Leeroy WAS and IS a DJ . Keith Flint is the one that is the dancer.

Both. He used to be the dancer and was/is a DJ. He did a gig in hour town some years ago which I unfortunately couldn't join.

And to undergrid the argument Leeroy is a dancer whatch this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/yqvK6xaik_k&rel=1

yeah i watched it. so Leeroy used to dance to Prodigy's music . and he was/is a dj and he has a great infuence on the band . after him the band started to suck.

wtf?

death of a prodigy dancer....

I am quite sure that Leeroy has nothing to do with the Prodigy sound. I'm happy to be educated otherwise, but by someone who isn't a moron.

well u know trying to educate some kind of people is harder than educating monkeys . anyway , if Leeroy has nothing to do with the Prodigy sound why was he in the band ? u know just to hang out ? and why did they started to suck after he left them ? and if Leeroy hadn't know anything about music ( like some amongs us ) how can he IS a dj now ????

a normal logical human being should have understood smthng from this but i can't say the same thing for monkeys that are used to walk with 2 legs without using their hands.

Leeroy never really had any input into The Prodigy's tracks, you can see this on any of their albums writing credits, however he is one of the coolest DJs I've seen and is now mega busy recording with Hyper (We Control), has his own label and is remixing quite a bit as well.

http://www.myspace.com/leeroythornhill

AND it looks like The Prodigy's album will be released on 05-05-08 8)

May 5th!!!!!! Can't wait!!

just check this out this is from Wikipedia :

"Leeroy Thornhill (born 8 October 1968) is a British electronic music artist and formerly a dancer and occasional live keyboardist of the British rave act The Prodigy."

I'm a big fan of the early prodigy prodigy stuff. I'm not to crazy about the last album though. I still have major respect for them tho. Their love shows are amazing and so full off energy and their early stuff is just amazing.

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"Well, AONO was a rushed album (Liam made Spitfire in one night!)"

I think he wrote it in one night but Spitfire was one of the tracks he worked for ages in New York on towards the end of AONOG's production (it was a contributing factor to the albums much delayed release)

I used to be a HUGE Prodge fan and saw them live in the good old days of 91-92ish. For the record Leeroy had absolutely jack shit to do with their sound and as far as i know never played keyboards live on stage. I've seen them live god knows how many times over their career and have tons of live footage on video and I've never seen him perform any musical part. The medocrity of AONOG is pretty much to do with Liam H getting hugely rich and comfortable and utterly loosing the creative drive to do something with any punch (he's as much admitted so himself)

Personally I think they pretty much got steadily worse as their career went on. I'm not a fan who thinks the Fat of the Land is the high point of their career. Music for the Jilted Generation is far superior. FOTL has some great tracks but as soon they ditched the full on fun of their early days (anything pre 97) and replaced it with pantomime blood and 'scary' haircuts it was kind of game over for me.

However it will be interesting to see what the new album is all about. I agree with Tom Liam H is a musical genius, he's got truck loads of talent, but I'm skeptical of how their live stuff will go down in 2008. I think the Prodigy's biggest problem is that their main fan base has grown up and out of them and there isn't so much of a young fan base who seem to be even interested in dance music full stop. Let alone dance music made by increasingly wrinkly 40 something punks.

cause this is my united planes of : WHATEVA!

liam writes all the music.

leeroy just danced.

so leeroy leaving probably didn't have much of an effect to be fair.

It's what I've been saying all along but 'some' dickends don't quite get it.

I think Fat of The Land can still be seen in the UK Dance charts every now and again. Its funny how some people still think Kieth is the main front man in the group when he just started as a dancer in the first place back in the old skool chipmunk days....

For the tracks that Keith is vocals on, Does he write his own lyrics?

Also, His is kind of an interesting one as they have progressed. Going from originally a 'Dancer' to now being a vocalist and somewhat of an agitator. That's not to say it doesn't work for a band. There's the comparison to Happy Monday's with Bez or my favorite as of late, Shacho from Soil & "PIMP" Sessions. Some Bands need an agitator to actually seem good live, some enhance the show. Liam is no doubt the brains in the prodigy project. Keith is the Image though.

@Kwiddle: that's what I believed a long time :-D Thank youtube! And I also was believing a long time that Diesel Power was sung by Leeroy, bwah.

And yes, fat of the land is quite good and personally seen not dated.

No! The legend Kool Keith! Dr. Octagon! Brilliant!

I always understood that Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned was written and produced in a short period of time. There was that track Baby's Got A Temper which was more of a teaser track in anticipation of a new album that was to preceed Fat Of The Land... but that tease was just that - a tease. That album never came. Wasn't there an album made prior to Always Outnumbered that will never see the light of day because Liam was so displeased with it he scrapped the whole deal? Imagine spending upwards of 2 and 3 years working on an album and being so displeased you scrap the whole thing and start again from scratch.... how frustrating I mean, I may not have all my nitpicky facts straight, but if anyone's in the know and can correct me if I'm wrong - please do!

Anyway - I think Toby brought up some interesting points especially the bit about pantomine blood and scary haircuts (hahaha, so true!!) and Rynostar brought up a good point about the agitating stage presence.

Anyone who has seen Prodigy live can tell you they know how to work a crowd and get them all fired up and it's complete crowd pandemonium. They are, from what I heard, on top of their game when it comes to working it live.

I for one am one of those people that really enjoyed Fat Of The Land. It arrived on US shores during a time when electronic music was breaking huge over here. Turning on the radio (yes, I used to listen to the radio quite a bit) and hearing Firestarter was really exciting!! That high energy agression, the dancibility, those skidding and crunchy sounds - it was so different, not like anything else in its class. Another thing that drew me to that album is that it had a lot of elements that were like the industrial music I used to listen to. Even at that time, we were still going to industrial clubs and heading to raves and The Prodigy were a real successful crossover in that regard.

Whether Fat Of The Land was their peak is debateable. If you'd call commercial success and breaking the US market a "peak" then yes - I'd say Fat Of The Land illustrates a dance act at their prime.

I think part of the problem I had with Always Outnumbered (besides the obvious of me not liking that album) was the heinous wait. It's good to keep the consumers on their toes, but if you make someone wait long enough for something, they're going to move on as simple as that. I think that's partially what Toby alluded to. 5 years is an awful long time between albums. By the time Always Outnumbered came out, I was really excited to hear it but was really let down. It has nothing to do with Charlie, or with Fat Of The Land or comparing anything... it has more to do with having waited all that time for something I felt sounded quite shit to be honest. Like they were stagnating and holding onto this late 90's agression. Even for those who liked Always Outnumbered, come on. You know The Prodigy could have done better, and were capable of giving so much more.