The Prodigy Worlds On Fire [Live DVD] (Take Me To The Hospital)
3/5
By: Theo Krekis
21 years on from their emergence, we have the first ever live album and DVD from The Prodigy. World’s On Fire, as you might expect, is an hour of highly intense documentation, one which might make you feel slightly nauseous – not necessarily because of the band’s extreme approach to live performance, but the fact that not a single shot is held for longer than 3 seconds. That’s 30 different camera shots a minute. Or 300 shots every 10 minutes. 900 shots in half an hour. Bloody hell.
These aren’t just static shots either. To add to the overall ambience of The Prodigy’s performance, the cameras are spinning, shaking, zooming in, zooming out and even being spat on. Sounds fine for some weird off beat French Art house film, yes, but it somewhat frustratingly detracts you from their actual performance. After the fifth minute of intense strobes, lazers and smoke machines, you feel like you’ve got your sea legs on, rather than enjoying any sort of monumental performance at the Warrior’s Dance Festival at Milton Keynes Bowl.
Despite deliberately coming down pretty hard on the visual aspect of things thus far, this documentary does capture one of the greatest electronic dance acts of their time, and it has to be said that still nothing can really beat them at their own game – especially live. To remain in keeping with it as a cinematic experience however, we recommend jumping on your arm chair whilst getting a friend to switch the living room light on and off repeatedly, and reading this fragmented hyper text of everything else this DVD entails...
Crowd shot. Screaming. Sweating. Strobe. Guitar intro. ‘Breathe’. Close ups. Shifting jaws. Dilated pupils. Mosh pits. Omen. Anarchy. Pandemonium. Topless. Singing in unison. Out of key. Hands in the air. Out of breath. Jumping. Crescendo. Drop. Barging. Aerial Shot. Face paint. Eye liner. Clapping hands. Spinning camera. Shaking camera. ‘Firestarter’. Prolonged electronic fuzz. ‘Voodoo People’. Smoke machine. Red lights. More screaming. More sweating. More strobes. ‘Smack My Bitch Up’. Squaring up to the camera. Spray water from mouth. ‘Everybody In The Place’. Finish with ‘Out Of Space’. Done.
Artists in this article: The Prodigy
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