I had only lived in Denver a few months when I met Virgil Dickenson from Suburban Home Records, owner of the label and guy in charge of Denver’s Punk Rock Bowling Tournament.It was 2002 and the teams, made up of local musicians and their friends dressed in costumes that mimicked Halloween, had gathered to determine […]
If you needed a single word to describe Flogging Molly’s live show it would be …fun! It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a show where the people in the far back of the place were dancing and throwing down just as hard the as ones in the front. This band’s energy is […]
You must love Flogging Molly. If you don’t know who Flogging Molly is by now, you’re missing out. This band puts on the best live show out there, guaranteed to make you dance, and their songs end up stuck in your head for days. You may already have “To Youth (Sweet Roisin Dubh)” stuck in […]
Dave King – vocal/acoustic guitarBridget Regan – fiddle/tin whistle/violinDennis Casey – guitarMatt Hensley – accordianNathen Maxwell – bassBob Schmidt – mandolin, banjoGeorge Schwindt – drums “A Guinness soaked musical body blow.” I snagged this from the Flogging Molly web site, but what better way to describe this band of merry men and woman who pack […]
Sometimes I think you need marathon training for these music festivals. To really cover a show, you need to have your stopwatch out and run from one stage to the next. So it was perplexing to wander inside and see such a mass of people sitting on the grass doing nothing with so much activity […]
