Flogging Molly

**Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:42 am**

http://www.fabchannel.com/floggingmolly

Live video of a gig last week

**Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:08 pm**

INDIE 103.1 & FUSE presents the Side One Dummy Tour with Flogging Molly, Bedouin Soundclash and Zox on Saturday, September 30th at the Bren Events Center at U.C. Irvine. We're letting you buy tickets before they go on sale. Go to ticketmaster.com anytime between Monday July 31st at 1 PM and Friday August 4th at 10 PM and use the password "INDIE" to grab your tickets before they go on sale.

**Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:07 pm**

Just heard Matt Hensley has quit the band. No real details yet but he always told that he wanted tp spend more time at home and that this band was not going to last forever for him but still qutie a shock for me

**Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:14 pm**

Mick Molloy wrote:Just heard Matt Hensley has quit the band. No real details yet but he always told that he wanted tp spend more time at home and that this band was not going to last forever for him but still qutie a shock for me

nothing on their website yet

**Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:30 pm**

I love this band, they always remind me of a younger, though obviously no less hungry, version of the Pogues. Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to see them live as yet, I was really hoping they'd be the support on last years Pogues tour, but it didn't happen, well never mind...

The three studio albums are essential listening, the live album and recent dvd perhaps less so, but still worthy.

Sadly, I'm old enough to remember Dave King back when he was in Fastway... :shock:

**Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:55 pm**

The new live/acoustic album is OK, but other than one studio track, it's nothing new. The DVD, on the other hand, is quite fun to watch. It really made me want to get my act together and get something accomplished in my life. At one point, Dave King goes into an explanation of Flogging Molly's influences, naming Johnny Cash and the Dubliners. Granted, they are both quite worthy sources of inspiration, but I found it funny that he negelected to mention the Pogues. I really believe that he consciously chose not to mention them because if he had, the audience would see that Flogging Molly isn't really doing anything horribly innovative. Don't get me wrong, they're a good band and I enjoy their songs (especially the lyrics), but I think they would like to maintain an aura of originallity that may not be rightly deserved.

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:31 pm**

AllBusiness37 wrote:The new live/acoustic album is OK, but other than one studio track, it's nothing new. The DVD, on the other hand, is quite fun to watch. It really made me want to get my act together and get something accomplished in my life. At one point, Dave King goes into an explanation of Flogging Molly's influences, naming Johnny Cash and the Dubliners. Granted, they are both quite worthy sources of inspiration, but I found it funny that he negelected to mention the Pogues. I really believe that he consciously chose not to mention them because if he had, the audience would see that Flogging Molly isn't really doing anything horribly innovative. Don't get me wrong, they're a good band and I enjoy their songs (especially the lyrics), but I think they would like to maintain an aura of originallity that may not be rightly deserved.

Agree with all of this and couldn't have put it better myself. I wore my 88 Pogues Tour shirt to both Molly gigs I've been too and at Brighton last year was right at the front when Dave King started rambling on about Johnny Cash - I kept shouting "What about the Pogues?" but to no avail. Unless they are all blind and stupid then they are deliberately neglectign to mention the Pogues when they name influences. They've ripped off the whole look and sound of the band and SHOULD GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. That said, the're a fuckign great band and I love all their records ... but come on boys, tell it like it is ... and don't forget The Men They Couldn't Hang.

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:50 pm**

Agreed, shipbuilder. Flogging Molly has neglected to mention the influences of the Pogues in any of their recent interviews, especially concerning the new live album/DVD. Dave King I guess, thinks there is a difference in the music that they play, with the possible exception of the usage of more fiddle; however the Pogues used this instrument in some of their songs as well, FM is nothing but a second rate Pogues rip off. I myself do enjoy their music, saw them live, but the energy of their live shows pales in comparison to their music. Dave King is no Shane MacGowan, and he really pisses me off when he doesn't acknowledge the importance of The Pogues on Irish rock. I mean eight guys playing traditional instruments really fast, hmmm where have I seen that before.

Big Bag of Bricks=Turkish Song of the Damned
Sentimental Johnny=Fiesta
Tobacco Island=Streams of Whiskey
The Wanderlust=The Sickbed of Cuchulainn

Iain

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:54 pm**

Yeah I also think that Whiskey in the Jar by Metallica really sounds like the one of Thin Lizzy :evil:

I hate when bands do that sort of things

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:28 pm**

shipbuilder wrote:
AllBusiness37 wrote:The new live/acoustic album is OK, but other than one studio track, it's nothing new. The DVD, on the other hand, is quite fun to watch. It really made me want to get my act together and get something accomplished in my life. At one point, Dave King goes into an explanation of Flogging Molly's influences, naming Johnny Cash and the Dubliners. Granted, they are both quite worthy sources of inspiration, but I found it funny that he negelected to mention the Pogues. I really believe that he consciously chose not to mention them because if he had, the audience would see that Flogging Molly isn't really doing anything horribly innovative. Don't get me wrong, they're a good band and I enjoy their songs (especially the lyrics), but I think they would like to maintain an aura of originallity that may not be rightly deserved.

Agree with all of this and couldn't have put it better myself. I wore my 88 Pogues Tour shirt to both Molly gigs I've been too and at Brighton last year was right at the front when Dave King started rambling on about Johnny Cash - I kept shouting "What about the Pogues?" but to no avail. Unless they are all blind and stupid then they are deliberately neglectign to mention the Pogues when they name influences. They've ripped off the whole look and sound of the band and SHOULD GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. That said, the're a fuckign great band and I love all their records ... but come on boys, tell it like it is ... and don't forget The Men They Couldn't Hang.

When i met Flogging Molly last year (in a record shop 100 meters from my house

and they where playing an acustic set of 4 songs befort the show at the night) i got a chat with them and we where talking alittle about the Pogues as well and they where saying that it´s sucha great band and of course thay hade influences from Them.

That said, i don´t think they are idiots, ofcourse they know that thay´ll be compared to The Pogues and ofcourse nothing can be as good as the original.

Can´t we just leave it there, why compare??????? They are doing 2 diffrent things. Even if Dubliners and Pogues do the same songs i never compare them, they all got there diffrent style.

Flogging Molly is a gret band But Pogues beat every other band by miles

(except for Dubliners, they are just one mile ahead off them :wink:

)

OK, start slagging me off then

Cheers
Johan

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:51 pm**

"Can´t we just leave it there, why compare??????? They are doing 2 diffrent things. Even if Dubliners and Pogues do the same songs i never compare them, they all got there diffrent style."

We'd never slag you off! I think the comparison is inevitable because of the similarities ... I love FM too but they just seem to have ignored the Pogues when it comes to discussing influences and I think that's wrong.

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:22 pm**

Ow by the way, Dave King and Bridget Regan were at the Dublin show

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:37 pm**

Mick Molloy wrote:Yeah I also think that Whiskey in the Jar by Metallica really sounds like the one of Thin Lizzy

Did Thin Lizzy's also sound like crap?

**Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:47 pm**

At least Thin Lizzy was Irish.

**Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:55 am**

True dat tyler

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