Prodigy/Carl Cox

MelvinDeath

MelvinDeath

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Just seen videos from Carl Cox insta from the first show last night

Heading to Manchester tonight for it, really looking forward to it

Anyone else got tickets for the tour?
 
I love Prodigy, but realistically it's always gonna be some form of the same set haha but they were good

Coxy was good, but it felt like people were only starting to warm up by the time he came off (which..as a support is I guess his job) a lot of people very much just there to stand and watch rather than dance
 
I was at the Glasgow show. Thought it was decent enough. I'm just a casual fan of The Prodigy - first time seeing them. First time seeing Cox too... Must admit, if that's a typical set, not sure why people get so excited, but could be I'm just not into DJs that much these days. Only really remember a couple of tunes (an annoying boiing boiing boiing one, which I'm sure I've heard before, so it's possibly something really well known) and an Echo and the Bunnymen sampling track.
 
I've looked back at the videos and can say that the crowd on the vids looks a lot deader than it actually was

Plenty were loving it - not sure if sheer venue size makes it look like everyone's stood there haha
 
nobody has yet explained how the prodigy functions without Keith Flint... do they project a hologram of some avatar with 2 green horns? or are there enough bells and whistle on stage that you don't notice his absence? or do they get tony hadley in as a replacement?
 
The Sun God said:
nobody has yet explained how the prodigy functions without Keith Flint... do they project a hologram of some avatar with 2 green horns? or are there enough bells and whistle on stage that you don't notice his absence? or do they get tony hadley in as a replacement?
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He's only really referenced for Firestarter. There's Keith silhouette lasers on screen but they don't play his vocal and Maxim doesn't move for that one (apparently, never been close enough to see) - crowd basically does the vocals

Everything else in the set is all Maxim or samples
 
The Sun God said:
nobody has yet explained how the prodigy functions without Keith Flint... do they project a hologram of some avatar with 2 green horns? or are there enough bells and whistle on stage that you don't notice his absence? or do they get tony hadley in as a replacement?
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I have seen them a couple of times since Keith passed, and honestly, it is just as good if not better. The production etc. Yeah Firestarter is different, but they address it quite well with the lasers and silhouette . As harsh as it sounds, losing Keith was not like losing Freddie Mercury for Queen or Michael Hutchence to INXS...he was there to compliment the tunes really, a bit like Bez, shouted 'yeah' a lot, jumped around on stage, but was never a lead singer or even frontman. Obviously you associate Keith with the Prodigy...but the live shows have not really suffered (IMO)
 
Some of the clips I have seen on Carl Cox have been great, and its nice to hear him playing all the old rave stuff.

I used to love the Prodigy, and still do love their earlier stuff, when Charly first came out I'd never heard anything like it and loved it, same goes for Everybody in the place and Your Love, I love the old hardcore sound.

Music for a jilted generation though is my favorite album by them, but you can also hear their new sound moving away from rave/hardcore in tracks like Thier Law and Poison... by the time Fat of the Land came out, I wasn't so into their sound (I was heavily into the jungle scene then) and their style was too far away from what I initially loved about them.

Seen them love twice though, and both times great!
 
Loved the Jilted album. Remember my flatmate caning it to death all through 95/96. Thereafter, diminishing returns for me although Liam's Dirtchamber Sessions CD was pretty decent too. I always respected them because they genuinely didn't give a shit about what was cool, just doing their own thing. Felt really sad when Keith died because by all accounts he was a top man
 
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