Flint (band)

Flint was a solo project of Keith Flint of the The Prodigy. The band had four members; Keith on vocals, Jim Davies (Prodigy live guitar, ex-Pitchshifter) on guitar, Kieron Pepper (Prodigy live drummer, ex-RealTV, ex-Happy Gilmore) and Tony Howlett (co-wrote Baby's Got a Temper, but not related to Liam Howlett) (both) on drums. Kieron's role in Flint band was to be the bassist on recordings, but when the band played live he sat was a drummer, leaving the bass to Rob Holliday. They performed several gigs - their first live gig was a brief set at England's Download Festival on June 1 2003. Their first release, 'Asteroids', was released as a limited edition single sided pink 10" vinyl in May 2003. Their first official single, Aim 4, was released on July 14 2003. The video for the single was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who also directed Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up, among others. Following the release of Aim 4, the band planned to release their debut album Device #1 on July 28 2003, but the album release was cancelled. Later in 2003, the band decided to split up. Keith has a new solo project called Clever Brains Fryin. Flint has also remixed Marilyn Manson's mOBSCENE to the extent that Keith performed vocals for the remix. The following text was found from the official Marilyn Manson pages: "Pay attention! In London, we vandalized a Versace billboard with two gigantic Marilyn Mice and had an amazing crowd sing along to the three piano numbers. Keith Flint (The Prodigy) presented me with his new band’s remix of mOBSCENE on which he sings. We discussed illegal behavior, participated in illegal behavior and became the best of friends over a bottle of Absinthe." ~ Marilyn Manson 21 April 2003

Discography

Albums

• Device No.1 (2003) - Aborted

Originally, it would contain 12 punk/rock genre tracks, but it was cancelled. On 28th July, a Device No.1 Promo disc was released in limited edition around the UK. Contained ten tracks, like:

1. "Asteroids (3:09)"
2. "Piggy (3:09)"
3. "Laughs (3:30)"
4. "Aim 4 (2:58)"
5. "Kamikaze (4:26)"
6. "Prescription (3:30)"
7. "Ju Lu (3:32)"
8. "Femme Fatale (3:11)"
9. "Vacation (3:28)"
10. "Razor (NNNN) (3:49)"

The full disc's content would go like this, plus 2 other tracks:

1. "Hell Yeah"
2. "Inflow"

Singles

• Asteroids - single sided pink vinyl limited to 2000 copies

The disc released on 19th May, 2003 and only contained "Asteroids"

• Aim 4

Released with the Device No.1 Promo, on 28th July, 2003.

1. "Aim 4 (2:58)"
2. "Danny (2:40)"
3. "Asteroids (3:09)"
4. "Aim 4 (Video)"

Trivia

• The song "Aim 4" has been used as the title music for the German version of Hellsing.