WHAT: Big Night Out featuring The Prodigy
VENUE: Fort Canning Park
WHEN: Tuesday
ATTENDANCE: 5,000

BRITISH big beat rockers The Prodigy have long bridged the gap between rave, punk and rock ’n’ roll.

Today, 18 years after their seminal single Charly was released, they are still providing a ferocious, hard-hitting sound.

The band – comprising musician and producer Liam Howlett, vocalist Keith Flint and MC Maxim Reality (real name Keith Palmer) – bristled with live-wire energy onstage launching into the dark hair-raising World’s On Fire from their upcoming fifth studio album, Invaders Must Die.

Throughout the 75-minute show, Maxim and Flint posed and preened, obviously exalting in the hyped-up crowd’s enthusiasm that steered the event from concert to riotous musical uprising.

The 5,000-strong crowd which Maxim termed “my Singapore warriors” began screaming in earnest and dancing frenetically when they launched into Their Law (from the techno-infused Music For The Jilted Generation released in 1994).

Mixing one hit seamlessly into the next, the band moved through tracks like Breathe (The Fat Of The Land, 1997), Poison (1994), Firestarter (1997) and Smack My B**** Up (1997).

At one point, Maxim stood arms akimbo, staring at the crowd as though daring them to join him, or take him on in battle. Then, he broke into a wide grin, acknowledging the heat of the moment and its passing.

Ultimately, The Prodigy have always appealed to what one might call their very own jilted generation – the disillusioned and those who have felt furiously disenfranchised somehow.

Judging by the sweaty, sated crowd leaving the park once the last single, Out Of Space (Experience, 1992), was played, it was clear that there will always be a jilted generation for The Prodigy to speak to.