Keith Flint dead: Prodigy singer took part in 5K fun run two days before death

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Keith Flint took part in a 5k run two days before he was found dead at his home in Essex, it has emerged. Writing on their website following news of his death, the event’s organisers described Flint as “one of our newer runners”. “Our condolences and thoughts go to his family and friends at this sad time.” Flint was a tour de force in the British rave music scene in the 1990s, known for his bright green spiky hair, facial piercings and energetic, manic stage performances. The Prodigy become first dance band to headline Glastonbury in 1997 The singer wrote on Twitter: “At the Q Awards years ago, when Noel Gallagher was saying he was leaving Ibiza because I’d moved there, and Damon Albarn refused to be in the same picture as me, and Paul Weller was saying he’d rather eat his own shit than work with me, Keith Flint came over, gave me a hug, and said how thrilled he was for my success.