Simian (band)

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Simian are an English electro-rock band, best-known for their song "La Breeze", which was featured in the Peugeot 1007 commercial. The members are Simon William Lord, James Ellis Ford, Alex MacNaghten & James Anthony Shaw. Their second album "We are your Friends" was produced by the legendary Brian Eno.

The band split up in 2005 with James Ford and Shaw forming a splinter group Simian Mobile Disco. The new group is more dance oriented and are in demand as remixers. In 2006, a single called "We Are Your Friends" was released on a reactivated Virgin label called Ten Records. This single was credited to Justice vs. Simian and started life as a submission by the French electro outfit Justice in a remix competition. The video for the single won best video at the MTV Europe video Awards 2006. Kanye West crashed into stage when the award was being presented to Justice and Simian, saying he should have won the prize.

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"We Are Your Friends" started life as the song 'Never Be Alone', which was first released as a single in 2002.
Justice are Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé.
"We are your friends" has its own video, featuring people having being set up whilst in their drunken sleep at the end of a party. The first part of the video shows the people sleeping in the complex contraptions of objects that have been set up around them. The second part starts when they all wake up suddenly.