The Prodigy Fanboy – Liam Howlett Keith Flint & Maxim.

The Prodigy Experience

The Prodigy’s first LP, Experience, hit shelves on XL in the centre of the rave scene that spawned the label. It was a triumph, with singles such as Charly, Out Of Space and Everybody In The Place beginning to trouble the mainstream. But the group’s second effort was a more driven, aggressive beast.

Music For The Jilted Generation railed against the corporate mutation of the rave movement. It turned the scene on its head, and became both Howlett and XL’s first mega-hit.

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Liam Howlett

Damn, so does this mean no Kool Keith on the next record?

The Prodigy’s mainman Liam Howlett has spoken about his plans for the band’s new album.

Howlett, who revealed earlier this week that the Essex stadium fillers’ new record has been given the working title ‘How To Steal A Jet Fighter’, told NME that he plans to avoid big-name collaborations on the band’s new LP.

Howlett, who has collaborated with the likes of Liam Gallagher, Dave Grohl and Juliette Lewis on previous albums, has said that he wanted to work on collaborations with “people lower down the scale.”

Asked if there were any big name guests on the band’s new album, Howlett said: “Nothing well known at this stage. Maybe later down the line. I tend to try to work with people that are more lower down the scale, I’m bored of the big collaborations. Maybe on a production level there’s a few people I’m working with people lower down the scale.”

The multi-instrumentalist also spoke about the making of ‘How To Steal A Jet Fighter’ and said that his bandmates Keef Flint and Maxim had been much more involved in its creation. He also admitted that the band’s 2009 effort ‘Invaders Must Die’ might have benefited from their input.

Asked what the other members of The Prodigy were up to, Howlett said: “They’ve been in the studio with me. Even if they’re not working on lyrics every day, definitely a few days a week they’re come in, have a listen, talk about it. I made the mistake in the past, not the last record but before, where I delivered finished tracks. I think it would have been better with some input along the way.”

The Prodigy are expected to debut new songs during their headline slot at this summer’s Download Festival. They will top the bill at the event along with Metallica and Black Sabbath.

Credit: Andrea Prodigy from Fanboy Facebook. Source: NME.

Liam Howlett

So, Liam has a little neat interview with NME about the upcoming Download Festival. Which pretty much confirms a new track at Download to be dropped. However that could be AWOL or Dogbite. Also, the working album title is “How To Steal A Jet Fighter”.  Like the sound of the title? Let us know. Enjoy the interview!

Liam Howlett’s ready to go toe-to-toe with Sabbath

NME: Do you comfortable playing a metal festival like Download, Liam?

“Yeah man. Download, the fans, they’re not there to fuck about. People are into loud, uncompromising shit.”

Are you looking forward to seeing the likes of Metallica and Sabbath…?

“Nah. I won’t be staying. I won’t hang around.”

Will there be new songs?

“The idea is that we’ll turn up at Download playing some new shit. But playing festivals helps with the music. I’m best if you pull me offstage and throw me right in the studio, otherwise you’re not thinking about where the music is going to end up. I’m into the idea of sticking something out, just a track. Just something to remind people we’re still around. But nothing’s set in stone.”

How’s it sounding?

“We’re really excited about it. The last record was… kind of a party album, I guess. We were all happy to be back together again. But the best tunes on that album are the ones that have less of that. It’s definitely going heavier, darker. The title we’re working with is ‘How To Steal A Jet Fighter’. But that might change. Who knows?”

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Maxim

G’day guys! An interview by Kelly Lazarus with our man Maxim was posted online today by Metal Hammer.

Good times leading up to Download Festival and the rest of the tour which begins this month on the 27th! at the Aegon NTC Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia. Damn you guys are lucky! For more info on tour dates, check this link.

The interview is mainly about Download Festival and what the boys are going to bring.. Nice quick read, enjoy!

Credit goes out to evans from the Brainkiller crew.

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Plan B

UPDATE: You can now listen to the remix here.

Original Post: Plan B or Ben Drew, is a British rapper who is releasing an EP with a track called ill Manors with expected release date of 25th of March.

The EP includes The Prodigy Remix. Liam had been quite busy with the remixes lately!

No preview is available at the moment. However you can checkout the iTunes page here. Also, learn more about Plan B here.

Makes me wonder far into the boys are in the new record. Cannot wait until Download! Still expecting a AONO Part 2 for some reason, which is a good thing. AONO with Keith and Maxim? Hell yeah!

Thanks goes out to Andrea Prodigy for the heads-up via Fanboy Facebook.

Invaders Must Die

Now here is a track written during the Invaders Era with rapper Wiley.

However it got shelved as the boys wanted a band album. Read about that here.

Have a listen to the track here. Let us know what you think via comments or Facebook/Twitter.

In my opinion. I’m glad it didn’t make the Invaders LP. I don’t like the rapping.. Not to keep on the music as well. Doesn’t seem to have that Invaders vibe/sound that the album has. Maybe if we had an instrumental, might change my mind..

Had a lot of fans send this news in. Thanks! Credit goes out to Kubazz from the Brainkiller Crew, awesome job!

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!

Keith Flint

Rolling Stone Brazil have interview Keith Flint with the news post titled “Keith Flint of Prodigy, dubstep is the future of electronic music”.

Keith mentions Caspa and Skrillex, also aiming for a second half of 2012 new album release.

The interview is in Portuguese, got it in English using Google Translate. There may be a few errors in the process.

Credit goes out to ‘Nuno’ from Brainkiller.

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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.

The Prodigy Greece

Hello everyone, Paul Dugdale has yet again put together a neat video for the boys.

Thunder Dub in Greece. It’s a new style of video to go along with the dark era.. watch until end guys, the boys talk about new beats / new album.

Good times!

Enjoy!

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