2009.01.26 – Big Day Out Festival, Melbourne, Australia

Date: 26th January 2009
Event: Big Day Out Festival
Venue: Flemington Racecourse
City: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Support: see timetable

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. World’s On Fire
3. Their Law
4. Breathe
5. Breathe (Dubstep)
6. Omen
7. Spitfire
8. Warrior’s Dance
9. Firestarter
10. Action Radar Link
11. Run With The Wolves
12. Voodoo People
Encore:
13. Invaders Must Die
14. Diesel Power Beats
15. Smack My Bitch Up
16. Take Me To The Hospital
17. Out Of Space

Extra info:
Bolier Room timetable:
21:45 – 23:00 The Prodigy
20:45 – 21:45 Peewee Ferris
19:45 – 20:45 Hot Chip
18:45 – 19:45 Holy Ghost!
17:45 – 18:45 Simian Mobile Disco
17:00 – 17:45 Ajax
16:00 – 17:00 Lupe Fiasco
15:15 – 16:00 Z*Trip
14:15 – 15:15 Infusion
13:30 – 14:15 Andee Frost
12:45 – 13:30 TZU
12:15 – 12:45 Perplex
11:30 – 12:15 Acid Jacks
11:00 – 11:30 Ms Butt

Report by Evelyn Jowett:
Back in the Boiler Room, the rapturous roar of the crowd can only mean one thing; the pioneers of Stadium Rave The Prodigy are in the building. Indeed, the crew swiftly appears, with mastermind Liam Howlett delivering driving electronic riffs, as manic cyber-punk MCs Keith Flint and Maxim Reality prowl the stage like men possessed. MC Maxim asks, “Where are all my sweet Prodigy warriors?” to a delirious crowd, before the buzzing mayhem of ‘Breathe’ reverberates through the venue, whipping punters into a veritable dancing frenzy. As the MCs glower and strut around the stage defiantly, it is clear that this revolutionary crew is back with a majestic vengeance. Indeed, their recent single ‘Omen’ has punters thrashing about hysterically. After blitzing through an the incendiary guitars of ‘Firestarter’, the howling harmonica of ‘Voodoo People’, and the Atari-style bleeps of ‘Invaders Must Die’, they launch into the deep bass grooves of ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ which has the crowd chanting along. They finish with the electronic bleeps of ‘Out Of Space’. Quite fitting really, as tonight, The Prodigy quite literally propel this crowd into “another dimension,” reclaiming their title as the comeback kings of Rave.

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