glad i couldnt make it to the gig...reading all this shit is disappointing...i am sure the band had the safety of the fans as their utmost priority... thankfully no one was killed or else the band would have taken a lot more shit...it is the responsibility of the organizer for the safety of the fans....bands perform

lot of negative comments in this thread...if this gig has turned you off the prodigy then see ya...i saw them at sziget last night and it was a proper prodigy gig...SAFE...lots of interaction including going out in to the audience...i have seen prodigy in 9 different countries and i have never seen anything like what was described here...maybe is not the band eh?

Fella, Yes i know, you want your holy woodstock is the best festival on earth, but when prodigy starts playin there where never never ever over 70k people in front or around that stage! c'mon fella! put down your pink glasses! compare the video with MK videos! never ever ! believe me! good gig, nice festival, but the numbers there around the press are just stuipid and wrong!

700 000 people is actually impossible to any concert by any artists in my opinion.
+ the press never says the truth about such things.
+ red square had 150 000 and sorry woodstock doesnt seem to have not even the same amount of crowd. or maybe people in poland are dwarves

lol

you weren't there but because you are prodigy fanboy you will just say that MK was bigger. i just tried to prove you that you're wrong and what? you can count amount of people from some videos/photos. congrats! maybe take off your prodigy-branded pink glasses?

another specialist in counting number of people by watching a photo/video?

there were 1 000 000 ppl at sziget. i was there. ppl were floating even on top of danube to see the show. they were like small jesuses. dont tell me its impossible, cause even in best case u only saw some photos and videos. and ur not a specialist, right?

no offense, but its just my opinion that i find it impossible that so many ppl were there. i cant imagine it would work anyhow. what big a place should be for 700 000 ppl? how they solve the audiance? like how someone in the very back hear the music? stuffs like that u know.
but as i dont have any will to argue on such little things, i tell u one thing. were u there? yeah? was it good? yeah? then fucking fine! im great u had a good time, like i did at sziget.

@Chaosu
you are so stuipid, cant believe it!
I was there you joker !!! and the number of audience were around 50-60k people at saturday night! maybe you drunked to much of the mud water! how ever, 60.000 or 700.000 in your eye oO, it wasnt bigger than Rock am Ring gig ! so what !?

damn why I'm still writing to you !? fuck up!!!!!

@ ©@rm4g3dd0n
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Of course those ~700k numbers are total for 3 (or even more) days and lot of people left on sunday morning (and there are some locals too, who just walk around).

@Montana
Ok, sorry, I saw you commenting on the gig before. I forgot that you were there. I dont know where you were standing but unless you were on hill that is over 200m away from stage you perhaps don't realise that people were not only in front of stage on designed area but also after the asphalt road where tents/shops started. Also, left of stage was full where were beer stands. People couldn't go any closer, it was extremally packed (I know because I tried to get in, from the east side to the west, just before the gig) and man, believe me, I would bet my money on official reports (not those we know, the ones that would be fully truth) because I've been in 40k and 60k crowds before and it wasn't one of these.

PS. http://www.helloween.org/home/215-hello ... areer.html they had no problems admitting it was their biggest gig to date, like many other bands. And what Liam admitted after the show? That he's playing for 25 years... and organisers ego is big.

liam said the organizer's ego was big because he started moaning like a bitch after the gig to everybody that prodigy fucked his festival. which they didn;t. he also called them unprofesional and that they don't care about safety. wich is bullshit. they did played tons of festivals around the world.and now on this one they are called this and that because they wanted some fences and bassically wanted the same rules to be applied like the ones at the other festivals.some of them,the biggest in the world,in terms of size and organizing. to wich shitty owsiak agreed and then started to bullshit them on site. he should of explained to the manager of the band from the start before the signing of the contract exactly what the deal is and what type of festival it is.and make a contract with those terms.

this whole incident is because of owsiak's ego. after the show had ended he should of shut the fuck up and resolved things quietly like profesional people do. or better if he wasn't happy about the fences he shouldn't have let prodigy on stage. but no,he signed the contract,changed the terms after the band arrived on site,then after the show ended he started moaning and turned the crowd against the boys. this is very,very unprofesional. like a little spoiled kid

now we have a great gig, great festival,with a big mouth organizer.because of this we argue if the festival is important enough? how many people were there in total,or that night? this whole incident and the discussion after it is stupid beyond belief. we even started to insult eachother. close this thread already.only big ego and pride here

Dear PinHead.
Where did you read organisers accusations of Prodigy being unprofessional etc? I am to this day surprised that Prodigy made this official statement. I know Mr Owsiak was saying some things abour Prodigy from stage, but those were far from any false informations or offending anybody.

1. after the show he said that now the real band will play, supported by The Prodigy - i don't agree with this one obviously but the fact that he comes on stage and comments on performances is not sign of being unproffesional or spoiled or angry - he does that always and this is how this festival goes! So what he did, said that the next band is great and btw. they can say that The Prodigy supported them (which I read as a little joke, not bad manners).

2. early before the gig, he told about barriers being transported here and they are negotiating, that they will show how crowds reacts in action (later when gigs will start) and maybe The Prodigy will change their mind. and he was saying something like that between every band later. the later it was, he stopped saying that "maybe they will change their minds" and started saying "but it's ok, show them how great you (crowd) are and act like theres no fence"

3. 1 band before the gig he was on stage to tell people that they have to move back. this was probably the most rude moment, because he was saying: "the band that name i won't tell now is watching us, they requested barriers, ok we will put barriers now, please show your understanding, we will fulfill all their requirements now and show them that we can have fun safely anyway". which was kind of rude (decide yourself how much) because he was talking about someone who was listening but couldn't understand.

and I also read on the net that he was angry and unprofessional, but I saw him angry once. he was saying, just before band was going on stage that they won't play because their broke an agreement. he was angry and was really against. the band did play and after the show he was saying "no more of them here". but this time, i thought he is calm and he tries to calm us, because when people heard "barriers" they started being very negative. he was repeating "we will show them how great crowd you can be" etc.

now, after I told you that, please let me know where he is:
-moaning like a bitch after the gig to everybody that prodigy fucked his festival
-calling them unprofesional and that they don't care about safety

so, now you said:
"after the show had ended he should of shut the fuck up and resolved things quietly like profesional people do"
and I agree, but the point is, the first shitting here comes from prodigys manager with some official statement! wtf! man I can see that even organiser is confused. sure Prodigys manager don't understand Polish but what they told him was either very rought (and not objective) translation or he is the one that can't act professional.

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And to remind one thing, Organiser and Prodigy management weren't talking directly - there was middleman, renomed label and concert agency - Mystic Productions and he signed the Prodigy. Read previours paragraph now, so either Prodigys management started all of this or...

...and assume Mystic Productions haven't told Owsiak the real requirements. They obviously couldn't get "no barriers" in contract but wanted the gig, it's prestige (and money) for them too. So yes it's partially Mr Owsiak fault that he didn't know the contract, but someone cheated on him too, right? And now we get this official statement (God know why in the first place) and theres Mystic Production logo all over there. Someone made a good deal, screwing one side?
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I will tell you what will be the next step from organisers side. None. Why? They don't get why all that issue, they made they little statement already and they don't have to care. Why? They got lots of bands from all over the world who will confirm - festival is well organised and safe - and I'm sure they will have no problems in booking artists in future. I saw UK media "waiting for organisers official statement", because for them it seems like The Prodigy are right but they want to know the full story but I doubt they will make any statements. They don't have to and I think that anyway, The Prodigy did their statement mostly because they were told wrong by someone. Mr Owsiak was unhappy with barriers, maybe called them "starts" in a bad meaning, but he also said there on festival on stage, and later too, that they are great band and professional and that he respects them. EOT

more please, more

why try harder?!

they not a punks, they just a cunts!

You talkin to them they're probably drunk :D :D :D