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.
