2025.06.29 – Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England

Date: 29th June 2025
Event: Glastonbury Festival
Venue: Worthy Farm
City: Pilton
Country: England
Support: see timetable

Tracklist:
1. Voodoo People
2. Omen
3. Light Up The Sky
4. The Day Is My Enemy (Liam H Remix)
5. Omen Reprise
6. Firestarter
7. Roadblox
8. Poison
9. No Good (Start The Dance)
10. Get You Fight On
11. Their Law
12. Invaders Must Die
13. Breathe
14. Smack My Bitch Up
15. Take Me To The Hospital
16. We Live Forever
17. Out Of Space

Extra info:
Other Stage timetable:
11:15 Louis Dunford
12:30 Nadine Shah
13:45 Shaboozey
15:00 Joy Crookes
16:30 Turnstile
18:00 Snow Patrol
19:45 Wolf Alice
21:45 The Prodigy

The whole The Prodigy performance from Glastonbury was available in the UK to watch on BBC iPlayer and listen to on BBC Sounds.

Review by Gwilym Mumford, www.theguardian.com:
This is the Prodigy’s fourth appearance at Glastonbury, but as Maxim says in a brief respite from the pummelling blast beats of Voodoo People, it should be their fifth. On the eve of their 2019 booking Keith Flint was found dead at his home in Essex. “Six years ago we lost our brother. This is his night,” Maxim declares.
Flint looms large at this year’s festival – head over to Joe Rush’s Carhenge and you’ll see his menacing grin adorning the bonnet of an upturned muscle car. But in tonight’s set he is positioned as a very visible absence: a silhouette, instantly recognisable by the two devilish points above the temples, is pinned to the giant screens by green lasers. On a reimagined Firestarter his vocals are winnowed down to a single repeated “I’m a firestarter”, Flint haunting the track rather than dominating it as he once did. And on Breathe his vocals in the chorus are omitted, with the crowd stepping in instead.
Flint’s absence is counterbalanced by a whole lot more Maxim, here playing the role of MC, compere and chief cajoler, shepherding crowds through the different eras of the band’s 35 year career, from the saucer-eyed hardcore techno of Jilted Generation to the rocky EDM of Invaders Must Die.
A word for the Other stage. It has received a glow up this year, with giant hi-def screens added, as well as a new lighting rig. It now is probably the best place to watch music at Glastonbury: every performance I’ve seen here has felt immersive and massive. That’s particularly true for the Prodigy and their retina-singing light show, with meandering lasers and walls of glitching graphics.
The spectacle seems to filter down to the audiences too, who have seemed up for it – bordering on unhinged – all weekend. There’s a sprit of the bacchanal tonight. Weed fug and pyro smoke hovers above the crowd of, as Maxim calls them “Prodigy warriors”: loud, unruly, boozy (and the rest). As the crowd skanks and sways to the boinging central refrain from Out of Space, Maxim surveys the scene and declares: “I think Mr Flint would have have been proud of you.”

Review by Maddy Mussen, www.standard.co.uk:
The Prodigy’s first appearance at Glastonbury since the death of Keith Flint was an emotionally-charged and spectacular performance
When The Prodigy headlined Glastonbury in 1997, it was history in the making: no dance act had ever headlined the festival before, and Glasto organisers had only recently started backing electronic acts enough to put them on the Pyramid Stage, following the success of Orbital’s performance a couple of years before.
But there was more, too. The Prodigy’s set that year was one of the first live performances of their landmark album The Fat of the Land. A classic from the off, the album now holds near-mythical status in the dance music world, almost as near-mythical as 1994’s Music For The Jilted Generation.
This year, instead of The Prodigy making history for Glastonbury, Glasto 2025 made history for The Prodigy: it was the band’s first performance at the festival since 2009, and more significantly, their first performance here since the death of original member Keith Flint. As Maxim, their other dancer/vocalist reminded the crowd, they were scheduled to perform in 2019 but called off their set due to Flint’s death.
Tonight, the maestro behind the music Liam Howlett brought the noise and Maxim proved capable of holding a crowd without his old ally, Flint. After opening with Voodoo People, the energy was up and stayed up throughout songs like Omen, Radiate and Firestarter. The latter was an immediate Glastonbury 2025 highlight, with a sea of people on shoulders, more flares than perhaps any other crowd, and the song remixed without its usual vocal, instead using snatches of Flint’s voice as an animation of him played on the screens. “That went out to our brother, he’s here with us tonight,” Maxim said.
The band played songs from across their eras, though perhaps overestimated interest in newer material. Despite a slightly saggy middle, the energy returned as the start of Invaders Must Die, one of The Prodigy’s most incendiary tracks.
Then came big hitters Breathe and Smack by Bitch Up, before closing it with their early rave-defining hit Outer Space. It was history in the making, even if it was missing one third of its heart.

Review by Patrick Hinton, www.mixmag.net:
The Prodigy and Glastonbury is a connection that runs deep. The legendary rave outfit were the first dance music act to headline the festival’s main stage in 1997, which was also the first year the BBC took over the broadcast rights. It was an historic performance. Primarily for the raucous tear up they transformed the sprawling field into, and also because it signified a landmark moment in a broader shift of the festival embracing dance music and nightlife as a major programming point, following a pivotal Orbital set in 1994 and the launch of the Dance Tent in 1995, which has since been eclipsed by the numerous dance-focused areas which are now the main draw for many.
This year’s headline performance on the Other Stage was emotional, with late front man and force of nature Keith Flint at the front of mind. The Prodigy had been booked to play this same slot back in 2019 but had to pull out. “We are so saddened to hear about the passing of Keith Flint,” commented Emily Eavis at the time. “What an incredible frontman … they were the first dance band to headline Glastonbury – a huge, unforgettable moment.”
The loss was monumental and time out was needed. They returned to playing live in 2022, and tonight they comeback to the hallowed turf of Worthy Farm and fulfil the postponed booking, asserting that they can still cause a rave ruckus like no other act on the planet. The combination of big beats, industrial rock influence, and rabble rousing MCing is dynamite and hits as hard as ever.
Just before their stage time the field is full of weary legs feeling the effects of five days partying in a field. But as soon as The Prodigy storm out at 9:45PM, just as dusk begins to fall, everyone leaps to attention, instantly enraptured and bouncing. This is elemental music, and though a key member is no longer with us, what The Prodigy bring to the world feels eternal.
“This is the fourth time we’ve played Glastonbury. It was supposed to be five times but six years ago we lost our brother. This show is dedicated to Mr Keith Flint,” booms vocalist Maxim. Flint’s legacy courses through the energy they unleash. ‘Voodoo People’ is a ferocious opener and things only escalate as they fire into ‘Omen’ amid a blistering start. The age range in the crowd is broad, from the rave dads reliving glory years to the gun fingering teens discovering the same intoxication with The Prodigy’s full throttle anthems as generations prior. We also spot Tilda Swinton front left. The Prodigy’s genre-busting sound that pulls from a cross-section of chaos brings the crowds out and unites them in the shared experience of letting loose. Classics such as ‘Breathe’, ‘No Good’ and ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ deliver, sparking delirium in the days-deep festival crowd who happily submit to losing their minds again for the climactic push. Flares are set off across the field with thick, coloured smoke pouring into the air, mixing with the neon lasers that cut through the sky above.
The loss of Flint naturally hangs heavy. The version of ‘Firestarter’ played is missing his deranged lyricism, losing some of its incendiary spark — though Maxim’s choice to stand stoically and silent as the unruly instrumental plays out is poignant. A laser outline of Flint’s unmistakable image and horned hairstyle is displayed on the big screens and Maxim takes the moment to pay respects. “He is here with us,” Maxim asserts in a salute to the heavens, as Liam Howlett’s beats make the earth shake.
Before closing track ‘Out Of Space’, Maxim makes another dedication to Jamaican artist Max Romeo who died in April. His track ‘Chase the Devil’ is heavily sampled in the reggae-infused rave cut which brings the set to a euphoric, stirring conclusion. While the sadness of loss is felt, it mirrors the cherishing of life that comes symbiotically. We all have to enjoy the time we have — and getting in amongst it watching The Prodigy slamming out boisterous beats to an unhinged crowd ranks high among the top ways to achieve that.

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