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Fifer
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:43 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 2753Location: Amsterdam, NetherlandsJoined: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:00 pm
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New Blog From LH/Keef and Maxim.
Quote: We just wanted to thank everybody who came to the academy tour, it was good to drop some new tunes and the reaction to them was incredible. we ended up at brixton which for us was amazing - it was madness in there and a great last gig of the year.. played 'take me to the hospital' as the last song at brixton to give you a flavour for next year have a good xmas people. c u in australia liam......keef......maximspan.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; }
Fuck knows what they did with the end of the message.
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JimbQ
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:49 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 2862Location: Bristol, UKJoined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:58 pm
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they failed, thats what they did lol
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nucleartitan
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:59 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 2923Location: italyJoined: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:44 pm
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yes it's a funny end
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smitty
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:39 pm |
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PrivatePosts: 121Location: Braintree, EssexJoined: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:31 pm
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Fifer
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:17 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 2753Location: Amsterdam, NetherlandsJoined: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:00 pm
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Another pointless review. Why is everyone assuming that everyone forgot who the prodigy are?
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Quote: If aliens invaded us now, they would think they had landed in 1996. Noel Gallagher is taking potshots at Damon Albarn, and the Prodigy are playing to packed crowds. Liam Howlett's band of rave-rock nutters never actually split up - they just let their frontman make very disappointing music on his own - but have clearly been busy developing more muscles and tattoos over the past decade. MC Maxim Reality could be a demented, over-zealous foreman: "We're going to take the fuckin' roof down tonight!" Mohicanned rapper Keith Flint, meanwhile, resembles a cross between a rogue Cyberman and Charlie Drake. With Howlett ensconced in a stage set that's part Bladerunner, part Albert Steptoe's scrapyard, it's incredible that such preposterous anarchy on stage can produce such a thrilling, even dangerous racket.
The Prodigy haven't changed - they've just turned everything up and added enough new cusses to run up a national debt at the swear box. The new material returns to their mid-90s trademark of making a simple and ostensibly meaningless slogan seem terribly important and threatening. When Reality barks "the writing is on the wall", he isn't talking about graffiti in the toilets. Old era-defining tunes such as Their Law - originally a response to the criminal justice bill - seem timely amid the Greek riots.
In fact, none of it seems particularly nostalgic, partly because Pendulum and Justice have robbed the Prodigy's music blind and also because they're attracting audiences often young enough to call Keith Flint dad. When he dons what looks like a Butlins jacket daubed with the words "My dogs will kill you", he looks like a sociopathic redcoat. But when Flint twists his crazed visage into a thrillingly believable, pyromanic Firestarter, it feels as if the venue might literally burn down.
http://www.scenta.co.uk/music/news/cit/ ... rodigy.htm
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Chaosu
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:24 pm |
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MajorPosts: 735Location: PolandJoined: Wed May 23, 2007 12:08 pm
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It's crap. With recent tunes I got motivation to read books in english about Prodigy (only Electronic Punks got translated) and I can say just one thing which took place in the past with Prodigy - they/music will defend itself. They'll post good reviews after seeing good sales, but who cares?
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*PinHead*
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:02 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 3303Location: DoglandJoined: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:49 pm
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Scratchthesurface
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:20 pm |
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SergeantPosts: 437Location: GermanyJoined: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:22 pm
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For some weird reason i wasn't able to log in BK while i was in the UK. So, i just copied my review from Neko's, coz i'm a lazy fucker right now and catched up a really bad flu...
Ok, finally found a shabby open internetcafe to write my review.
First of all, gotta say, i woke up this morning after a very short nap, crying my eyes out , knowing everything is over for this year... Jeez, feeling so buzzed & sad at the same time! Getting mental! Hits me really deep, me thinks!
Friday/Saturday was my first time to experience Brixton - Fucking huge! What can i say : The boys set the place on fire!!! Great venue, amazing atmosphere, intense energy!
Tho, the smell/stench of the toilets wasnt funny at times...
The recent setlist is awsome! New trax banging so damn hard! Couldnt believe to hear that many of the new stuff live! I was probably grinning all the time! They are in a great shape atm, jumping & dancing all the way through! Pure adrenalin!
I really love the wicked xylophone in Omen & Comanche had some nice action with Maxim & Keith in it, reminds me of some kind of indian sundance! Oh well, i was into every damn tune anyways, still bumping!
The support on friday night was a bit meh. Fight Like Apes were just kinda noisy, not my cup of tea. Eddy Temple Morris did a nice job.
On Saturday it was better, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Zane Lowe before and afterwards Herve kept the crowd moving!
brb with part 2
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Herve played good old choons. Everybody In The Place, Your Love and some stuff from the XL Recordings - The First Chapters. Way In My Brain...
A nice way to end a buzzing night/morning!
So this was a hell of a weekend!
Still so excited, shivering and smiling! Cant wait for the new album, give it to me!
HUGE RESPECT TO THE PRODIGY!!!
Still making my old guts jump and giving me goosebumps!
Love you guys, you are already missed!
Hope to see you again next year!
BTW - Merry x-mas and a happy new year to all of you!
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Nicky Hayden
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:25 pm |
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CorporalPosts: 381Location: Madrid, SpainJoined: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:03 pm
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I don't know if this was posted before (sorry if it was), but after reading some shit (by the always ridiculous UK music media, how easy is to talk shit about Prodge, and how difficult is to call cunt to the king of the cunts Chris Martin) let's see a good positive review of the Birmingham show at the Telegraph:
"When the Prodigy finally left the stage, but before lights went up, Andy Williams's Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You played over the house sound system. It was perhaps the band reminding everyone that although they're snarling electronic punks, at another level it's all simply distilled showmanship filtered through a lot of sweaty dancing.
Earlier, when they played their sweary, rebel-rousing anthem Their Law, it was debatable who was dancing harder, the tattooed, perspiring MC/frontmen Keith Flint and Maxim Reality (real name: Keith Palmer), or the capacity crowd, who they constantly challenged to move faster and whoop louder.
It's easy to forget that, in the mid-Nineties, the Prodigy were one of the biggest bands in the world. Initially, they were a rave act, four Essex lads, one of whom, Liam Howlett had a knack for combining pounding beats with tasty riffs and memorable tunes. The other three (one member left in 2000) would dance and gurn, creating the live "Prodigy Experience", the very opposite of dance acts who stood po-faced in front of computers. Howlett now plays master of ceremonies, centre-stage with his machines, accompanied by a live band that gave the rock-flavoured Voodoo People the meaty riffing it demands.
His two protégés, meanwhile, have long since ceased to be just hype men and sang/shouted hits such as Breathe and Firestarter. Flint, mohawked and tattooed, barked out the lyrics to the latter between spraying the crowd with mouthfuls of water. Stripped to a vest, he was given to sudden bursts of frantic activity, while Reality simply prowled the stage, naked from the waist up, bleeding dour theatrical charisma.
It looked for a while as if the fire had gone out of the Prodigy. They conquered America in 1997 with their Fat of the Land album, then disappeared to their Essex mansions for years. When they returned in 2004, they seemed to have become a Liam Howlett studio project rather than the raucous gang of yore.
All that has now changed. At least half their set was drawn from forthcoming album Invaders Must Die, and new numbers such as Omen, World's on Fire and Warriors Dance have the energised moody tribal bounce of their best-loved material.
For their final number, however, they return to the heady days of rave, when at least half the crowd were still in nappies, and the reggae-tinged classic Out of Space becomes a venue-sized sing-along that Andy Williams would surely approve of.
It's very pleasing to be able to say that, after a lull, the Prodigy are back to their best.
Rating: ****
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... eview.html
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Cogglesz
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:11 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 6933Location: Scotland UKJoined: Wed May 23, 2007 2:57 pm
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zbyniu
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:32 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 1883Location: PolandJoined: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:08 am
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oh my fuckin' god, i love this tune!
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JimbQ
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:36 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 2862Location: Bristol, UKJoined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:58 pm
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Cheers Cog, i'll listen to it when i get home in about half an hour
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NEOREV
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:45 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 3847Location: USAJoined: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:56 pm
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i think from what i hear with the new material is what made Fat of the Land so great and liked across the board from a whole range of fans... it's the variety. haven't heard one new tune that sounds like the other. Liam is taking it to all different directions. i think that's what was missing with AONO, Maxim and Keith, not just them vocally, but the style for a track to fit one of their styles.
so far all the tunes sound massive.
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Cogglesz
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:55 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 6933Location: Scotland UKJoined: Wed May 23, 2007 2:57 pm
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zbyniu wrote: oh my fuckin' god, i love this tune! totally man i can't get over the solo in it, i dont want to say its better than mescaline but theres something in my head saying it is and i fucking love mescaline
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Fifer
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:21 pm |
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GeneralPosts: 2753Location: Amsterdam, NetherlandsJoined: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:00 pm
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Holy shit 2:20~ That's fucking awesome. Reminds me of the feeling in SMBU when the bass drops after the singing!
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