TheProdigy

Get a room.

Exactly! Now all I will say my last words, It's been emotional and 'be excellent to each other'

not sure where my post is, basically wayne how old are you;?

I believe he's 31, same as me.

purple squirrell wrote:


Nope, must have missed that

mikeyproddyfan wrote:


31 mate. 32 in June, the day John Wayne died, class of '79

Martinstatic wrote:

Mowgli wrote:


They said it for me ^

3 years back i got into the lads by accident and from then i am stuck untill today.
I am almost 19 and i started with FOTL(for many the record that ruined the "magic").I can't say about that coz i wasn't there that time.
Although something drag me to search them going into Expirience,Jilted,AONO and then just like that IMD appeared like i was meant to hear them from the day i was born but i had to find their staff myself.
Sometimes i am afraid to call myself a true fan even if i believe that i am realy into them...i don't know what makes a true fan,the only thing for sure is that i love 'em they inspire me and they are part of my every day life.

My story from the Athens gig is the following:

At the gig the most fans were between 25 and 30(and some of them with an ironic attitude about the young ones),but when Liam drop a fill from Religion i was the one that gone crazy for hearing one of my favourite tracks and the "true fans" were looking at me like i was a retard who was speaking chinese!

Cheers to all

I respect anyone who takes the time to research, formulate and evaluate their own musical opinions, without needing commercial success to taint their views.
From the age of 11-17 (1990-96/97(ish)) (sorry, my posts are starting to look like an Excel formula!) #DIV0! SUMPRODUCT(etc etc....)
....anyway, from that age I occupied a comfortable little niche between the "cool" kids i.e. the ones that we now laugh at because they earn fuck all because they failed all their exams, and the" boffs" i.e. the ones we laugh at now because they have no idea of the structure of the "real" world (yet we secretly envy their wealth). When I was at school, a time when a young man could even risk expulsion for such a minor misdemeanour as selling class A drugs in the classroom, there were the cool kids who liked whatever rock music was cool at the time. There were the boffs who liked electronic shit and came to school armed with crazy literature such as Mixmag etc, researched their favourite artists, researched the genre and amassed an arsenal-esque knowledge of all things bleepy and good. Of all those boffs, every one used their computer to write their own music (as many of us still do). Did any of the cool kids form a band? Did they fuck. We also went to lots of gigs and festivals to see our electro-deities and pay homage to their boom-tss-clap-tss greatness. Did any of the cool kids go and see G&R, Megadeath, Pearl Jam, Nirvana etc who they loved? Did they fuck. The first time I ever saw any of them at a gig was at a Prodigy gig years later.
One of my main points is, and I am aware I have raised it before, that we embraced a scene and researched the granny out of it using only magazines and nervous (oft unbroken voiced) phone calls to record companies and management (Mike Champion, thanks again for spending 15 minutes talking to (wit) two (ooo) 15 year olds who got your number off the back of the Jilted CD insert) to find out what was going on in the world of "dance music". We also did not have Ebay etc to get our rare imports, promos etc. That was pure legwork and a steely-eyed determination to not miss out on the latest cutting edge shit. I still have white label promos from Underworld when they were still releasing stuff as Lemon Interupt that I bought in my early teens from dingy basement record shops in Brighton and Saff Londinium.
"You kids nowadays don't know you're born".....etc. But seriously, internet, iTunes, Beatport, as well as the fact that this genre gets 1,000,000 times more coverage than it did "back in the day". There is no fucking excuse to be ignorant about a band/group/artist you love, unless you really can't be bothered.

You either find your musical calling at a young age and carry it in your heart until the day you pop your clogs.....

or......

......you go with the flow and ride the currency tsunami straight onto Simon Cowells cock.

You have the power.... what do you do?......



Muff smothers cock

Cock fucks bumhole

Bumhole farts up muff

RESPECT TO MY PRODIGY PEOPLE !!!!!!!! WE DO WHAT THEY DONT DARE DO!!!!!

mikeyproddyfan wrote:

I feel the same way but things have changed since then, they couldn't do the same thing for years.
You "old" guys should consider yourselfs lucky ones for having the oportunity to watch them in the 90's (till 96), and to have experienced the rave scene. Im only 18 and i started to listen to them since i was around 4 but my first and only gig was in 2009.
You guys shouldnt care this much about the the new fans not knowing the past of the band, the good ones will listen to theyr older stuff and the others will be gone.
Here in Portugal the young generation only cares about rock metal and stuff like that really, its really rare to find someone that likes music like the prodigy's, but i think its better this way, its like special

ps: sorry for the bad english

Gonga21 wrote:


Cherish it my friend, you have something unique to you, as did some of us many moons ago. And don't worry about your English, it is better than my Brazilian.

WayneB wrote:

KeVo wrote:


Kevo, you know that although no-one else is, you are.......

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purple squirrell wrote:


Thats the thing for me! There is a total lack of respect at the gigs and im not taring every young fan that attends the gigs but man alive the attitude that fills the air at times! I'm a bit of a lump so can handle myself in a crowd but having people, and it is a big majority of youngsters, bouncing off me whilst waving their elbows around in my direction and giving it the charlie big banana is a bit much!

Me and my mates had a blast at WDF, it was a top day out and i took my 16 year daughter, who is in to everything the band have done due to being educated on the back cat, something ive always done myself with any band i get in to. One thing that really grated on me was when a mosh pit suddenly formed and we all had to ride the wave of people struggling to keep themselves upright and seeing the look of terror on my daughters face as me and a mate grabbed hold of her before she hit the deck! Ok you know its gonna happen but why should it, where's the respect? If im at a Slipknot gig then ok it goes with that genere of music.

Man i was throwing shapes to Voodoo People along with a room of like minded people "back in the day" and now i'm having to keep an eye out for a flying elbow whilst trying to throw shapes to the same tune 16 years later! If thats what your about at gigs your sadly missing the point of not only The Prodigy but the tunes as well! Not only are you missing the point but your wasting your cash by not taking in the experience and vibe that The Prodigy have always created live.

I think that it comes down to the drugs! We had top drugs that did what they said on the tin! They have shite drugs that turn people in to arrogant twats

As for not looking beyond the "commercial" material, shame on you!

thanks for the replies guys, especially wayne B.
I can't really argue it with anything. you hit the nail on the head about "cool guys" thing and how they never went to see the bands