Prodigy tick all the right boxes

You pretty much know what you’re going to get with a Prodigy gig, and last night at the Marquee in Cork they again managed to tick those quality boxes they’ve been filling in since they first burst on the scene in the early 1990s.

A blitzkrieg of massive beats? Check. Classic dance tunes augmented with a smattering of newer material hinting at how they’ve managed to stay relevant through the genre’s fickle fads? Got it. A superb stage show fronted by the dynamic Maxim Reality and the Keith ‘Mohican’ Flint? Definitely. An up for it Cork crowd in a busy Marquee? Without doubt.

When the Prodigy first played Cork in 1995, they blasted out a storming set at the Féile held in the stadium adjacent to the Marquee. Fewer than half of tonight’s crowd are old enough to have been there, and the hefty batch of younger people who bought the €60 tickets for tonight show indicate there’s probably plenty life left in the group.