The Prodigy, headlining Hong Kong’s Clockenflap festival on Saturday November 18, have told the South China Morning Post they're working towards a follow up to 2015’s LP The Day is My Enemy.

Liam Howlett also told the paper that until quite recently he’d decided to forego making albums altogether: "I’m fed up with the whole ‘album’ thing now, I just prefer to write tunes and put them out in a different way."

However, it would appear the muses have other ideas. "You can’t help when songs get written," reflected Howlett. "A few ideas decided it was time."

Fans can expect new material to start appearing early in 2018, and should anticipate the tracks having more of an ‘oldschool’ flavour than other recent efforts.

Dating back to 2008, Clockenflap is recognised by many as southeast Asia’s premier music and arts festival. Past headliners have included the Chemical Brothers, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, Primal Scream, The Flaming Lips, the Libertines and Sigur Rós.

In the past the NME have credited the festival with not only bringing big international acts to that part of the world, but also in its efforts to give local indie bands a shot at the big stage.

This year Prodigy share the bill with Massive Attack, Stormzy, Kaiser Chiefs, The Dandy Warhols, Feist, Seth Troxler and more.

The South China Morning Post interview also revealed that incendiary frontman Flint (in the writers’ immortal phrasing ‘part Terminator, part Johnny Rotten’) runs a quiet country pub in his downtime from the group, and is frequently teased by regulars when its his turn to light the fire.

Because, y’know, he’s a twisted Firestarter.

Asked if the band ever contemplates retirement, Howlett replied "the live shows, seeing people react directly in front of you," is what keeps the band coming back for more.

"When we haven’t got anything left to buzz on, then we will quit – but we don’t think that far ahead."