Keith Flint

Keith Charles Flint (born 27 March 1969 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is a member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy. Flint was born and raised in Chelmsford, Essex. In the late 1980s he met the DJ Liam Howlett in a rave club and expressed his appreciation of Howlett's taste in music. After receiving a mixtape from Liam Howlett, the tapes B side had a few of Liam's own tracks on it that he made in his bedroom studio 'Earthbound'. Keith came back to Liam with great enthusiasm, insisting that Liam should be playing his tracks up on stage, and that Keith himself and his friend Leeroy Thornhill would dance to them. Soon after, in 1990, he joined Howlett's new project, The Prodigy. Originally he was only a dancer, but in 1996 he was the vocalist on the hit single "Firestarter". The accompanying video showcased Flint's new, punk look. This trend continued with the next Prodigy single "Breathe", on which Flint again performed the lead vocals. The 1997 album The Fat of the Land featured Flint's vocal contributions to several tracks. In 2002 the single "Baby's Got a Temper" was released. It was heavily influenced by Flint's punk style, which lead to Howlett later discrediting the song as representing The Prodigy. On the next Prodigy album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), Flint did not perform any vocals, although he did sing on one of the tracks on the "Hotride" single. Flint has also experimented with several side projects, including the bands Flint and Clever Brains Frying. The video for "Firestarter" as well as Flint's outlandish appearance were later parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic on his eponymous television show. In one episode, Al flips through channels and happens upon a made-up version of himself dressed identically to Flint. He is heard singing: "I'm so angry at my idiotic barber / Got a stupid hair-cut, a really stupid hair-cut."

References

TheProdigy.info » Prodigy members / Keith Flint. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.

External links

• Keith Flint at the Internet Movie Database