The Prodigy Fanboy – Liam Howlett Keith Flint & Maxim.

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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The Prodigy Play AWOL & DOGBITE at Bratislava Slovakia : Setlist

Update:

G’day guys, just a few little neat updates. First, the updated version of AWOL & Dogbite. Also, new shirts from the gig! Hopefully they make the it to the online store soon!

Thanks to Cibo for the picture and thanks to everyone who sent in the videos via Fanboy Facebook & Contact.

Original:

The boys have wrapped their gig in Bratislava, Slovakia! They dropped AWOL and DOGBITE formally known as Bring The Noise. The following info was sent in by Kenjah via Fanboy Contact. I have also attached a video from the gig last night.

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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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Happy Birthday Maxim Reality

G’day fellow Fanboys! Finally back from vacation. Had a nice holiday break!

Didn’t check my email at all and ended up with just over 200 messages and also missed some Prodigy news. Last night I caught up with some news and have yet to contact everyone who has contacted us via Contact Form, Facebook and Twitter. I will do so when I can.

Anyhow, the boys are back on tour in about a months time. Quite a few new tour dates have been announced and you can checkout the gig list here. Seems to be Europe for now. Also most likely the boys will be unleashing new beats! Good times :)

Anyone who is heading out to the upcoming gigs, feel free to send us your review, videos, pictures, audio and so on.

Most important, our favourite MC turned 45 years old on March 21st!

Maxim, we know you’ll be reading this mate. So The Prodigy Fanboy community, MartinProdigy, ET and I wish you a happy birthday. Hope you had a great day mate!

I have no idea how you do it, you put your voice out at every gig and always deliver! We love your vibe! and appreciated it very much.

I will never forget the first words I heard you say live “Where the fuck is Melbourne!” Haha.

Sonne Mond Sterne Festival

This news is yet to be confirmed on the Official The Prodigy Website. However if you head over to sonnemondsterne.de you’ll notice the boys are set to headline the festival.

So hopefully we’ll be hearing some of the new beats over in Germany, lucky bustards!

Other acts at the festival include Fatboy Slim, Skillex and so on.

Credit goes out to @ProdigyNet for the heads up.

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.

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.

Leeroy

Hey Fanboys, I just watched this gig in full. What an amazing gig! Fantastic set-list as well. Phoenix Festival 1996.

It’s so good to see Leeroy on the stage. There are a few early Fat of the Land tracks in here. Plus Skylined live! One of my all time favorites. Fans dancing on stage with Leeroy to No Good. I wish the boys still did this!

The gig finishes with Gabba, what an amazing track! Anyhow, watch it for yourselves guys. Here is the set-list, enjoy:

01. Voodoo People
02. Fill / Breathe
03. Poison
04. Funky Shit
05. Weather Experience Fill / Their Law
06. Blow Your Mind
07. Skylined
08. It’s My Own Secret Technique Fill / Firestarter
09. Mindfields
10. Fill / No Good (Start The Dance)
11. Gabba

Credit: Heads-up from EveryTimer_47 from the Official Forums & credit to burtonCONCERTS for the YouTube upload.

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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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