I Love Techno festival, Gent GUEST REVIEW by Bieb: Prodigy on a Techno festival! It's always great to see the Prodigy act live, I saw them 3 times: Brussels '97, Beach Rock '98 and Beach Rock '02. The first time was offcourse really amazing, specialy because of it was only Prodigy playing that night! whoaaaaa! great! 20000 people enjoyed that show. The both Beach Rock editions were played for about 50000 people. Now, Prodigy planned to play on I Love Techno, the huge dance festival i visit every year. When I heard the news Prodigy was coming to I Love Techno in Gent, I didn't believed it! My favourite band on my favourite party, only few streets away from my homeplace!!! That couldn't be true! But then I had a few questions. Prodigy on a techno festival? Will that work out? One music hall of the festival can contain about 5000 people, isnt that to small for Prodigy? Then I noticed on the official Prodigy site that Liam & co had chosen to play most of their tour for maximum 5000 people. Does The Prodigy wants to get a bit more 'underground'? Like we notice that they even dont want Hotride to hit the charts, by releasing it only in a small number of copies. Last year I Love Techno sold about 25000 tickets, but seven days before the '04-edition they sold 27000 tickets. Only few days later I Love Techno was sold out: 35000 tickets. Reason? Prodigy! ENTER & BREAK 13 november! Finaly the Big Day! ILT starts very soon, at 19h, and offcourse i was there. I could enter very quickly cause I had a VIP-ticket for the price of a normal one. The only thing i had to do for that was be one of the first 100 to buy a ticket. So I did :) PRODIGY ON STAGE (And NOT on stage!) The intro and Wake Up Call make the whole place jump, and i love the track. But I notice the sound hasnt the same volume as on Beach Rock. I like it hard you know ;) Thought the lights weren't special too, they were not bad but I dont think they were as good as on the Athene-vids. Wake Up Call was followed by a complete mess and lots of confused people. Prodigy left stage and the lights went on. I though FUCK! Guess Liam is not happy with something, the sound or something, and prodge is outtahere! :( This was so shitty, I was pretty sure they wouldnt come back, otherwise they would not leave. Panic! After 10 minutes we heard that the people had to leave the place, but hey, offcourse nobody did. Few minutes later it was clear only few people had to leave cause of safety-reasons. To many people had entered the room. What the hell was that! ILT is known for their perfect organistion, but now they really made an big mistake. This stuff took about 30 minutes. Then Liam returned on stage. I felt a shame. Their Law rocked the place and the half an hour 'boooing' was forgotten fast. This is one of my favourite tracks, and its clear everybody knows it, after all the waiting the audience gets mad! Yes! Warning is so great, people reacted surprised, but it was a matter of seconds that Warning was in full control of the 5000 fans. And it goes on and on! This one can handle the level of Firestarter. Spitfire makes the people shout, but i'm sure they all loved Warning more. Offcourse Breathe is the first big bomb, as we know, this is always mad, the music, the lights, everything! This is what we're here for! And off course Keith and Maxim are entertaining the audience very well! Girls / More Girls was kinda short I think, but it was recieved well. But i expected more of the lights. Once again; the lights didn't seem to be as good as on Athene. Thats pitty, cause ILT has real nice light-installations. Medusa's Path is a chiller bit i like it, loving the eastern style of it and give my legs a bit of rest. Hotride, doesnt work good like Neko told us before. The track rocks but live its to weird. Now we should have The Way It Is but this track stays in Liam's Mac on I Love Techno. Pitty cause i love it but now i'm happy with what I get after the safetyproblems. Mindfields: Amazing live track! yeah! No further comments! Firestarter then is the bomb of the day, its so hard, and its builds up and up and up. Firestarter live is just one of the greatest things you ever can experience. This is losing control, this is giving everything you got, using all the energy you've left. Did not thought to get extra tracks cause it was already 1 o'clock for a long time, but Poison hitted us as well. The beats of this track are so nice, never noticed before that they could be that hard. I'm really suffering and having fun at the same time. I'm tired, i must sit, or enjoy the finale. What shall I do? Auch, there is Smack My Bitch Up! Juuuuuuump! :D When SMBU fades out really slowly, Liam, Keith and Maxim great the audience, this gives a nice feeling of respect. Prodigy give me more the I expected, they played 75 minutes (exc the problems:p) and they should have played 60 min's so I was very very happy! I Love Techno messed it up, but The Prodigy made the night just great. I have not made pictures, the outfits where the same as in Zurich and the pictures of Tillate in Neko's review are just too good! I hoped most of the people would stay for Miss Kittin, but almost everybody left, guess everbody wanted to leave that hot room for a while. While the set begins, the room gets full again, and yes, Out Of Space made lots of people dance once again. Did not see many acts after that, all rooms were full! I love Techno really will have to reduce the amount of tickets. But i wasn't sad or something I could not see top technodjs. I allready had my big finale.
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