The Prodigy, Alexandra Palace

It's not easy to pinpoint exactly who listens to The Prodigy these days. 22 years on from their debut Experience, Liam Howlett and co are still making the same brand of wild, unadulterated rave-techno that catapulted them to fame in the mid-90s, but they're certainly no longer playing to the same crowds.
After all, the ravers that flocked to Prodigy shows in the '90s for the uncompromisingly anti-establishment, angry-youth aesthetic that the band made their own are now well into their 40s (as is Mr Howlett himself), and The Prodigy have for years now been facing up to the difficulty of re-inventing their appeal to the sons and daughters of their original fans.
By 2004's Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned the band were straining to continue the runaway Stateside success of 97's genuinely excellent The Fat of the Land in the face of a shifting musical landscape, and with the release of 2009's Invaders Must Die – twelve tracks of vicious distortion and tired dance-rock – the idea that they might consider moving with the times was thrown resolutely out of the window.
'Comfort zone' seems like the wrong way to describe the snarling noise that Howlett seems to be able to turn out on a whim, but with the release of new single 'Nasty' – ahead of the new album The Day is My Enemy, slated for release in March – there is still no sense that he plans to move away from territory that even the most nostalgic fans must see by now is thoroughly worn-out.