“The ‘nerd’ tag rather follows us around, though I quite like the fact that we don’t fit into someone else’s idea of what a dance musician should be,” Rowlands remarks. “It was never about us, anyway; we never wanted to be rock stars. We’re happy for the music to be bigger than us.”Still, it [...]
“The ‘nerd’ tag rather follows us around, though I quite like the fact that we don’t fit into someone else’s idea of what a dance musician should be,” Rowlands remarks. “It was never about us, anyway; we never wanted to be rock stars. We’re happy for the music to be bigger than us.”Still, it must be a relief, I suggest, that they have managed to remain anonymous. Their field of study quickly became a source of mirth among critics in the early years, who struggled to take these mild-mannered, middle-class boys seriously.
Even now, Rowlands and Simons admit they have something of an image problem. Now Simons and Rowlands have sold almost seven million albums and had 13 chart hits in the UK, two of them No 1s. They also have the distinction of being the only British dance act ever to win a Grammy, with the 1998 single “Block Rockin’ Beats”. Their live performances, as popular in Melbourne as in Manchester, have gathered near-mythical status – their show at Glastonbury in 2000 amassed the biggest audience in the festival’s history.The pair met in 1989 at Manchester University while attending a lecture on medieval literature. It’s probably a result of all that time spent indoors realigning his hard drive that Simons could easily pass for a computer salesman or a schoolteacher – almost anything, in fact, except one half of a world-famous dance duo. Rowlands, who has finally abandoned his long indie-kid tresses in favour of a more sensible crop, is at least vaguely recognisable in his trademark tinted specs, though he, too, retains the look of someone who could do with getting out more. She said under the plans people who wished to buy the homes had to meet a strict criteria such as their employment status and location.She said the average house price in the region was about £240,000..
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