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Jeez gutted to read this earlier. Big part of my teen years were spent playing prodigy songs. Devastated.
Its rare I'll bother to comment on a celebrity death but my heart sank a bit when that popped up on my phone earlier.
Started listening to them as a teenager when Charly came out and I'm pretty sure they are a bit responsible for some of the ringing in my ears now. Massive petrol head too, real shame 😥
Yeah, just cross posted. Very early, but it sounds like suicide
There's always one, isn't there?
I'm sure you're very proud of yourself getting in with that so early, and doubtless you'll be terribly smug if it turns out that your speculation happens to be on target.
Shit! Like many here it seems, their music was a real part of my life in the 90's.
RIP 🙁
It's not often I'm genuinely gutted when I hear about a celebrity passing. Feels like I'm going to be glum for a while.
Sad news. A real character and a nice guy by all accounts.Is he one of the first “rave” generation to go?
Guru Josh a few years ago.
Gary Haisman (D-Mob) last year.
Probably more too. Brandon Block is still going strong though, somehow.
Mark Bell (LFO) has gone.
Newsthump have come over all serious for once.
But a fire, once started, lights those who are warmed by its flames – and it is their duty to bear it forwards even when the spark has died, because in it we live forever.
Seems official now - took his own life
**** no. This is just awful. Life long Prodigy fan here. RIP Keith. Hope it was not suicide but that's irrevalent really. He's gone ; (
Real shame, so young.
Although apparently the life expectancy of a pro musician is late 50's to early 60's 😮
Maybe I need to reconsider my career choice.
Never a massive fan but remember catching them at Glastonbury '95, NME stage I think...blown away by their energy and performance, always had a bit of time them after that.
Sad news.
shit 🙁
I remember first seeing them at Dance '91 at Pickets Lock where they filmed bits of the Charly video.
I'll be dusting off the old vinyl tonight....
Liam has confirmed on instagram that it is suicide..what a shame. Properly epic music and live shows.
The first gig I ever went to was the Prodigy in Wolverhampton in 96.
My older brother took me, as I was too young at the time. I had an amazing, formative experience.
RIP Keith.
remember catching them at Glastonbury ’95, NME stage
Me too. Great show.
🙁
Sad to hear , a young age. Will be blasting out a few tunes today. Suicide between 30-50 in men is an overlooked statistic.
Terrible news...the band through my uni years and on. Gutted 😟
Not really my cup of tea but certainly I found my foot tapping more than once. Came across as a bit of a legend and music will be lessened by his death.
When I was 15 I owned one album, Jilted Gen. Hugh part of growing up.
I have thier first 10 singles on 12" they are getting a proper rinsing when I get home.
Such sad news. Like others a defining part of my youth.
Music for the jilted generation has to be in my top 100 of all time.
Very sad.
I was also at the 95 Glastonbury. I’m amazed I can remembertbh ,as it was particularly messy.
Somewhat after my time but, jeez, 49, that's no age.
RIP.
Omen to a full-sized festival crowd. Seismic.
Gutted beyond belief.
their warriors dance gig at mk remains and always will be one of the greatest nights I have had.
seeing 80000 people who are only there for the prodigy going mental at the music was just amazing
"Experience: Expanded" just getting louder and ****ing louder in my office today. Tough shit, neighbours.
Let's jet out, we'll cruise at hyperspeed
I got the beat, I got the beat
And that's all we need check it out!
Saw them at various festivals over the years, and 'Fat of the Land' and 'The Day is My Enemy' are regularly on my mp3 player (great to run to!).
Glasto 97, I remember them storming off after some of the crowd threw mud.
Reading 98, they were on before the Beastie Boys, who'd recently (incorrectly?) criticised "Smack my Bitch Up" as being misogynistic (which seemed ironic for the Beasties to complain about) - there was clearly no love lost between both bands.
Can't remember when I next saw them, possibly a V Festival one year. Whenever it was, I didn't think it would be the last time.
There’s always one, isn’t there?
I’m sure you’re very proud of yourself getting in with that so early, and doubtless you’ll be terribly smug if it turns out that your speculation happens to be on target.
🙄
F*****g gutted to hear the news.
Only last week I was thinking I need to get their latest album.
Saw them live at V fest some years ago.
The group I was with all wanted to see Oasis, so I left them to it and had a great time watching
Prodigy. Such energy, the place was bouncing!!
RIP Keith.
That's awfully sad to hear, though I can understand why. It's easy enough to say people should talk but when are we going to listen instead of dismissing people who are depressed as high maintenance?
Wasn't a huge fan but saw them live a few times and had a lot of fun to their music.
However, I do think that the inner cover of Music For The Jilted Generation is right up there with the worst artwork ever to grace a record sleeve. I know it was a different, more idealistic time but my god this is awful
RIP Keith
there's nothing wrong with that artwork. It's about the criminal justice bill, which made outside raves illegal.
Lets not destroy this thread.
I think the artwork nicely sums up what was going on for me and a lot of my friends at the time. Sad news.
Sad. Memories of bombing along in my old VW camper in the 90s on the way to Santa Pod and Run To The Sun with their music so load the engine could've blown up and all the wheels fallen off and we wouldn't have known about it until we came to a stop.
there’s nothing wrong with that artwork. It’s about the criminal justice bill, which made outside raves illegal.
I know what it's about, I was there dancing at them. Just think it's a terrible bit of art
Very sad about keith. Whenever these happen it's usually 'no comment' and the suspicion is usually (accidental) drug overdose. Odd that they've confirmed suicide publically - all the more so given there seemed to be no impression in public that he was 'troubled'.
Incredibly sad.
I was about to post that I loved that inner sleeve artwork... it kind of summed up the whole rave generation feeling for me. Happy days.
Playing 3 Kilos and welling up. RIP Keith.
Been a fan since I first heard Charly. At the time we were also sampling and mashing around with beats and samples using an Amiga ST plus a few synths (Juno 6 oh how I miss you) and a Roland TR-606 (why did I ever sell you).
But for me the stand out tune, the one that still makes the hairs on the back of my neck tingle even as I write this is Skylined from Jilted Generation. I'm a bit of a sucker for strings and it brings back so many memories of standing in fields.
Remember the Criminal Justice Bill, shows how scared the authorities were at the time, banning groups from assembling and trying to define a form of music purely as having a "repetitive beat" snuck quietly into the Bill going through, seems ridiculous now.
The artwork may seem daft, but it summed things up then, and you have to remember the whole scene was driven by the flyer, all the flyers for the raves were bright and day-glo, with the acid smiley and similar, they weren't works of art but they were part of parcel of it all.
Recently went through a box in my mum's loft full of those tape-packs you used to get, with 6 or 8 cassettes in there and the flyers to go with them, made this middle aged man quite nostalgic for simpler times.
Can still remember 1994, 14 year old, on the train home from town listening to a newly bought Jilted Generation while looking at that artwork.
Then there was the summer holiday to Centre Parks Sherwood Forest that year, fishing for carp by day and 'being sociable' at night. Happy days.
That artwork is awesome. We bought one of the limited edition signed prints that were available a couple of years ago.
Sad day.
My first gig was the Proj in 94, Livingston forum, great night.
Numbnut - I was there too. RIP Keith.