Irish Pride

This week’s band hails from a bar room in Los Angeles. Their Irish influences over an American punk rock sound have become an international sensation. This band’s name is Flogging Molly.

Flogging Molly first started performing in the late 90′s in a bar in LA. It was a steady gig at a pub called Molly Malone’s. Thus when the seven members that make up the band decided to name themselves, they named themselves after the pub.

Flogging Molly’s music is classified as punk rock. However, they use Irish instruments and melodies to bring a Celtic overtone to the whole project.

Some examples of their music are, Drunken Lullabies, Seven Deadly Sins, and Salty Dog.

Another unique sound that the band is infamous for are drinking songs. For a band that has it’s roots in a bar, they do justice to the genre. Such songs as, Fuck You I’m Drunk, have very few instrumentals in them for the sole purpose that they’re meant to be chanted by groups of belligerently drunk people.

The band has a new album coming out this March called Float.