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It’s Joe Ransom and I‘m at Gatecrasher 2008 backstage with the mighty prodigy how you doing guys?
All that that’s into a good start, yeah a buildup, good buildup
Good, you just got here what’s your first impressions at the festival?
Its windy innit, shit -Its pretty windy yeah- They were saying like, if it gets any more windy we wouldn’t be able to put all our stuff up so.. -Start playing stuff offstage- Eddie Temple Morris is rocking it though isn’t he yeah..He’s getting it going yeah, the crowd, he’s getting it going
He’s awesome, he’s awesome, he’s great yeah..
So is this your first big event of the year?
First big event we did like two warm up dates last weekend didn’t we –yeah- to prepare for this, but this is like where it starts uknowwatamean? Playing a few new tunes its gonna kick it off, its gonna be good man –cant wait man, uknowwatamean, were buzzing-
Nice, And you guys now have a musical career spanning years, and I’ve been walking around talking to kids, and they’re all coming to see you guys. How do you think, and why do you think your music is still touching younger kids coming through this scene?
We’ll see if it does later, it might not *laughs* but yeah I don’t know man, makes me feel old.. but it seems to, at the moment, it seems to, like done a full circle and we, I don’t think we’ve ever kind of changed what we’re all about, uknowwatamean.. We’ve kind of stayed true to what we do, all the way through, and I don’t know, it seems like at the moment it’s like kind of done like that *draws a circle* Like a lot of bands been inspired by more electronic music, dance music again which is really good.. -also u know we still maintain, its still about the energy for us u know, and kids can obviously appreciate the energy we give out so and I respect them for supporting us u know..-
And you’re also veterans of the performing scene now aswell u know, do you still enjoy it as much as you ever did getting up on stage and, u know, kicking out the tunes?
Oh yeah man absolutely, that’s what it’s, uknow, that’s what its all about for us, uknow, and that’s what the music is written for, uknow, to get out there and bang it so and, uknow it just umm.. it completes the whole thing for us uknow..
Yeah.. and you have so many tracks I mean, how do you put up a tracklist for such a short show?
Yeah.. umm.. we kind of, there’s a few classics that u gotta play really but its what you do to them and we try to do slightly different versions and stuff like that, plus like I said we’ve got four new bits of music I think tonight, umm.. so now we’re starting its kind of , always changing -yeah- from this gig onwards, like each show might be a bit different uknow..
Isn’t this, uknow, its over the last 17 years we’ve always rotested the tracks –is it that long?- Yeah its that long man *laughs* dam, I’m expecting somekind of retirement gigs soon like a pent or something, yeah, *laughs* yeah.. we’ve got a garage club waiting for you –oh yeah ok, nice- yeah don’t worry about it man, we’re gonna hook you up man
That’s it, and what have you guys got coming up for the rest of the year?
Umm.. we’ve got a lot of festivals, uknow, throughout Europe and obviously we’re doing the V Festival -yeah- and T in the Park. -And plus our record uknow, we’ve nearly finished our album really excited about it its sounding fucking great uknow, it’s the band, us, back together uknow, and its sounding really good uknow, it sounds really fresh and that’ll be out later in the year, unkow- Yeah, yeah.. its been a sort of like an exciting but natural process, uknow and, yeah we’re ready to bang it.. it feels right uknow, everything feels really right at the moment so -except for the wind- that’s it – Yeah except for the wind yeah, but it’ll never blow us down, blow us out, never blow our far out man *laughs*
And for the fans uknow.. what can the prodigy fans except from the show tonight?
Well I mean its like its -we’re not here to do wearny opera in one level uknow, we’re just here to take peoples heads off and that’s that, uknow, we cant do anything else..
Yeah.. it’s the same old story for us I’m afraid, we don’t come sort of like, and get a new sort of cabaret act out, uknow, we haven’t learned to joggle or fire breathe, or something like that, we just get out there and bang it uknowwatamean and that’s it
Well thanks so much for taking the time out to chat to us and good luck for the show tonight.
Nice, cool, thanks, cheers, wicked, nice, thanks
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