25.05.2011 The Prodigy LIVE
WORLD’S ON FIRE - erste spektakuläre Live-Veröffentlichung ab jetzt im Handel!
Anschnallen! The
Prodigy veröffentlichen erstmals in ihrer Laufbahn mit "
World's On Fire" eine spektakuläre Live-CD und -DVD! Aufgenommen beim größten Auftritt der Band aller Zeiten, nämlich bei ihrem eigenen ausverkauften
Warrior’s Dance Festival in der Milton Keynes Bowl Arena. Genau dem legendären Amphitheater etwa 80km nordwestlich von London, in dem auch Bands wie Green Day, Linkin Park und sogar Queen bereits beeindruckende Live-Konzerte aufgenommen haben und das als bevorzugte Spielstätte für viele internationale Superstars gilt. DIE perfekte Location für
The Prodigy, um Mega-Hits wie unter anderem „
O“, „
Firestarter“, „
Breathe“, „
Warrior’s Dance“, „
Smack My Bitch Up“ wirklich atemberaubend für die Ewigkeit festzuhalten. Entstanden ist quasi ein "
Best of" einer der wichtigsten englischen Bands der Neuzeit, die dem "Rave" ein Gesicht gegeben und ihren Stempel aufgedrückt haben. Randvoll mit allen Smash-Hits und Freude machendem Bonusmaterial.
„Wir haben lange darüber nachgedacht, welches der Platz dafür wäre
eine richtig große Party zu schmeißen. Wir wollten auf keinen Fall diese
typische Stadion-Atmosphäre, von daher war die Milton Keynes Bowl Arena
der perfekte Platz für unsere eigenes „Warrior Dance Festival“. Es war
eine völlig abgefahrene Party auf einem riesengroßen Feld. Diese Nacht
war für uns unvergesslich. Für uns war es sehr wichtig, ein richtiges
Festival zu veranstalten, so dass sich die Leute ewig daran erinnern
werden und das inmitten einer Atmosphäre, die uns sehr stark an unsere
Konzerte in der Brixton Academy in London erinnert hat. Auf dieser Bühne
zu stehen war ein einzigartiger Moment, vor uns die Menschenmenge, die
einfach nur gerockt hat – wir haben uns das angesehen und waren einfach
nur stolz“. – The Prodigy.
Der Sound für die DVD und Blu Ray
wurde von Liam selbst in 5.1 Dolby Surround Qualität bearbeitet und beim
Anschauen des Films hat man das Gefühl inmitten der Menschenmenge zu
stehen und die volle Power dieses einzigartigen Ereignisses zu spüren.
Und wer diese unvergleichliche Band einmal live erlebt hat, weiß was man
erwarten darf: pure Energie, eine explosive, mitreißende Atmosphäre,
eine atemberaubende Lightshow und fantastische Sounds bei denen einem
die Bässe nur so um die Ohren fliegen.
Diese Veröffentlichung ist
die Chance für Fans brandneues und überarbeitetes Footage der Band zu
sehen, einschließlich einiger Filme, der während der „Invaders Must
Die“-Tour in Brasilien, Japan, Amerika und Europa aufgenommen wurden.
Sie bietet außerdem viele exklusive Fotos und versteckte Extras, die man
mit Hilfe eines interaktiven Menüs entdecken kann. Unterstützt von dem
Award-Gewinner und Dokumentar-Filmer Paul Dugdale wurde das Footage von
der Band selbst ausgesucht und zusammen gestellt. Wichtiger Hinweis:
unbedingt voll aufdrehen damit auch die Nachbarn was davon haben!
Milton
Keynes CD & DVD/Blu-Ray Live@Milton Keynes Bowl:
• Intro
•
Breathe
• O
• Colours
• Thunder
• Warrior’s Dance
•
Firestarter
• Run With The Wolves
• Weather Experience
•
Voodoo People
• Omen Reprise
• Invaders Must Die
• Smack My
Bitch Up
• Take Me To The Hospital
• Everybody In The Place
•
Their Law
• Out Of Space
INVADERS ALIVE – EXTRAS:
•
Run With The Wolves, Brixton, London
• Spitfire/Mescaline, Brasilien
•
Breathe, Slane Castle, Irland
• Poison, Glastonbury, England
•
Warning, T In the Park, Schottland
• Japanischer Film
• Smack My
Bitch Up, Isle Of Wight To Download, England
• USA Film
• UK Arena
Tour Film
• Voodoo, Bestival und Paris, Frankreich
Interview
mit The Prodigy
Interview with Liam Howlett
Warrior’s
Dance Festival at Milton Keynes Bowl
“To be honest I was
uncomfortable about doing the gig in the first place you know. We never
wanted to be like the type of band playing stadiums or whatever. We
still love to play Brixton, that’s what we’re about. But people just
kept saying we should do it and I was like ‘we will only do it as our
own festival, not a Prodigy gig with a support act.’ So we put together a
good line up of bands and djs ,a cool small second stage ,we even had a
tattoo tent doing ant logos … it was a celebration of twenty years. We
wanted to put on a proper day and night for the people like knebworth
oasis .
“In a way it was a bit of an accident really. There was
never a masterplan to it. We wanted to do something special to round off
the whole Invaders time. You know, that album was a great thing for us.
It brought out all of the old skool fans again and took us to a brand
new generation of fans. So we wanted to do something pretty special to
leave our mark .We chose Milton Keynes Bowl in the end ‘cos it reminded
us of goin to an old rave , a big green field , it had that energy to
it.
“I’ll never forget the feeling going on stage, it was like…
fucking hell. I don’t get nervous at all, I mean we’ve played to bigger
audiences and played bigger festivals but it was like, hang on a minute,
these people are here for us… We were a few songs in before I started
to enjoy it . There were lots of emotions involved, there was a
twenty-year build up to that gig. It was almost too much.
“We put
a lot into choosing the songs. We wanted to keep the energy going but
still wanted to play stuff from every period of The Prodigy. People
would expect stuff like ‘Firestarter’ and what have you, but we wanted a
few surprises in there too. We did ‘Weather Experience’ and had those
lasers in the show as a respect back to the early rave era.
“That
day was very special and we’re proud of it “
World’s On Fire -
Live album and DVD
“It never interested me just to do a live DVD
but this is a live audio album with a DVD in it! I wasn’t up for a live
DVD at all, and to be honest I don’t like live albums so that didn’t
excite me either. But when Duggers (Paul Dugdale) started showing me
some of the footage he’d put together I started thinking it might be
good to do a few tracks. Maybe put them online or something. Thing is,
he’d managed to blag loads of kit for the day so we had a lot of great
footage. When he started putting it together it had a real energy and I
started to warm to the idea. So it came about through us liking what we
were seeing and hearing which is the only reason to do it”
“We’ve
released live tracks before but never thought of doing a live album. I
started mixing a couple of the tracks and it sounded big. It couldn’t be
just an album of songs played live but also an accurate representation
of what it was really like. Mixing in the 5.1 surround really made me
feel I was in the middle of that crowd. If we were ever to do a live
album, that’s the gig it had to be.
Cinema release – March 31st
“You
know, I can’t believe that we pulled that off. People were dancing in
the aisles and shit and dancing on the stage in cinemas around the UK,
that was great . We were one of the first bands of our type to do this
but even when we were watching the film in a cinema before hand I was
like ‘not sure if this is gonna work’ It was just too quiet in there. I
kept shouting for them to turn it up but they were at their legal cinema
limit… But the fans went and got totally into it, one cinema kept
turning the sound off coz the stage kept being invaded.”
Invaders
Alive - additional films on DVD and Blu Ray
“Paul Dugdale had done
these teaser films for our Warrior’s Dance Festival and other festivals,
and they were fucking sick. They went on You Tube as virals but it felt
right to have some of the film stuff he’s done on the road as a part of
this release. He’s really captured the energy of the band and the films
kind of sum up where we were at that time. This live album and DVD is
like a summary of The Prodigy so far. From here on who knows?
The
next album
“We’re back in the studio startin the new record. We’re a
lot more prepared this time. I’ve been working when we’ve been on the
road and it’s a much less pressured situation. It’s always the first two
tracks that are the hardest. I’ll try out loads of shit and then
something will emerge, give it direction and shape it . All I know is it
will be dirty, heavy, unsafe and sound like the prodigy! ”
-
Martin James
