http://theprodigy.com/latest-news/512-liamhowlett-blog finally post from band

damn liam says same thing as i before, bout owsiak`s ego.

never consider it could be liams ego? then, posting like this.. about festival organizer's EGO is quite pathetic and kiddo

-...when they demanded barriers? It was writen in their contract, I'm not saying it wasn't. And that was the only band that had this written in contract, and we were trying to convince them and said "listen, you will see when you arrive here that barriers are not necessery. our middleman [Mystic Production as we just read in press release] confirmed that, when talking with them, that the band agreed.
-but not on paper
-yes, it wasn't written anywhere. but to finish that [finish his thought?], because barriers were delivered. so [prodigy] crew arrived the day before. they saw the gigs. Helloween, where there was massive crowd in front of stage. this is somehow tested [confirmed, verified]. it's not random logistics, like unless something bad happens... when people see 4m high wall in front of them, wall of stage, they do have to come back to see anything, because they reached end. they won't see a thing there. we are even telling them that if they are exhausted during the gig they can sit right there under the stage wall. because when you are there you can't even see a screen, nothing. because of that people [there] are naturally walking away [from the crowd] and all gigs, even of very hard music, Papa Roach, or various metal bands had no reasons to change those rules. these rules were formed in years and when we present festivals summary to officials [government etc.] they also accept that: it's going to be this way.
Someone from Prodigy [crew] came, looked at that and said "ok, i see, this is different ideology", [especially] when he saw that this massive crowd can escape [there in front] so easily. 12 hours before the gig he changed his mind, and i got this evening call, people are already having fun [on gigs] and i already know that i have to organise barriers. these were special barriers, we didn't have ones like that [ready]. they are special and we had to get them from Gdansk [or Tczew, like we have been told on festivals site, both cities about 350-375km away] and they arrived.

haha it's in every polish newspapers

at the gig there were around 60.000 people, maximum 700.000 is just a joke, it is the number for 3 days not for this one gig!! MK was bigger!

The Prodigy: no wrong done at Polish festival


The Prodigy have been accused – falsely - of endangering health and safety at their performance at Poland’s Woodstock festival a few days ago by the festivals organiser and promoter, Mr Owsiak. The festival is set up as a charity fundraiser event for the local area.

He made false accusations against The Prodigy and their production crew for their alleged unsafe and unprofessional practices following their performance on the Saturday night of the festival. It comes to light after the bands production manager, Mr Karel Hamm, informed the band that no safety barriers had been placed in front of the stage, of which a reported 670,000 people were in spectacle of.

A section ofthe statement - provided on the groups official website reads: As the biggest open air European festival with a 500,000 capacity - the provision of safety barriers is acknowledged as an essential practice at all festivals in Europe and indeed the world, and NOT a demand from the band to protect themselves. We want to protect Polish lives. The safety barrier was insisted on by the bands’ manager John Fairs to protect the crowd; to allow access of security and medical staff to the fans, who were pulling people out and over the barrier when they had exhaustion etc, also to allow water to be given to the audience, including the fireman’s hose that was cooling the crowd - none of this would have been possible with the crowd directly in front of the stage without a safety barrier to protect them. Without this Mr Owsiak – and his event – would have been putting the crowd at huge risk, especially given the subsequent promoters report of 670,000 people in attendance. In reality, an event of this size should and must have several barrier lines. Woodstock is clearly in breach of the No 1 goal of The European Festival Association – YOUROPE – of which they are a member.

Also brought into question was The Prodigy's method of travelling to and from the festival - with a police escort (besides other things), and their subsequent departure from the festival immediately after their set finished. This they say is due to congestion rather than due to several injuries being cause which has already been insinuated at in the media.

Check below for a fan made video of the event fromWiper666. The Prodigy categorically deny any malpractice or wrong-doing. The full statement can be read at http://theprodigy.com/latest-news/511-statement