Take me to the cinema! The Prodigy bring their headline performance at Milton Keynes last summer to the big screen… for one day only! Thursday the 31st of March is the day where selected cinemas across the world will be showing the epic performance by MOBO Award winners and Britain’s finest break beat trio for the feature length movie World's On Fire. This MOBO reporter was lucky enough to be privy to a private screening of the show…and it doesn’t disappoint.

Starting off with a short movie of Keith Flint, Liam Howlett and Maxim in Brazil (only 10 months prior to the penultimate night in England) describing how much they love performing all over the world. With a live showing of their song Spitfire in the heart of Sao Paulo cutting into their feed and glimpses of a scary psychedelic Keith raring the crowd before him, the group describe how they are still down to earth 20 years into the business - with tour bus that has seen better days being The Prodigy’s chosen mode of transport across Brazil.

From the beautiful paradise of the Atlantic to the less exotic surroundings of the south of England where the director of World’s On Fire Paul Dugdale describes how activities such as Ballroom dancing, nude drawings and libraries are the apparent focus of the inhabitants of Milton Keynes. That is until The Prodigy came to town.

Showing just over an hour of their set, you see in-depth coverage of what it was like for 65,000 lucky souls on that fateful day last July. With an adrenalin rush of tracks from their eye boggling catalogue, anyone and everyone could appreciate the intensity these 40 years plus lads deliver, not only based on this performance but week in week out. Breathe, Firestarter, Omen, Warrior’s Dance and Thunder are all blasted out of the screen with Keith running the stage… literally back and forth like a clocks pendulum.

The amazing thing about this movie performance compared to other features is how it captures the feel of a rave perfectly. How the powerful performance comes through from The Prodigy and the energy from the crowd makes you want to get out of your seat and start a mosh pit in the theatre is truly unbelievable in itself and a feat Keith, Maxim and Liam have managed to deliver.

Whether it was the pitch black forecast after a song and 60,000 phone lights keeping the National Bowl alight, or the whole crowd kneeling then jumping when the beat dropped during the song Smack My Bitch Up, the show is well worthy of its cinematic debut and as Liam said ‘The Prodigy belongs to the people’.

So get down to a cinema showing World’s On Fire this Thursday as you won’t get the same experience you would get on the screen at home. One last point, don’t leave your seat until you watch past the credits. Why? Well that’s a surprise…

Words: Dean Woodhouse