LIVE


Prodigy have the best fucking live show on earth. Keith once said: "The live act is what we`re about. We`ve dedicated the past five years of our life to it." They started as a live act and before `Charly` was released, over 100000 people had hear it live. Prodigy has performed from small clubs to the biggest festivals like Feile, Glastonburry etc. When they started at 1990, they were simply a live act. They were wearing fucking stupid clothes and they all were high, after taking a few E`s before going on stage. I don`t have any kind of tracklist on that period of time, but I can tell you that they performed usual tracks like Music Reach, Jericho, Fire (Sunrise Versio), Out Of Space, Your Love and Death Of The Prodigy Dangers. They perofrmed at clubs and raves. On that time Liam only small pile of keyboards on stage and he usualy addet just some sample to the tracks. Maxim's addings were quite simple too but Keith's and Leeroy's dancing was wery energetic. They performed in Helsinki, Finland, 22.10.1993 and after rhe gig Maxim said: "You are the best audience that we've ever had!"


When Liam got borred with rave-scene, they decidet to go much deeper in their music, but not just in music, their live performance became more phenomenoal. In 1994 they were still playing some rave tunes like Your Love, Out Of Space & Jericho, but they had also new tracks like Voodoo People, Rtythm Of Life, Poison, Their Law. Many of these tracks are still on their live set. They performed in Finland 11th November in Tampere 12th in Helsinki and 13th in Turku.


In 1995 their live became a sensational. They started touring at Spring when they had "Poison Tour". Gigs started with Break & Enter. Keith came to the stage in a plastic ball and Maxim helped Keith to get out from the ball. Like nowadays 2nd track was Voodoo People and Leeroy came to the stage. Maxim shouting: "The sweet voodoo, inside of me and you !" They performed trax like: Rhythm Of Life, Poison, Out Of Space, Their Law, Skylined, Rock`N`Roll, No Good (Start The Dance), We Eat Rhythm and Gabba. They also "jammed" a lot. They had live-guitarist Jimmy "Goose" Davies. The tour took place across Europe.


On summer 1995 they played on biggest festivals around Britain and Europe. They performed on `Tribal Gathering` and `Glastonbury`. The shows were phenomenom. The tracks that they played were almoust same as on the `Poison Tour` but they had at least one new ground breaking track `Funky Shit`. In summer 95 Maxim started to wear kilt and he continued wearing contact lenses. They also performed in Finland on 22nd of June in Midsummer Festival, in Lahti. That gig was 5th in Finland on 2 years. Maxim said after that gig: "Every time we come here, we have fucking good time. Thank you Finland."


In 96 they performed all the time around the world. They had many new songs in their live set. Like nowadays they started with 'Smack My Bitch Up' and next up was 'Voodooo People'. They performed also Breathe, Poison, Funky Shit, Weather Experience Intro, Their Law, Blow Your Mind, Skylined, Firestarter, Minefields, Rock`N`Roll, No Good (Start The Dance), and Gabba. They had new live-guitarist Gizz Butt. Gizz was on stage during Their Law, Rock`N`Roll and Firestarter. Although the trax are almoust same as nowadays there is diffences. 'Smack My Bitch Up' had different female vocal part, 'Breathe was also different, Poison has changed a lot during the years, 'Funky Shit' had different ending and there was that "Attention all personel" sample, in Rock`N`Roll Liam played drums. In firestarter Liam adds "It's my own secret technique" sample. In summer they performed in T-In The Park, Phoenix and in many other festivals and 14th July they performed in Joensuu, Finland. In fall they had "Breathe Tour 96-97". The tour took place across Europe and US.
Setlist was following:

Smack My Bitch Up
Voodoo People
Breathe
Poison
Funky Shit
Weather Experience
Their Law
Beats
Mindfields
Firestarter
Rock`N`Roll
No Good (Start The Dance)
Fuel My Fire
Gabba


Just do it to my bitch !They toured the whole year-97. The setlist was almost the same as in 96 except there was 'Serial Thrilla' and 'Narayan Beats' and later on in the fall there came 'Climbatize Intro'. In summer they had 'Goodbye Jam' (aka 'Maxim Rapping'), but they left it away in fall. They didn't performed 'Weather Experience' or 'No Good (Start The Dance)'. During the 'Rock`N`Roll' Liam didn't played drums.


They performed in Helsinki 24th of October in Harwall Arena. The show was sold out. The capacity in Hartwall Arena is about 13,000. It was usual Prodigy live performance. It started with Smack My Bitch Up Intro. Intro was quite long but finaly 'Smack My Bitch Up' started. Maxim and Keith came to the stage. Keith wore a blue t-shirt whitc had yellow text "Fuck That Weak Shit". They also performed Funky Shit Intro, 'Everything what we gonna do hat to be 100 % funky'. The setlist was following:

Smack My Bitch Up
Voodoo People
Poison
Funky Shit
Their Law
Narayan Beats
Serial Thrilla
Climbatize Intro
Mindfields
Rock`N`Roll
Firestarter
Fuel My Fire
Gabba

In december Prodigy took a live-drummer for the UK shows. His name is Kieron Pepper. In the UK tour Foo Fighters supported them. They also have new track list which is following:

____Benny Blanco Intro
____Smack My Bitch Up
____Voodoo People
____Rock The House
____Their Law
____Blow Your Mind
____Funky Shit
____Breathe
____Narayan Beats
____Serial Thrilla
____Poison
____Climbatize Intro
____Mindfields
____Rock`N`Roll
____Firestarter
____Fuel My Fire
____Full Throttle

They started '98 by performing in Australia. And on summer they per formed in some biggest festivals like Rock Am Ring, T in The Park, Reading etc, around the world. New setlist is following:

____Intro
____Rock'N'Roll
____Their Law
____Funky Shit
____Ride The Rhythm
____Breathe
____Voodoo People
____Rock The House In
____The Man With The Masterplan
____Firestarter
____Climbatize Beats
____Poison
____Serial Thrilla
____Mindfields
____Smack My Bitch Up
____Fuel My Fire
____Hip-Hop Beats


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