Part 4: Adelaide & Melbourne (Two Tribes) [ Part 1] [ Part 2] [ Part 3 ] [ Part 4 ] [ Part 5 ] by neko: Saturday, 12th March 2005: Two Tribes Festival - Adelaide Royal Showgrounds After a day to relax we're off to Adelaide on Saturday morning at 7.40am already. Not sure why we booked so early, probably was the cheapest! Very hot here in Adelaide (over 30 degrees) and not that much to do, so we just chill out a bit. The gig tonight is a very early one, so we get to the venue at about 7pm. It's another Two Tribes one and we take a little walk around. It's again your usual dance festival with different stages and different DJs playing. Prodigy are the only live band though and apart from Grandmaster Flash and Armand van Helden earlier on the bill, I don't recognise any of the names. The people around partly look very stuck in the early nineties, lots of neon clothes and glowsticks, many people looking like fresh from a cyberdog outlet sale! The main area, where Prodigy are supposed to play, is still very empty and the DJ on is pretty rubbish. The band on here in an hour? So we sit outside a bit and go back in after 8pm. There's now a special 'Prodigy warm up set' by DJ Hyper and he is actually much better than the guys before. Bring back Adam Freeland any day though! It's about 10-15 minutes before the band are supposed to be on and now suddenly the place seems to change quite a bit. The room is very crowded now and there's a very good vibe of excitement and expectation. Everyone is here to see Prodigy and we're all extremely excited about it, yeah! At 8.40pm then the Wake Up Intro comes on and now this place looks and feels like a Prodigy gig. Gone is the cheesiness of the event and it all feels right now. The band come on and start with Wake Up. We're a bit back on the side and got nice space to dance, so it all feels really good. Now as usual, Their Law, then the old fill and now Warning. The gig tonight is great. Despite what it looked like in the beginning a great audience here actually, almost as if someone had interchanged everything 10 minutes before it started. Then goes on as usual, with the likes of Breathe,
Spitfire,
Girls / More Girls,
Back to School, all very good tonight. Band are totally there and the audience now is your real Prodigy audience.
Firestarter then - I am still not really into this new version too much really. I guess it was a cool thing to come up with a remix, but as a whole it doesn't really work for me. Then return, with the usual encore: Poison (with release yo delf fill), SMBU and then some intro beats leading into Out Of Space. So, all in all it turns out to be a rather good gig! Probably my favourite of the Two Tribes gigs. Sunday, 9th March 2005: Two Tribes Festival - Melbourne Park Our flight to Melbourne is at 11am, so we get a bit of time in the afternoon to go to St Kilda beach. It's a hot day once more whereas apparently back home it's still snowing! Tonight is already the last show in Australia and I can't quite believe yet that this is going to be over so soon. I don't want to leave! It's a late show tonight, again as part of Two Tribes festival in the massive Melbourne Olympic Park. This one's a rather big one, with about 6 stages and Prodigy playing the biggest one of them, looking like something of about 5k capacity. We get to the venue at about 11pm and, bloody hell, it's crowded. It's all a bit chaotic and access to the arena where Prodigy are on is already very restricted. Once inside they dont really let many people down to the standing area anymore (we of course make it). Looks like the doors are locked now and already 45 min before Prodigy are on no one can really get into the arena anymore. Try and stage a 20k capacity event around one live band in a 5k arena and you're obviously in for trouble and the shit will hit the fan eventually (or was that after the show? ha ha). The event tonight itself is actually pretty cool. First one of the Two Tribes festivals I actually like for the festival itself, cool crowd and a cool DJ on before Prodigy. Almost seems like a whole festival organised around the Prodigy's show now. So we're getting near midnight and you can feel the anticipation in this large arena tonight. As at all shows lately, the intro to the show is Primal Scream's Exterminator. Cool. I'm still excited like a little child everytime before the band come on. I may have met them all a couple of times and seen them play many gigs before, but the minutes just before a gig and having the band as a collective up on stage is still the most exciting thing in the world for me. So, the show starts with Wake Up and this is actually followed by a new fill I haven't heard before. This is of course very cool. And as much as I loved this tour (as a whole experience maybe even my favourite ever) there hasn't been that much of the unexpected and new stuff. The whole Kool Keith thing more than made up for this of course, but it's just nice to hear something new, even if it just lasts 20-30 seconds. The rest of the gig then goes on more or less 'as usual': encore: It's a good one but Adelaide was more intense and the festivals just cannot live up to the three amazing solo shows. It's always hard to grasp such a large venue and Keith and Maxim are doing it really well. At some point Maxim runs right through the crowd, up the stairs and into the seating area, where he remains for a whole track, well appreciated by the fans up there. The band are definitely very well received once more! 2 more days in Oz and I'm off to Asia ... [ Part 1] [ Part 2] [ Part 3 ] [ Part 4 ] [ Part 5 ] 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 |
