{"id":794085,"date":"2019-03-24T07:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T13:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=812521"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T13:01:55","slug":"the-prodigy-invite-fans-to-line-keith-flints-funeral-procession-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-prodigy-invite-fans-to-line-keith-flints-funeral-procession-route\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prodigy Invite Fans to Line Keith Flint\u2019s Funeral Procession Route"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Prodigy<\/a> have invited fans to take part in a funeral procession for Keith Flint<\/a> ahead of the singer\u2019s March 29th memorial service in Essex, England.<\/p>\n

Flint died by suicide<\/a> on March 4th at the age of 49; a coroner later revealed<\/a> that Flint hung himself in his Essex home. A toxicology report is still in the works, with a July 23rd hearing scheduled.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Prodigy mapped out the procession route ahead of Flint\u2019s private funeral for fans \u201cto pay their final respects & \u2018raise the roof\u2019 for Keef!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fans are invited to line the procession route, starting at 3pm in Braintree, Essex on Fri 29th March, to pay their final respects & ‘raise the roof’ for Keef!
If anyone wishes to lay flowers or tributes these should be sent to St Mary’s church in Bocking, no later than 2pm Friday pic.twitter.com\/cMTDv2jKi9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Prodigy (@the_prodigy) March 23, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Prodigy added<\/a>, \u201cThe church service will just be for family and close friends, but there will be speakers relaying the ceremony outside the church for everyone to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of Flint\u2019s death, the Prodigy cancelled all of their upcoming tour dates, including a handful of European festival dates. The electronic group is also scheduled to release a new single for \u201cFight Fire With Fire\u201d on Record Store Day.<\/p>\n

Flint first joined the Prodigy as a dancer, but eventually became the main singer and face of the group on 1997 album The Fat of the Land<\/em>, which produced the hits \u201cBreathe,\u201d \u201cFirestarter\u201d and \u201cSmack My Bitch Up.\u201d Flint would also appear on the cover of Rolling Stone<\/em> at the height of the band\u2019s popularity.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Prodigy have invited fans to take part in a funeral procession for Keith Flint ahead of the singer\u2019s March 29th memorial service in Essex, England. Flint died by suicide on March 4th at the age of 49; a coroner later revealed that Flint hung himself in his Essex home. A toxicology report is still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 23:47:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}