The Prodigy Fanboy – Liam Howlett Keith Flint & Maxim.

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?

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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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Ruisrock 2011

Our good friend from our community here on Fanboy Tommi Kolehmainen has attended and reviewed the Ruisrock Festival in Finland.

It’s a great read. Enjoy it guys. Big thanks to Tommi for reviewing the gig for us!

Tommi: Here’s a detailed review of my second time experiencing The Prodigy live and the whole trip overall. It’s pretty long (yeah I got a little excited with the details) but I hope you enjoy the read! ;)

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Keith slamming it in Finland

It’s not only Liam who wrote a blog about the gig in Finland last night: Keith took on blogging about it as well. He really enjoyed “slamming it in Finland” as he entitled his blog entry on his web site teamtractioncontrol.com. He also talks about playing the first festival gig there since 1997. Read the blog here:

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Maxim and Liam rocking in Finland

Liam talks about the gig in Finland last night and about the experience he made there concerning the daylight. Read his blog here:

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Flinty (Photo: Paul Dugdale)

Keith seems to be still buzzing because of the latest gigs the band had in Romania and Greece. It’s good to see him enjoying it after having no gigs for a couple of weeks. It’s also great he blogged about the gigs over at his web site teamtractioncontrol.com. Here is what he wrote:

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