The Prodigy Fanboy – Liam Howlett Keith Flint & Maxim Reality.

Skrillex

UPDATE: I can now confirm, that Skrillex is a special guest for Warriors Dance Festival. It was confirmed by The Prodigy via their newsletter.

Now don’t take our word for it. Also this is not confirmed by The Prodigy.

However, over at metalserbia.com. The current lineup for the 3rd Warriors Dance Festival is as follows:

The Prodigy, Skrillex, Jet, rhythm Nereda, Eyesburn, Lollobrigida, Petrol, Dreddup & Hype.

I personally have never heard about the other groups. Also, I think Skrillex is a highly possible act for Warriors Dance Festival.

Credit goes out to “Warrior’s Dance Festival Serbia” for the heads-up via Fanboy Facebook.

Zane Lowe

Liam & Keith did an interview with Zane Lowe from Radio 1, discussing plans for 2012.

Topics covered: Download Festival & new tracks being played. The location & date of Warriors Dance Festival which we reported earlier. New record to be out between Warriors Dance Festival & end of the year. This is a relief, no dubstep! Also, album title and so on.

It’s a great quick interview guys, listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9alM9Mng8

Credit goes out to luKas for the recording.

Good times!

The Prodigy Warriors Dance Festival Logo

Information about the 3rd Warriors Dance Festival has been leaked a little early. Just before Liam & Keith sit down with Zane Lowe later today.

According to skiddle.com:

The Prodigy are proud to present the next instalment of their ‘Warrior’s Dance Festival’ at Kalemegdan Fortess in Belgrade on September 15th 2012.

Following the success of the inaugural event at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo in 2009 to the dizzy heights and rave reviews of last year’s second extravaganza at Milton Keynes Bowl, UK, the foundations have firmly been set to take the experience to Eastern Europe and to raise the bar once more for the Serbian people. Warrior’s Dance Festival, Serbia has been curated by The Prodigy and will feature an eclectic and innovative bill based around a music policy favouring heavy beats and guitars. The festival promises to provide a spectrum of entertainment and performances across three stages featuring international guests to be announced.

Credit: Evans for the heads-up & for the link on Brainkiller.

3rd Milton Keynes Festival

If you head over to the Warriors Dance Festival website. You will find a graphic showing 3 boxes.

The first box has the Japanese flag, the 2nd has the English flag. The 3rd, is empty!

So this looks like a teaser, that there will be a 3rd Warriors Dance Festival.

Who will be the lucky country? I’m hoping for Australia!

Credit goes out to Harbinger from Brainkiller.

Liam Howlett AONO

Hello Fanboys, in the lates blog post by the boys. They announced a new tour date for 2012 and which will be the only UK date that year, Download Festival.

The boys did confirm that new songs will be played at the festival! This is going to be a big one, the only UK gig for 2012? Damn all of Prodigy fans will be there!

However, also in the blog post. Came even better news. New album is due later 2012! I was not expecting that! I would have guessed early 2013.

Anyhow, here is the blog post in it’s entirety:
we have chosen to headline download festival as our only uk festival show next year and will be playin some new songs for the first time from our next album due later 2012 …….. see you there Liam, Keef & Maxim

The Prodigy will headline the main stage on Friday 8th June. Tickets available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk

Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Too many too mention.

UPDATE: James Malley from our Facebook Page noticed first that the boys do say Festival. That doesn’t mean they won’t be doing any actual gigs on their own in the UK. However don’t take our word for it. If you can get Download Festival tickets, get them. Then wait and see if anything else gets announced in the near future.

São Paulo, Brazil

The dark era has begun! The boys have updated their official gigs page with a new date:

10th Dec – XXXperience Festival – São Paulo, Brazil

You Brazil fans are lucky. Hopefully we hear some new beats! Should be good. What do you guys think? New beats or same set list?

Tickets / Info

Big Day Out

Performances by the Prodigy and later Fatboy Slim convinced organisers that the Boiler Room needed more space. “There wouldn’t be a Boiler Room without the Prodigy,” recalls Ben Suthers, producer of The Boiler Room since 1999. Liam Howlett’s electronic punks played a monster set in the Gold Coast shed in 1996. It was so hot that frontman Keith Flint was put on a saline drip after the performance.

Until the late ‘90s, the scene of that Prodigy performance was housed in what has become the site storeroom. Now, the Boiler Room is the largest covered venue on site, and it attracts a regular crowd of some 12,000-15,000. When the Prodigy closed the 2009 BDO, an estimated 30,000 party-goers squeezed under the tent.

The Prodigy almost took BDO down a different path. In the late ‘90s, the BDO organisers decided it was entirely possible to take an act like the Prodigy and build a dance music festival around it. A bespoke dance-oriented fest Starbait was pencilled in for 1998, but the shows didn’t get off the ground. When the BDO returned from its 1998 hiatus, the Boiler Room had become a tent in all markets except Sydney.

Credit goes out to our Fanboy Facebook member Ben Bloxsome for the find.

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The Prodigy Woodstock

The Prodigy finished up at Woodstock Festival, Poland over the weekend. I have heard a lot of mix reviews about this gig.. The good being obviously an awesome show by the boys. Others complained about the crowd, especially if you were up front on the fence.

Also, I cannot confirm this. Apparently the boys didn’t want Woodstock organizes to record the show. So The Prodigy will not be on the Woodstock DVD.

Anyhow, YouTube member Wiper666 has uploaded great footage of the gig. Enjoy!

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Warrior's Dance Festival

Thomas from our Facebook Community has looked back and blogged about his Warriors Dance Festival experience, one year on.

It’s a great lengthy read about the entire day at the event. So kick back with a few snacks ;)

Enjoy the read guys!

Credit: Thomas Richards Blog

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Keith on the road

Keith seems to be enjoying the blogging and tweeting a lot. He just wrote another one which is up on his web site teamtractioncontrol.com. The blog is about their gig at the Hultsfred festival in Sweden, the shit weather causing a lack of “traction control” on stage, being mentioned on Eurosport and Keith’s journey to Pembrey. You can also find photos from the band’s first visit at the “wet but rockin” Hultsfred festival since 1997 over at theprodigy.com.

Read the full blog here:

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