Pretty cool that they are showing TMMTH!

omen :D

Its most likely John Fairs, the tour manager. Fuck knows why he was on the setlist, maybe he signed it and bbc thought he was a song title or something lol

Right with regards to stage set-up Prodigy had all their own stuff/backdrop on stage (only band to get this all weekend from what I saw) ...basically they had the Invaders backdrop from the festivals/Academy shows last year with the Invader lights in the air..also used some of the arena tour lighting for Omen Reprise...

They specifically asked Zane Lowe to do a 30min DJ set before they came on compared to having background music/videos being played and he was awesome as ever and tore the place to shreds hyping up the crowd at every available opportunity...

Came onstage bang on 8.30pm and started with the following -

IMD Intro
Worlds On Fire
Breathe / Breathe Dubstep

....Here's where the power cut happened...Liam was just getting into the dub version of Breathe when all the power suddenly went for no reason..they all had to leave the stage and were off for about 10-15mins (I think on the radio interview when in the car they said it was vibrations that caused a power switch or something (Blown generator apparently)...unless some idiot pulled the wrong plug out from somewhere..lol )

Back on they came with Maxim saying it wasn't them that caused it lol

Then played the following -

Omen

Warrior's Dance (Keith went nuts on this as u have seen on the TV by going along the whole barrier inciting the front few rows of the crowd)

Firestarter / Short Action Radar link compared to usual gigs

Run With The Wolves - F'ing Ferocious and full on as ever..crowd went mental for this down the front

Voodoo People (2008 Remix) - same as usual

no encore basically Keith & Maxim went off stage for a breather..Liam stayed on the stage with the other 2 -

Omen Reprise (Used some of the lighting from Arena tour and worked a treat - was more a scaled down lighting version of how it was done on the UK Arena tour)

Invaders Must Die - Liam played a wicked repetitive beat towards the end of this (you've prob heard this on Radio...sounded wicked)

Diesel Power / Blow Your Mind - FK me the bass on this one!!! my ears are still shuddering from it...went straight into -

Smack My Bitch Up - Again the bass on this was f'ing awesome

Take Me To The Hospital - fantastic as ever

Out Of Space - ended it just after Liam cut the sound and got the whole crowd to sing it compared to the festivals last year where they carried on with it after bringing the sound back

Full respect have to say to the guys for not letting the power cut effect them...they sounded on great form on both the TV and Radio interview and took it in their stride..full respect to Liam as well for just going straight back into it after the power failure as well

Saw some of it on TV, not sure what to make of the crowd. Sort of good for a free music festival, but sort of bad compared to usual?...

I have recorded from the satellite the interview and 45min set from radio1 (mp2 at 192kbps.

Omen was played on BBCi, not in the radio1 set.

I will upload tomorrow as soon as possible.

Omen was amazing.

Can't see why anyone is complaining about The Prodigy doing this gig. A good portion of the live set played on the radio and some shown on the TV. Good promotion, helps the album and 'Warrior's Dance', gets a new audience who may not have considered going to see The Prodigy before but will now and loads of plays on BBC TV and Radio 1.

Well yeah it wasn't the usual type of audience etc..and yes were loads of kids who didn't know what to expect...I was down the front and it went off big time where I was...Also don't forget The Prodigy were only added/confirmed to play after the registration/application for free tickets had closed..so when people saw the line-up...I guess a lot of the applications were done by people who liked stuff like Lily Allen, Akon, etc...but remember its Radio 1 and its free....over 350,000 people applied for tickets on either the Saturday or the Sunday...as soon as you have a free event..people will apply for tickets regardless of who is playing

Btw the songs shown on TV in this order were Breathe, Warriors Dance, Firestarter, about half of Invaders Must Die, Take Me To The Hospital and Omen...

Red button feed?

Yeah. They played Breathe, Warriors Dance and Firestarter on BBC Three and then later on the red button they played them again but with all those other tracks I mentioned afterwards as well. The annoying thing is they cut the swearing out of it all entirely. It was especially noticable in Warriors Dance. No idea why they wouldn't show swearing on TV at that time...

Take Me To The Hospital performance was sweet, Maxim even sung along to the chipmunk vocals. I still couldn't make out was was being sung though ...

Ahhh cool lol

Gonna check that out now then!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TtdTA1NQHs

lol @ Liam trying to catch an ear defender in his mouth ...

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Nice review ANDREWL, thanks.