It was said that he had become a lawyer in Detroit. That’s what Daniel Miller, head of the British Mute label, once said in an interview with the Standard. Then once more it was said that he was a postman. Simon Bonney grins when he hears that. He knows the rumors regarding himself, maybe he enjoys them a little. Still, he has to disappoint. “No, I never brought the mail, nor did I become a lawyer.”