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Carl Cox opens The Prodigy’s UK tour with a three-deck vinyl rave set
Carl Cox kicked off The Prodigy‘s UK and Ireland arena tour on April 15 in Glasgow. The veteran opened with a two-hour three-deck vinyl set at the OVO Hydro. Furthermore, he returned to the format that first linked him to The Prodigy on the original Experience tour circuit. Few sets land with that much lineage.
Cox leaned hard into classic hardcore and rave cuts for the opener. He dropped ‘Raise Me (Ascension Mix)’ by Bizarre Inc, then ‘Frequency (Original 1991 Version)’ by Altern 8. Notably, ‘Move Your Body (12-inch Mix)’ by Xpansions 95 also landed in the run. Meanwhile, three turntables let him cut between records in real time, layering breaks and stabs across a single arena-sized build.
The tour runs through April into early May across the UK and Ireland. The bill rolls through Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bournemouth, Leeds and Belfast. Crucially, two nights at Wembley’s OVO Arena land on April 24 and 25. The run closes in Dublin on April 28. Moreover, promoters later added Nottingham Motorpoint Arena on May 1 and Newcastle Utilita Arena on May 2. The first ten shows sold out almost instantly.
Indeed, the pairing makes immediate sense. Carl Cox helped shape the UK rave sound that The Prodigy then broke into mainstream culture. In short, a Cox vinyl opener plus a live Prodigy show is a serious billing. It wraps three decades of British dance music into one night. Early footage from Glasgow has already flooded social feeds. Watch clips and reactions from the opening night below.
