It must be nearly 20 years since I last saw The Prodigy at the BIC and not much has changed. This is a good thing.

While the music has evolved, the primal energy and raw aggression of the live show is undiluted. The beats are hard, even brutal tonight.

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As a statement of intent, the band wheel out the big guns early with Breathe and Firestarter dispatched in the first half hour.

These are uncompromising tracks, but they sound distinctly airy against the new material from recent number one album, The Day Is My Enemy.

New hits such as Nasty, Rok-Weiler and Wild Frontier are punishing. Thankfully, the packed audience are more than a match for the sonic assault.

While chief songwriter Liam Howlett is content to conduct the madness from behind a bank of synths and a laptop. It’s left to frontmen Maxim and Keith Flint to prowl the stage and goad the audience into pushing themselves further.

At times the seething audience resembled the eye of a storm with Maxim chanting “round and round you go”, as a swirling mosh pit engulfed the Windsor Hall. Updated reworking’s of 90’s dance staples like Voodoo People and Smack My Bitch Up succeeded in finishing off the job.

By the encore, it was left to Their Law and the aptly named, Take Me To The Hospital to send everyone home sweaty, bruised but smiling.