This one’s pretty special. Plug pulls out a blood curdling party of epic proportions canonized with an appearance from one of the global heavyweights of the live arena. An act synonymous with the reclamation of dance music as a ‘live’ medium, one of the few groups that straddle the divide between rock and rave with snarling ease and a group in possession of an apocalyptic back catalogue of fierce anthems.
Plug proudly presents Essex’s nastiest tour de forces, The Prodigy.
The Prodigy have torn the convention book with alarming alacrity since they first erupted on the music scene. Like many around him, studio whiz kid Liam Howlett was transfixed by the emerging rave scene in the late eighties, his fascination with early hip-hop morphing incessantly as the UK took to the four-four grooves emanating from Detroit and Chicago to create a truly British phenomenon; breakbeat led rave. Liam was at the helm of this, creating the scene defining ‘What Evil lurks’ EP shortly before meeting up with Keith Flint and Leeroy Thornhill in 1990. The trio inked a deal with XL recordings, then putting out the EP under their new band name… The Prodigy was formed.
At a point where the rave scene was blustering out of steam the release of ‘Charly’ would prove an epochal moment. Lambasted by many for its cartoonish vibes (at the time copied by a plethora of acts), the fragmentation of the scene was a charge labelled at Howlett and crew, blame unfairly attributed for destroying dance music’s integrity. The response? Well not for the last time in their history, a resounding f**k you; the LP The Prodigy Experience quickly followed, hitting the top ten whilst going gold and allaying any criticisms of the group as one hit wonders. Follow up Music for the Jilted Generation was even more successful, going gold in the first week of release and straight in to the top of the charts. At this point they began to develop their incendiary live reputation, taking the blueprint of Orbital one step further and smashing Glastonbury en route to becoming darlings of the rock scene and selling out tours across the globe.
Soon Keith Flint was the quintessential punk frontman, growling red-eyed down the screen as Howlett’s histrionics blared aggressively in the background. Now joined by raga MC Maxim, The Prodigy became the biggest band on the planet as the controversy surrounded singles ‘Firestarter’ and ‘Breathe’, then hitting orbit as ‘Smack my Bitch up’ was banned everywhere. The music was never overshadowed, always the intrinsic centrepiece for their juggernaut as they positioned themselves as rightful deities of the electronic music movement, the Prodigy are now held as the torchbearers for fusing the seemingly disparate entities of machine funk and brazen rock n roll. Scintillating live performers, they remain one of the most iconoclastic groups to have ever graced the planet, and heroes of our time.
Doors 9pm / £20 adv / Age 18+ / www.the-plug.com / 0114 241 3040
Please note you will need to bring the card you purchased your tickets with on the night.
Plug proudly presents Essex’s nastiest tour de forces, The Prodigy.
The Prodigy have torn the convention book with alarming alacrity since they first erupted on the music scene. Like many around him, studio whiz kid Liam Howlett was transfixed by the emerging rave scene in the late eighties, his fascination with early hip-hop morphing incessantly as the UK took to the four-four grooves emanating from Detroit and Chicago to create a truly British phenomenon; breakbeat led rave. Liam was at the helm of this, creating the scene defining ‘What Evil lurks’ EP shortly before meeting up with Keith Flint and Leeroy Thornhill in 1990. The trio inked a deal with XL recordings, then putting out the EP under their new band name… The Prodigy was formed.
At a point where the rave scene was blustering out of steam the release of ‘Charly’ would prove an epochal moment. Lambasted by many for its cartoonish vibes (at the time copied by a plethora of acts), the fragmentation of the scene was a charge labelled at Howlett and crew, blame unfairly attributed for destroying dance music’s integrity. The response? Well not for the last time in their history, a resounding f**k you; the LP The Prodigy Experience quickly followed, hitting the top ten whilst going gold and allaying any criticisms of the group as one hit wonders. Follow up Music for the Jilted Generation was even more successful, going gold in the first week of release and straight in to the top of the charts. At this point they began to develop their incendiary live reputation, taking the blueprint of Orbital one step further and smashing Glastonbury en route to becoming darlings of the rock scene and selling out tours across the globe.
Soon Keith Flint was the quintessential punk frontman, growling red-eyed down the screen as Howlett’s histrionics blared aggressively in the background. Now joined by raga MC Maxim, The Prodigy became the biggest band on the planet as the controversy surrounded singles ‘Firestarter’ and ‘Breathe’, then hitting orbit as ‘Smack my Bitch up’ was banned everywhere. The music was never overshadowed, always the intrinsic centrepiece for their juggernaut as they positioned themselves as rightful deities of the electronic music movement, the Prodigy are now held as the torchbearers for fusing the seemingly disparate entities of machine funk and brazen rock n roll. Scintillating live performers, they remain one of the most iconoclastic groups to have ever graced the planet, and heroes of our time.
Doors 9pm / £20 adv / Age 18+ / www.the-plug.com / 0114 241 3040
Please note you will need to bring the card you purchased your tickets with on the night.