{"id":339015,"date":"2026-03-10T16:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:08:16","slug":"keith-flints-devil-horned-bench-defended-by-braintree-reverend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339015\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Flint’s devil-horned bench defended by Braintree reverend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reid, who presided over Flint’s funeral in 2019, insisted people were “amazed” by the bench “and what it means to have it here”.<\/p>\n

More than 5,000 people attended the funeral after Flint was found dead at his home in North End<\/a> in March 2019.<\/p>\n

Band manager John Fairs and Prodigy founder Liam Howlett helped to design the tribute, later signed off by Flint’s family.<\/p>\n

“For local people here in Braintree and around, this means an awful lot,” Reid said.<\/p>\n

“They remember seeing [Flint and Howlett] on the dance floors in Braintree. They have followed them all the way through and they are proud.”<\/p>\n

The design of the seat was praised by many people commenting on the band’s Facebook post, external<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n

Flint already had a tribute in Braintree, where a mural of him was spray-painted<\/a> on to a water tank at Braintree Town Football Club’s ground.<\/p>\n

The Prodigy – who also include Liam Howlett and Keith Palmer (known as Maxim) – are staging a world tour in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reid, who presided over Flint’s funeral in 2019, insisted people were “amazed” by the bench “and what it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-339015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}