The Prodigy
37 articles
Free articles
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, 7 August 1997
RARELY HAS a pop trend been so shamelessly spoon-fed to America as the hold-all genre dubbed "electronica". Rarely, indeed, has the music industry tried so ...
List of articles in the library
Review by Kris Needs, New Musical Express, 26 September 1992
WHEN THEY BURY the time-pod to enable future generations to get a handle on what happened in 1992, The Prodigy's debut album will be a ...
The Prodigy: Touched By The Hand Of Prod
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 16 July 1994
"So I've decided to take my work back underground... to stop it falling into the wrong hands." ...
Report by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 16 September 1994
Jon Savage sees the north take its regional revenge ...
Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 24 June 1995
Can't make it to Glastonbury this year? Mum wouldn't allow you near the place, huh, or is it, as you've told your friends, you were ...
Pulp, PJ Harvey, the Cure et al: Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 30 June 1995
City of 100,000 dancing lights: Caitlin Moran on a Glastonbury weekend that will be remembered chiefly for the coming of Pulp ...
Glastonbury: "Like Croatia with a bit of music"
Report by Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 1 July 1995
So, apart from ace music, what was it actually like "out there" on the fringes of Glasto's thrilling fields? SYLVIA PATTERSON ventured far to bring ...
The Prodigy: Irving Plaza, New York
Live Review by Frank Owen, Rolling Stone, 24 August 1995
EVERYBODY KNOWS that Brits can't rap or dance: They lack flow. True to form, the Prodigy's unexceptional rapper (Maxim Reality) and two clumsy dancers (Leeroy ...
The Prodigy: House Of The Razing Arson
Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 23 March 1996
The Prodigy, those Beztastic cartoon ravers with the bonkers tunes and child-scaring hairdos, are mutating! Yup, they are evolving, gulp, into a scary fire-snorting funky ...
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 20 July 1996
'Firestarter' has made THE PRODIGY the nation's favourite alternative alternative band: Chris Evans doesn't play them, they refuse to do Top Of The Pops, and ...
The Prodigy: Torhout Rock, Bruges
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 20 July 1996
I DON'T WANNA reiterate the usual boring Belgium jokes — I've had better times in Bruxelles than I've ever had in, say, Paris, but the ...
Prodigy: End Fest, Bremberton, Washington
Live Review by Gillian G. Gaar, Rolling Stone, 19 September 1996
ON THE one hand, it was hard to see why Prodigy were chosen to close End Fest; the annual daylong outdoor music festival is usually ...
Report by Kris Needs, Jockey Slut, February 1997
THE PRODIGY HAVE TAKEN LIVE DANCE MUSIC TO ANOTHER LEVEL, INCORPORATING ROCK ICONOGRAPHY, PARENT-QUAKING HAIR AND A FIERCELY LOYAL AUDIENCE. KRIS NEEDS REPORTS FROM THE ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 17 May 1997
MADRID FOR IT!! ...
Report by Ben Myers, Melody Maker, 31 May 1997
Sunday sunshine and a celebrity soccer shoot-out! A brace of top pop stars recently puffed their way around the pitch in a charity match. Some ...
The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land (XL Recordings XLMC 121) KKKKK
Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 28 June 1997
LAND OF HOPE & GLORY ...
Glastonbury: Where Were You While We Were All Getting Dry?
Report by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 5 July 1997
So, you are back home again, tucked up in bed, bad dose of the snivels. Your shoes are f***ed, your bones a bit soggy. Well, ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, The Village Voice, 8 July 1997
SOME SAY the Prodigy have betrayed the bright promise of the "electronica revolution", resulting in a techno-rock hybrid that's not so much kick-ass as half-assed. ...
The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 1997
CHRIST ALMIGHTY. It moves vertically through salted pressures with a head that can see sideways. It is red in tooth and claw. It swoons and ...
The Prodigy: Who Will Rave Your Soul?
Interview by William Shaw, Details, August 1997
They started a fire on MTV Now everyone expects them to heat up Lollapalooza. William Shaw butts heads with the Prodigy, rock's most reluctant heroes. ...
The Prodigy: Keith Flint Is the Firestarter
Profile and Interview by Chris Heath, Rolling Stone, 21 August 1997
How a faceless ass-rumbling hard rock techno band found a voice (and a haircut) and set the world on fire. ...
The Prodigy: Anarchy In The US!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 August 1997
With a Number One album and a headlining spot on Lollapalooza '97, THE PRODIGY are America's most wanted right now. Which means mainman Liam Howlett ...
The Prodigy, Primal Scream: Glasgow Green, Glasgow
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 31 August 1997
They're like the Sex Pistols. Via Mothercare ...
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 13 December 1997
YOUR MUSICAL memory of tonight is reversed; I walked backwards as they got worse. To pin the Prod down, pin down why they still offer ...
Book Excerpt by Ben Thompson, Seven Years of Plenty, 1998
LIAM HOWLETT - soft-spoken mastermind behind The Prodigy's globe-subjugating juggernaut of organised chaos - is a very busy man. If you want some idea of ...
Big Brother Is Watching Your Video!
Report by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 31 January 1998
Seen that Prodigy video yet? What about the promo for Aphex Twin's 'Come To Daddy' single or Death In Vegas' 'Dirt'? Nah? Well, why not? ...
The backroom boys who wield a big stick
Interview by Paul Sexton, The Times, 20 March 1998
Sir George Martin talks to Paul Sexton about the power of the producer ...
Prodigy: Chat Of The Landowners
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 1 January 1999
In the second of this two-parter with PRODIGY'S LIAM HOWLETT, NME has a word, Hello!-stylee, about his new country home, his pal Keith and his ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Spin, May 1999
EVER SINCE 'Firestarter' and 'Breathe' transformed Prodigy into rave'n'roll superstars, Liam Howlett, the band's leader and musical brain, has taken pains to distance Prodigy from ...
Interview by Chris Campion, URB, January 2001
TEN YEARS AGO, rave spawned a monster. The Prodigy, a bastard progeny spat out screaming from a dirt chamber of sound. This twisted British mutation ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, August 2004
"I REMEMBER being in our rehearsal room and Keith was picking holes in shit and I just thought 'What the fuck, man? What's happened to ...
The Prodigy: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2005
AFTER A SEVEN year wait for the follow up to 1997's The Fat of the Land and more than a decade on from the career-transforming ...
The Prodigy: Two Tribes Go To War
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2005
While last year's underachieving Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned album was released after a break of more than seven years between records, The Prodigy's European shows ...
The Prodigy: Invaders Must Die first listen
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 28 November 2008
Long time Prodigy fan and self-confessed knackered old cheesy quaver, John Doran gets invited to the first listen of the new Prodge album Invaders Must ...
Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 10 December 2008
IN 1996, WHEN Keith Flint – the face that soonest springs to mind when people think of the Prodigy – shovelled on the kohl and ...
The Prodigy: Invaders Must Die (Cooking Vinyl)
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 12 February 2009
A CRITICISM often levelled at Cooking Vinyl is that it resembles a second division football team with enough money to buy once gloriously talented players ...
The Prodigy: Mountford Hall, Liverpool
Live Review by Patrick Clarke, The Guardian, 15 July 2022
The late vocalist is etched in lasers for a comeback show that proves the fiery veterans are still a source of euphoria ...
see also Leeroy Thornhill
back to LIBRARY