Superstar DJ/ rave veterans the Chemical Brothers stressed they’ve deliberately avoided copying new rave for their new album �?We Are The Night’, this week, telling Mixmag to do so would be �?pointless’.

“I’ve been to a few new rave nights; it’s very like early acid house,” Ed Chemical explained, “There are about twelve big records that people go mad to. You put one on and everyone goes mad then there is a bit of a lull until �?Standing In The Way Of Control’ comes back on,” he said.

NME, however, suggested the pair have been �?lucky that new rave’s brightest kids have allowed them to ride their fluoro coat-tails back into relevance’ in a typically scathing review bemoaning their �?plodding’ past.

“’All Rights Reversed’, the Chems’ collaboration with Klaxons, saves ‘We Are The Night’ from sounding like it’s still stuck in the mid-’90s and with Willy Mason and Midlake cropping up, Tom and Ed have again found just enough cool mates to save them from a general feeling of naffness,” they scoffed.

�?Standing In The Way Of Control’ Gossip singer Beth Ditto, meanwhile, addressed more weighty concerns in the Metro newspaper, musing about her ideal perfect day.

“If I could do just one thing for 24 hours, it would be to have sex, . . . or sew,” she revealed, “Or have sex while sewing. Or sew an outfit to have sex in,” she added.

The Chemical Brothers’ new album We Are The Night is out now on Virgin (and in more Gossip news, London scenesters No Bra have just been announced as support act for the Gossip’s entire UK tour, kicking off in September).