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POSTPONED GIG IN SOFIA '99

May 3, 1999 "The worse nightmare of the Prodigy fans in Bulgaria has become true!
The band has postponed their gig only 30 hours before it was due to begin - 8.00pm today!
The reason is the war in Kosovo and Yugoslavia, which is situated on the west side of the country. Yesterday a F-16 has bombed a house in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria by mistake. As you may not know, Bulgaria is a candidate to be a future member of NATO and this incident was treated as... ____________________ CONTINUE

THE READING INCIDENT

-The Prodigy and Beastie Boys were involved in a war of words at the 1998 Reading Festival. The Beastie Boys asked the Prodigy not to include Smack My Bitch Up in their set, claiming that it is offensive – but the Prodigy did play the song and Maxim shouted to the crowd: ”I do what the fuck I want.” Later the Beasties’ Ad Rock commented, ”From where I’m from, it isn’t cool.”. The strange thing is that Liam actually didn’t want to play at Reading in 1998 – because... _______________ CONTINUE

WHY LEEROY LEFT THE PRODIGY

"LEEROY THORNHILL has told Music365 that he left the Prodigy last month because he could no longer ignore the solo material he had been working on for the last few years.
And he says he's planning collaborations with Terry Hall, Finley Quaye and US rapper Eminem on his solo album, which he hopes to have out next year. Thornhill is releasing his first material under his Flightcrank persona on June through Copasetik Recordings. ___ CONTIUE

MOUSE 'RAVE CONCERT' EXPERIMENT

November 3, 2001 - An animal rights group has condemned an experiment in which mice were given drugs and forced to listen to rave music.
Many mice suffered seizures after being injected with methamphetamine, or speed, and subjected to music by The Prodigy. Wendy Higgins, BUAV campaigns director, said: "These sick experiments are absolutely despicable and will shock the public... _________ CONTINUE

DROP THE DEBT CAMPAIGN


February 02, 1999
The Brit Awards tonight in London will once again be providing a political platform for musicians with a cause. The 1999 festivities will be launching a "Drop the Debt" campaign intended to pressure wealthy nations to forgive the debts of third world countries.
While no one's expecting a repeat of last year's incident (that saw Chumbawamba's Danbert Nobacon dump of a bucket of ice-water on a high-ranking British politician... _________ CONTINUE

WE AREN'T THE WORLD


November 20, 1999 Prodigy have not commented on their decision to withhold permission for a sample to be used on the BBC-sponsored children’s charity record It’s Only Rock And Roll. Artists like Iggy Pop, Kid Rock and Status Quo had all recorded segments for the record. It was also planned that there would be a Prodigy sample used. But four days before the record was due to be pressed and debuted, while it was still being edited together, they demanded __________________ CONTINUE