With a decade of beat-based innovation and 8 millions albums sold, The Chemical Brother return with their fifth studio album, Push The Button featuring contributions by Q-Tip, Kele Okereke from Bloc Party and The Magic Numbers.

Tom Rowlands and Ed Simmons met while taking the same history course at Manchester University and shared an eclectic taste in music that encompassed The Smiths, Public Enemy, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Kraftwerk. They began to sample Manchester's club scene just as the Madchester scene took off.

Acts like the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses were combining club beats with rock & roll music to create a classic hybrid of pop music. The Chemical Brothers were big fans of Balearic, a blend of early house music, Italian disco, jazz, funk, Northern soul, hip-hop and indie dance music developed in Ibiza and brought back to clubs in Manchester and London.

Rowland and Simons began DJing at the Manchester Club, Naked Under Leather in 1991 under the moniker, The Dust Brothers and proved to be very popular with the Manchester club scene. When they tried to recreate their sound in the studio, they emerged with "Song to the Siren", a track the ingeniously mixed a sample of the Meat Beat Manifesto with This Mortal Coil's rendition of the famous Tim Buckley song.

The single was released on the Junior Boy's Own Records label and the exposure got the boys work remixing Primal Scream, The Prodigy and The Charlatans. Returning the complement to The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, The Chemical Brothers began introducing classic indie rock samples into dance music.

The Dust Brothers were forced to change their name to The Chemical Brothers because of legal complications with the American production team, The Dust Brothers. In 1995, The Chemical Brothers released their debut album, Exit Planet Dust with vocal performances from Beth Orton and Timothy Burgess.

For their next album, Dig Your Own Hole Noel Gallagher guested on vocals on a track called "Setting Sun", a homage to one of The Chemical Brothers favourite songs, The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows". The Surrender album features tracks like "Hey Boy Hey Girl", "Got Glint" and "Music: Response" and brought the pair's eclectic closer to the straight-up, house feel of acts like Daft Punk and Armand Van Helden.

Ready to rock the house, The Chemical Brothers play The Point on the 16th.

The Chemical Brothers
The Point
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Time: 8pm
Ticket: €38

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.ie.

The Point
North Wall Quay,
East Link Bridge,
Dublin 1.
Tel: + 353 (0) 1 8363633