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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

nterview with The Prodigy - Warrior’s Dance Festival at Milton Keynes Bowl


To be honest I was uncomfortable about doing the gig in the first place you know. We never wanted to be like the type of band playing stadiums or whatever. We still love to play Brixton, that’s what we’re about. But people just kept saying we should do it and I was like ‘we will only do it as our own festival, not a Prodigy gig with a support act.’ So we put together a good line up of bands and djs ,a cool small second stage ,we even had a tattoo tent doing ant logos … it was a celebration of twenty years. We wanted to put on a proper day and night for the people like knebworth oasis .

“In a way it was a bit of an accident really. There was never a masterplan to it. We wanted to do something special to round off the whole Invaders time. You know, that album was a great thing for us. It brought out all of the old skool fans again and took us to a brand new generation of fans. So we wanted to do something pretty special to leave our mark .We chose Milton Keynes Bowl in the end ‘cos it reminded us of goin to an old rave , a big green field , it had that energy to it.

The Prodigy - Breathe


Interview with The Prodigy


Without a doubt one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen was the rave/electro/punk onslaught that is The Prodigy a few years ago at Coachella. They’re back in the US to promote their new record Invaders Must Die, and I had a chance to interview founder/producer/lead songwriter Liam Howlett about the band’s creative process:
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Baron von Luxxury: For the new album, I understand that you decided to write in a completely different way, but then ended up throwing everything out and starting again from scratch.

The Prodigy - Firestarter



The Prodigy



Biography

The Prodigy are an  music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990, in Braintree, Essex, United Kingdom. They have sold over 20 million records worldwide, which is virtually unequaled in dance music history.

Their music consists of various styles ranging from  and  in the early  to and  with  vocal elements in later times. The current band members includeLiam Howlett (composer/keyboards), Keith Flint (dancer/vocalist) and Maxim (MC/vocalist).

LEEROY THORNHILL (dancer/occasional live keyboards) was a member of the band from 1990 to 2000, as well was a female dancer/vocalist called Sharky who left the band during their early period.