The Prodigy have been introduced as particular friends at this 12 months’s Boomtown Pageant.
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The competition, which is predicated in Winchester, confirmed the information this week (June 29) and stated it was the results of a “decade lengthy pursuit” to attempt to safe the band for the competition.
Happening from August 9-13, The Prodigy might be there for Boomtown’s fifteenth birthday and can shut the “Grand Central Stage” on Sunday night.
The competition tweeted: “@the_prodigy might be on the 15 years of Boomtown celebration. August thirteenth they land at Grand Central. The Prodigy will explode your actuality, a real celebration of anarchy in wonderland.”
Co-founder of the competition Luke Mitchell stated: “The Prodigy’s vitality, immense manufacturing worth, and affect within the rave scene make them the right match for Boomtown, and I’m over the moon that we’ve been in a position to lastly get this nailed down and may now share the thrilling information. The Prodigy are probably the most Boomtown band on the planet (by way of MixMag).
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✨ @the_prodigy might be on the 15 Years of Boomtown celebration ✨
August thirteenth they land at Grand Central. The Prodigy will explode your actuality, a real celebration of anarchy in wonderland 🔥
The portal to our parallel world opens in forty days 🫶
#Boomtown #TheProdigy pic.twitter.com/Ad55vcxmXC— Boomtown Truthful (@BoomtownFair) June 29, 2023
The band suffered the lack of frontman Keith Flint when he took his personal life again in 2019, aged 49. Final 12 months, the surviving members of the band hit the street for their first reside tour since Flint’s demise – incorporating a tribute to the icon throughout ‘Firestarter‘ of their high-octane set.
“We actually felt the gang have been there to assist us and provides us the vitality again and we’re eternally grateful for that,” Liam Howlett informed NME earlier this month, because the band introduced a sequence of latest tour dates.
“It was extremely emotional and really particular. Flinty won’t ever go away us; he’s embedded deep within the soul of this band and his vitality might be felt within the music and thru us onstage. That’s what I do know and really feel.”
In a five-star overview of their gig in Liverpool, NME wrote: “Uniting a misfit crowd of ravers and metalheads alike to have a good time life and legacy, their flame is burning brighter than ever. Not solely are The Prodigy again, they’re right here to reclaim their throne.”
Full dates for the UK ‘Military Of The Ants’ tour are under, with tickets on sale now; any remaining tickets are out there right here.
NOVEMBER
Thursday 16 – Glasgow OVO Hydro
Friday 17 – Manchester AO Enviornment
Saturday 18 – Leeds First Direct Enviornment
Monday 20 – Brighton Centre
Tuesday 21 – Cardiff Motorpoint Enviornment
Thursday 23 – Birmingham Utilita Enviornment
Friday 24 – London Alexandra Palace
