Somerset House by neko: Saturday, August 6th, Somerset House, London 6am in the morning on Saturday.... where am I? Oh right, in a hotel in Edinburgh and have a wake up call in order to get my 8am flight back to London. Just three hours earlier I was still in a club where Leeroy was DJing after last night's excellent and very hot Prodigy gig in town, so I feel rather shattered and hungover. I get back to London at 10am...nice to be home for a change on a Saturday and Sunday .... (AND still see the Prodigy!). The gig tonight is part of the Grolsch Summer Set events in the lovely Somerset House in central London. It feels very weird as it's also just around the corner from where I'm usually working, just a 20 minute bus ride from home. Nice. We get there pretty early already before 8pm, mainly because I don't want to miss Adam Freeland's set (favourite DJ ever since Australia). His set doesn't start as early as we thought, so plenty of time to visit the bar and meet up with people. If you haven't been to Somerset House you cannot imagine how nice this venue is. It's this little courtyard, outside stage, holding less than 3k people, in the middle of central London. It's still daylight and sunny weather at about 9pm when Adam Freeland comes on. Massive set...really love it. Brings back nice memories from the Australia tour in March as well (where he had been supporting Prodigy). The sun is going down and at about 10:30pm then it's time for the Prodigy. They come on and just instantly win the place over with the following set list: NEW Intro encore: There's a lot to say about this show but I had too good a night to give a detailed recap. In simple words though, it just totally worked. The set list was pretty much perfect, the location very nice and I had a pretty amazing time there, before, during and after the show. Brixton Academy by neko: Sunday, August 7th, Brixton Academy, London Same city, different venue - it's another Prodigy night! Yet again we head there early enough to have a few drinks and I meet some of the same people again as last night and some new and old faces, all very nice. Great to see Prodigy in Brixton again. They've played here so many times that it's easy to forget that before their two shows here last December, they hadn't actually played here since December '97 - that's a full 7 years! Just as last night already, there is a NEW Intro.
Not necessarily anything special on it's own, but does the job of
opening the show. From then on it gets exciting. Audience reaction is still huge when the band are leaving the stage and shortly after they're back again with Poison and Method Beat. During the track I can see Keith down at the front walking through the audience over and over again - he looks like he wants to hug every single person in the crowd. Smack my bitch up, yet another live favourite goes down extremely well. And then, Out of Space to close the set - amazing. I can't say enough how great this Brixton show was and must apologise for the rather short and lacking reports of the weekend - just had a bit a too good time I guess! A shout goes out to everyone i know, from the site, past shows etc I met this weekend - very good to see so many people. back to prodigy live [go home] (If you copy this, please link back to this URL) www.nekosite.co.uk - copyright © 1998-2005 by neko - all rights reserved |
