The Prodigy, appearing for the first time since the passing of Keith Flint, and Olivia Rodrigo just finished closing the GLASTONBURY Festival’s two main stages.
Since their last performance in 2008, the British electronic group The Prodigy, established in Braintree, Essex, in the 1900s, topped the billing at the Other Stage Thursday night (June 29). The band performed at the iconic festival for the first time in 1995.
In March 2022, after the death of their at-the-time leader Keith Flint, The Prodigy revealed that they would be embarking on a ten-date UK tour. In October 2022, they also revealed that they would be returning to live performances internationally outside of the UK.
The Prodigy returned to Glastonbury this year to play such classics as “Smack My B**** Up,” “Breathe,” “Firestarter,” and more with Liam Howlett and Maxim at the helm.
In a scheduled house and thirty-minute performance, Maxim, who took over from Flint as the frontman after he died in 2019, infused much energy into the performance.
Maxim, real name Keith Andrew Palmer, often spoke directly to the crowd while the band performed.
“Where are you, my warriors?”
“Smack My B**** Up’ had fans producing red flares, and the audience was amped for several songs. Maxim and Liam also paid tribute to Max Romeo, the legendary reggae artist who died earlier this year.
Everybody in the full house screamed the words out loud when the band played “Out of Space,” which uses Max’s “Chase The Devil” as a sample. Towards the end of the set, Maxim said:
“We were meant to be here six years ago, we think you (the public) did Mr Flint Justice.”
Twelve minutes early, the concert concluded at 10:03 p.m., but the majority of the fans were not disappointed since they were able to listen to some of The Prodigy’s best tracks nonetheless.
It was an excellent event as a whole that commemorated great musicians, particularly Keith, who was one of the co-founders of The Prodigy.
With an incredible performance from American musician Olivia Rodrigo to bring the Pyramid Stage of the event to a close, Glastonbury ended on a high.
The 22-year-old tore through a sequence of snappy, punk-pop anthems and heart-wrenching ballads regarding the injustices of young love, after the aggression and pretension of earlier headlines, Neil youthful and The 1975.
She won over veteran Glastonbury-goers by signing duets with Robert Smith of The Cure (“perhaps the greatest English songwriter”) and won over her English fans by announcing her love of Colin the Caterpillar sweets from Marks and Spencer.
“Glastonbury’s been my fantasy festival forever, and I don’t believe today’s the day,” she grinned.