To mark the Prodigy’s 2015 UK tour,Rock’s Backpages brings you this Melody Maker interview with the band’s frontman. It’s 1994, and the police are killing rave culture …“So I’ve decided to grasp my work back underground … to stop it falling into the wrong hands.” So begins Music for the Jilted Generation, and the Prodigy’s fab moment LP. See,seven consecutive hits and a gold debut album arent enough for 23-year-old whiz-kid Liam Howlett. He’s sick and tired of his public image: peerless purveyor of hyper-hyper bubblegum nuttercore for E’d up popkids. Liam wants to be taken seriously; more to the point, he wants to be taken seriously by you, and the alternative rock fan. So that’s why he’s used rock guitar in a couple of tracks on the album,and that’s why Jilted is a sort of semi-concept album, with a “heavy” political statement.“The Jilted Generation, and it’s all the kids whove grown up on this supposedly corrupt dance music,” says Liam, in between hacking his lungs out (he’s race down by endless remixing and a recent tour of Australia). “The government are trying to make out the whole scene is ghastly, or they want to stop everyone going out and having a great time.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com