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Keith Flint of The Prodigy RIP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    Have always loved the Prodigy. Remember hearing (and taping) Charly off the radio in 91 and loving it. Never got to see them live due to a combination of my friends not really liking them/me hating festivals but got back into them in the late 00s after I bought a couple of albums for my husband who absolutely loved them too.

    RIP Keith, far too young to go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    His music is music but he as a person deserved to be treated with respect and as a recon captain for the British armed forces he’s basically a much tougher man than those spas.
    No arguments there.

    I'd say they got lots of kudos at the time though, including from people who act all appalled now. Until James showed what a self deprecating and decent guy he is via social media, he was totally fair game (being a "squaddie" would have only added to the contempt).


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Of all the banal clichés, that's the dopiest one by far

    Speaking as someone who has experienced suicidal thoughts, that phrase has always really resonated with me and has helped me.

    So yeah, go ahead and dismiss 'chichés' that actually help people with depression - your post is coming off as being the 'dopiest' one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,038 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Taken Saturday morning. He ran his PB in a 5k.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭bobsman


    Slightly off topic but James blunt is hilarious on twitter :D

    Keith looks very healthy at that race ....poor guy


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    The what now???

    A load of insensitive nonsense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭kooga


    I put these in the car this morning for my drive - cant believe jilted cd is 25 years old !


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I've been listening to The Prodigy all day. Jilted is such an incredible album.
    Poisin, my days, what a f*cking song.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I've been listening to The Prodigy all day. Jilted is such an incredible album.
    Poisin, my days, what a f*cking song.

    I remember as a teenager hearing tracks like poison and voodoo people and thinking “I’ve never heard such sounds before”. Amazing production skills from Howlett


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I've been listening to The Prodigy all day. Jilted is such an incredible album.
    Poisin, my days, what a f*cking song.

    I've been rocking to Voodoo People. :cool::cool:


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I remember as a teenager hearing tracks like poison and voodoo people and thinking “I’ve never heard such sounds before”. Amazing production skills from Howlett


    Yep, the first 3 albums were insane in terms of production


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I've been rocking to Voodoo People. :cool::cool:


    Another classic song, when I was younger I didn't have enough cash on me to buy and album so I bought the Voodoo CD single. It was like a mini album


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    ...Another classic song, when I was younger I didn't have enough cash on me to buy and album so I bought the Voodoo CD single. It was like a mini album...

    RTE used to use that as the intro theme for their F1 coverage some years back, IIRC when Peter Collins was commentating. How cool! :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    h3000 wrote: »
    I remember listening to a gig they did that 2FM (I think) broadcast I think live back a long time ago. Pretty sure it was during Music For The Jilted Generation time. Bopping away in my parents garage on a ****ty stereo with awful reception.

    Pretty sure this is the gig I was talking about. The Prodigy - Live The Point Depot Dublin Ireland 31-12-1994
    https://soundcloud.com/magpie303/the-prodigy-live-the-point

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,926 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Reading some of the stuff in here would bring a tear to your eye.

    The bloke clearly touched many, his energy and enthusiasm for what he did was incredible. I am going to miss him a lot.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    Gintonious wrote: »
    Reading some of the stuff in here would bring a tear to your eye.

    The bloke clearly touched many, his energy and enthusiasm for what he did was incredible. I am going to miss him a lot.

    Couldn't sleep last night thinking about it. Very sad.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 518 ✭✭✭Ironman76


    h3000 wrote: »
    Pretty sure this is the gig I was talking about. The Prodigy - Live The Point Depot Dublin Ireland 31-12-1994
    https://soundcloud.com/magpie303/the-prodigy-live-the-point

    Wow, I remember that gig so well. It was my favourite Prodigy gig (followed by the one in Olympia ten years later).

    That was the one where they had the giant fly that descended down from the ceiling. (21.00 onwards, amazing stuff).

    Keith came out at the start in a glass box and emerged in a straight jacket falling all over the stage.

    What I loved about Prodigy gigs is you got to hear unreleased stuff you wouldnt hear on albums etc.

    I almost got dragged up on stage at this one but was gutted not to, but Keith himself dragged me up the year after when they finished the night with "No Good". Have a load of old photos at home from Prodigy gigs, must dig them out.

    Really great times. Liam was the brains but Keith was always the heart and soul of The Prodigy. was such a showman, cant imagine the gigs without him . . so sad :(


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,897 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I was just playing Out Of Space on my phone on Friday. Saw The Prodigy at Felie '94. They put on a fantastic show. For my generation The Prodigy were an iconic band. Their music helped define the 90s.

    Rest in Peace Keith.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,926 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt




    This is well worth your time to watch. Love hearing him talking about how it all started. Sounded like such a great time for him.

    I am finding it very heard to listen to the Prodigy today... :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 Tomhammer


    I only listened to a few prodigy songs

    I would have been more aware of him because of his involvement with the bikes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭kooga


    one of the guys who works with me as the prodigy experience on tape ! we had a bit of a listen in the Carina E at lunch time - so many posters here have their cds pictures posters etc - something tangible you can touch - all this predated spotify and streaming - much simpler times and everyone here can remember when they bought that prodigy tape, cd and where - many of these shops are now long gone. RIP again Keith


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    I hope the Prodigy don't split without him, I understand completely if Liam wants to call it a day or have an elongated break after this but I hope he continues on, for Keith's sake....

    Too early to say and no one knows what's going on yet, I know a lad fairly close to the band and as you can imagine he's distraught...

    Time for the Ian Paisley bootleg :



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    LP Singleshttps://imgur.com/gallery/v8zAM9x

    v8zAM9x

    I can't find my Experince tape from back in the day. I've kept these safe though.

    EDIT. sorry I couldn't post a pic directly, I'm not great at this stuff!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I've been listening to The Prodigy all day. Jilted is such an incredible album.
    Poisin, my days, what a f*cking song.
    "Keef, someone on the phone for ya"

    I have no idea how that opening line has always stuck in my head so much but it came out when I was 9, everyones older brother was mad into them, and we were really starting to get the itch as well. Always figured the lyrics to it were meant to be the phone convo.

    What are the odds, tomorrow will be the 24th anniversary of the single - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_(The_Prodigy_song)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,038 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Actually "Liam, someone on the phone for ya".


    "Aw fúcks sake...."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    The Nal wrote: »
    Actually "Liam, someone on the phone for ya".


    "Aw fúcks sake...."

    "Trying to write this facking tune innit"

    Boom cha boom boom, cha

    Boom cha cha boom cha


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭illdoit2morrow




  • Registered Users Posts: 340 ✭✭Calltocall


    Nice tweet from James Blunt about Keith Flint, fair play, sounded like a top bloke, far too much of this these days, R.I.P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Liam, someone on the phone for ya

    Aw **** sake..trynna write this fvckin tune man


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    This is now one of my most prized possessions. The last thing Keith and The Prodigy as we knew them autographed.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


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    Blunt was an active recon team captain in the Kosovo war.
    I always thought his motr sound was beautiful in contrast to that. Any respect that I had for the idiots in that story is eroded and my sadness that Keith Flint ended his journey with us continues.

    Oasis is just pop music and the Jam were short lived.

    It’s an interesting, nice tweet but I have to say, I don’t really care what the personalities are like of people whose art I’m a fan of. I’ve always known Albarn was a twerp but I love so much of his music. I’m never going to meet these people and I’m not going to not like the sound of someone’s music just because their personality might be a bit objectionable.

    Blunt is funny on Twitter but his music is really brutal and I bet many people here would have been dismissive of him if they met him when his music was in the charts. Let’s not pretend credibility isn’t important in the music business. Even mid-‘00s Oasis would have been seen as more credible, mostly down to their early work.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    Saw The Prodigy a few times over the years, going back to new years eve concerts in the 90s.
    Great gigs.
    Just watched this...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RYxOsvWrJA

    Watch the crowd, having the time of their lives, jumping around lost in the moment.
    I feel blessed to have been a teenager in the 90s.


  • Registered Users Posts: 340 ✭✭Calltocall


    It’s an interesting, nice tweet but I have to say, I don’t really care what the personalities are like of people whose art I’m a fan of. I’ve always known Albarn was a twerp but I love so much of his music. I’m never going to meet these people and I’m not going to not like the sound of someone’s music just because their personality might be a bit objectionable.

    Blunt is funny on Twitter but his music is really brutal and I bet many people here would have been dismissive of him if they met him when his music was in the charts. Let’s not pretend credibility isn’t important in the music business. Even mid-‘00s Oasis would have been seen as more credible, mostly down to their early work.

    Fair point but it shows Flint in a really positive light to the others as an individual as his music was a million miles away from blunts, hardcore in your face don’t give a **** but still could put his arm around the guy and didn’t allow his persona get in the way of being just a decent bloke wheras the others are kinda fake as they couldn’t allow their image being dented by sharing a pic/stage with blunt yet flint didn’t give a ****, really cool guy, authentic, such a shame, world needs more keith flints.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Another 1990s idle gone to the far side. Very shocked at his passing. I grew up as a teenager with their music & loved it.

    I always enjoyed his take on the rave years...



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Another 1990s idle gone to the far side. Very shocked at his passing. I grew up as a teenager with their music & loved it.

    I always enjoyed his take on the rave years...


    Greed killed it. Familiar story, nice to hear it from Keith's perspective though.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭VeryTerry



    This one is massive.

    https://g.co/kgs/pDb9wA


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    VeryTerry wrote: »
    This one is massive.

    https://g.co/kgs/pDb9wA

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i presume he'll be cremated?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    fryup wrote: »
    i presume he'll be cremated?

    Ah now.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭kooga


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Another 1990s idle gone to the far side. Very shocked at his passing. I grew up as a teenager with their music & loved it.

    I always enjoyed his take on the rave years...



    whats the backing track that plays around 2 mins in - I know it but I cant think of it thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,038 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    https://www.facebook.com/theprodigyofficial/posts/10156991931273249

    Following the tragic death of Keith Flint all forthcoming Prodigy shows will be cancelled with immediate effect.

    TheProdigyHQ


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    kooga wrote: »
    whats the backing track that plays around 2 mins in - I know it but I cant think of it thanks

    It's Rez by underworld.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,038 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Its occurred to me that people think Keith wrote a lot/all of the music. People (Leo Varadkar :rolleyes:) tweeting how he loved Jilted. I had as much input on that album as Keith did.

    Not to disrespect Keith but at least reference an album Keith did something on. Fat of the Land, Invaders etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    The Nal wrote: »
    Its occurred to me that people think Keith wrote a lot/all of the music. People (Leo Varadkar :rolleyes:) tweeting how he loved Jilted. I had as much input on that album as Keith did.

    Not to disrespect Keith but at least reference an album Keith did something on. Fat of the Land, Invaders etc.

    Can't imagine Varadkar rolling around the floor necking bangers listening to the Prodigy in 94 for some reason...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Fieldog wrote: »
    Can't imagine Varadkar rolling around the floor necking bangers listening to the Prodigy in 94 for some reason...

    I can. He goes to music festivals frequently. He was seen walking topless around Body & Soul last year!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    I can. He goes to music festivals frequently. He was seen walking topless around Body & Soul last year!

    I've seen him at said festival's myself, remember he turned up backstage at LCD soundsystem gig in the Olympia, that one was a bit awkward... :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Fieldog wrote: »
    I've seen him at said festival's myself, remember he turned up backstage at LCD soundsystem gig in the Olympia, that one was a bit awkward... :)

    We can't criticise him for his taste in music anyway :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    He was seen walking topless around Body & Soul last year!

    He was there alright. But I doubt he was topless.


  • Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭room_149


    This news has hit me hard-

    I've been a fan of Keith & the lads since they were a 'mere' Live Rave PA at the likes of 'Amnesia House' & 'Universe' (Huge Raves - best years of my life!!) back in the day, banging out the breakbeats, bleeps and basslines!!
    Never did I think they'd end up becoming NME Indie/ Rock darlings- let alone global icons, when they were sharing the stage with the the likes N-Joi, Altern-8, the Ragga Twins or fecking Dream Frequency :) !!

    My favourite era of them was the post rave 93 - 95 era (when the UK Rave scene fragmented & mutated into all the various different subgenres/ sub scenes) & they emerged with the likes of Leftfield, Underworld, the Dust Brothers (Now the Chemical Bros) & Orbital etc to wow all the Rock & Indie Kids at Festivals.
    During that time they had more of an edgier sound IMHO & I lost a bit of interest in their output later on in the 90s during the Fat of the land- Big Beat years when the US & MTV started to notice them more.
    That said, I still enjoyed the last few LPs but probably preferred remixes of their output more if I'm honest (Was blasting the 'Teddy Killerz' remix of We Live Forever' out of the car earlier!!!)
    My raving days are pretty much over now but am now glad I caught them at the Picnic last September. Still as vital as ever- they rocked the place!!!

    I hope they put together one last show at Glastonbury this year- perhaps get some of their old mates, contemporaries & cohorts from BITD involved & give Keith a huge send-off?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    Not sure if this has been posted already, this interview with the band is from November 18. Keith looks lost.



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