Shortly after Keith's passing, The Prodigy’s manager Nick Halkes – who managed them from the very beginning – described how the frontman had an “immense” onstage presence and was an “extraordinary performer”, while also being “witty, charming, pensive and mercurial”.
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“We’ve basically lost another amazing frontman," Download Festival booker Andy Copping told us. "I mean, you almost forget that with The Prodigy it has always been about their sound, but Keith orchestrated everything, and he was the focal point of the band. When most people think of The Prodigy they think of Keith. If you go back to when that Firestarter video first came out, and when we all first saw it, the character that Keith plays in that, I think elevated The Prodigy from what they were to this iconic and original band.”
On a personal level, Andy added that Keith "was always respectful; always a bit of a cheeky-chappy; always up for a laugh; he loved what he was doing and above everything just massively respectful. He always had time to say hello when I saw him. He would go, ‘Fucking Download is our favourite festival,’ and he never forgot what it meant them as a band and to him as a person. The festival took The Prodigy and Keith to their hearts and he never lost that – he always remembered that.”