Flogging Molly's New Release "FLOAT"

Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dave King was the vocalist for Fastway, a late 1980s – early 1990s heavy metal band, featuring guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke of Motörhead, and later an experimental metal band called Katmandu (1991), featuring Mandy Meyer of Krokus on guitars. Afterwards, Dave King retained a record deal with Epic records and began to work on a solo album, but began to reconsider his record deal when the label opposed his idea of bringing in traditional Irish instruments. King negotiated out of his record deal to go his own way musically soon after.
In the late nineties, King met former guitarist Ted Hutt, former bassist Jeff Peters, and fiddle player Bridget Regan. They wrote songs together such as Devils Dance Floor and Black Friday Rule, which was the beginning of Flogging Molly’s unique sound. Ted and Jeff left Flogging Molly because a prior band of theirs, Reach Around, received a record deal. Dave and Bridget then began to meet the new members one way or another, and band was slowly reformed, one by one.
They soon established a routine of playing every Monday night at an LA pub called Molly Malone’s. According to an interview with the Suicide Girls, then 17-year old Nathan Maxwell snuck into a show as a fan, and was later asked to join the band. They soon put out a live album, Alive Behind the Green Door in 1997. In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, King stated that the band’s name comes from the bar that faithfully supported the band from the very beginning, “We used to play there every Monday night and we felt like we were flogging it to death, so we called the band Flogging Molly.” They were signed onto SideOneDummy Records after a show when the record company’s owners attended a concert and noted their intensity.
With the amazing; Dave King on vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán, banjo, spoons~ Bridget Regan – fiddle, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, vocals~Dennis Casey – guitar, vocals~Matt Hensley – accordion, concertina~Nathen Maxwell – bass guitar, vocals~Bob Schmidt – mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, mandocello, octave vocals~George Schwindt – drums, percussion -Today the band if flourishing with a new release “Float“. This album is amazing! It’s funny I swear they wrote a song about my baby and me on this album. In any case Flogging Molly never ceases to amaze me. Truly this is one of the best bands of all time.