Keith Flint was born on 17 September 1969 in Redbridge, London, England.
Still, he had plenty of opportunities to get his motorbike fix at home, where he had a motocross course on his own property.Keith Flint was an English singer, dancer, and motorcycle racer. He didn't race with TTC himself, but served as the team's figurehead. "For me, everything - the driving, setting up in the paddock, the camaraderie with the people there - I love it," Flint said. In 2017, the team moved up from Supersport to the British Superbike Championship. TTC wasn't just an amateur team, either - their star rider Ian Hutchinson won two Isle of Man Supersport doubles in 20, as well as an Ulster GP race. He didn't really go back to it until 2010, when he founded the racing team Team Traction Control (TTC). I went riding with the local trail hunt, it was a ride out and NO ANIMALS WERE HUNTED OR KILLED, so my conscience is clear, it wasn't my thing and I won't be going again."Īccording to Motorcycle News, Flint's love of motorbikes came from his two older brothers, who used to take him to the bike meets in exchange for "a couple of quid." His early days learning to race were interrupted by a crash, which happened around the same time as The Prodigy was working on "Firestarter," so he quit racing for a while. Flint defended himself on The Prodigy's Facebook page: "Yes I live in Essex and have a couple of horses. "One year should do it." Which, okay, we get that fox hunting is barbaric but so are vague threats on social media by masked men, but whatever. "You still have a chance to change your ways, Keith," the masked man in the video warned. The group posted a video to YouTube in which they called Flint a "traitorous f*ckwit" and accused him of not being anti-establishment enough anymore, though evidently, Anonymous was still totally cool with his hair. In 2016, Billboard reported that Flint was targeted by the hacker collective Anonymous for allegedly participating in a fox hunt. So what sort of hobby would you imagine for a guy like Keith Flint? Barroom brawling, perhaps? Or maybe target shooting? Bungee jumping? Probably not fox hunting.īut hey, Flint was evidently game to try just about anything - much to the dismay of people who are against fox hunting. So in honor of his long and twisted career, here are a few things you may not have known about The Prodigy's front man. Yet tragically, Flint died before the band could embark on the next chapter in its history. And that was what fans loved about him.įlint seemed nowhere near finished with his career when he died - The Prodigy, which first became a thing in the early 1990s, had just released an album and had plans to tour in the United States in May 2019.
KEITH FLINT FULL
He was wild-eyed and so full of energy that he was like that supercharged guy in a horror film who is about to explosively shapeshift into the person-eating alien thing that's been incubating down in his guts somewhere. As the front man of the rave band The Prodigy, Flint was known for his brightly-colored horn-like double mohawk, the heavy black kohl around his eyes, and his punk rock mannerisms. He wasn't scary to those who knew him, but his on-stage persona was closer to Marilyn Manson or Alice Cooper than to other performers of his genre.
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