RS: So what's in your CD player right now?
Liam: TV On The Radio. I've only just found out about them because they're on Beggars Banquet which is part of our record label. They gave me the record and I just love it.
RS: How do you feel about having your track "Funky Shit" be the end credit music for the film Event Horizon?
Liam: I thought it was completely out of place. I liked the film, but I thought that the soundtrack should have been more consistent. I think the soundtrack was done by Orbital wasn't it?
RS: Yes, them and Michael Kamen.
Liam: I'm really weary of blockbuster films and don't usually approve many. I judge each thing on whether the visual aspects really enhances song, or the song enhances the visual thing. One usage that springs to mind is when we did Charlie's Angels with "Smack My Bitch Up." It was incredible to have literally taken part of that film and used it as the video to "Smack My Bitch Up" and it was just fucking great. The movie played on the cheeky humor that I thought the song had. I think that was a good usage.
RS: And that's funny, I was going to ask you about that next. One question about the last album, the video for "Baby's Got A Temper," what was the idea behind the milk and what did that symbolize to you?
Liam: Drug use. The cows were radioactive and milk was meant to be like a drug that made these people get into the band. That's basically what it resembled, it was a weird stage of The Prodigy. "Baby's Got A Temper" wasn't on the album The Fat of the Land it was inbetween these two albums. The best thing about that record was the artwork for the sleeve. I loved the artwork for the sleeve and everything else I wasn't really that excited about.
RS: Let's end where you began. Going back and listening to The Experience album, do you ever do that and how do you feel about it fifteen years later?
Liam: I think, I can't dance that fast. It's very nostalgic. I like to listen to it in a way that it brings back fond memories of us partying and just mad times of like early rave scene stuff, that was really exciting. I'd like to remix some of the tracks because they've got really good elements but they need to be slowed down and brought back to a more sensible tempo.
