![]() ![]() It is seven years since the last Prodigy album, the 8.5 million-selling The Fat of the Land, and four years since Howlett embarked upon making its follow-up. His turn of phrase can make the simple act of sampling an old record sound surprisingly disturbing: "I like taking other people's shit," he says, "and squeezing it and moulding it." Perhaps his good humour is down to relief. The closest he comes to doing anything outrageous is drowning a wasp in his bottle of Smirnoff Ice, unless you count his heroic dedication to swearing, which would impress even his prospective brother-in-law, Liam Gallagher (He is married to former All Saints star Natalie Appleton, whose sister Nicole is Gallagher's partner.) During one spirited assault on the state of contemporary music, Howlett manages to use the word "fucking" 14 times in six sentences. And yet, as he lounges on a roof terrace in Camden, Howlett seems a veritable picture of softly spoken contentment. ![]() The band's members have engaged in public slanging matches with the Beastie Boys and Moby, artists perturbed by the title of the Prodigy's 1997 hit, Smack My Bitch Up. They have caused enough controversy to garner comparisons with the Sex Pistols: the mere sight of Prodigy vocalist Keith Flint in the video for their 1996 number-one Firestarter - head shaved down the middle, remaining hair fashioned into two red spikes, make-up smeared face a pantomime of ridiculous snarls and gurns - was enough to provoke a storm of outraged calls to Top of the Pops. Over the years, the records the Prodigy have released have been accused of everything from inciting arson to condoning domestic violence. F or someone who has made his fortune out of disturbingly angry music, Liam Howlett does not look terribly angst-ridden. ![]()
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