Flogging Molly - more photos... photo by John Hargraft - staff photographer |
by john hargraft - clubkingsnake staff
Flogging Molly
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
http://www.floggingmolly.com/
Flogging Molly Concert Photos
Monday February 18, 2008
The Kool Haus (Toronto, Ontario)
Flogging Molly is a septet out of L.A playing an Irish folk/punk rock blend. With a touch of the Pogues, the Clash and perhaps some Stiff Little Fingers they have crafted their sound to be their own.
Monday night, a new holiday in Ontario known as Family Day, at the Kool Haus was packed. A sold out all ages show on a week day must have had something to do with college reading week.
The first thing security told me as I entered the photo pit in front of the stage was if I got a tap on the back to watch out for crowd surfers. Some good advice as Flogging Molly came out and jumped right into "Selfish Man" off their first studio album
Swagger. The bodies came sailing hard and fast. The crowd was hyped and besides the bodies flying so were the beer cans. A fellow photographer got one can in the head about 30 seconds into it.
With four studio albums to their credit the band was out to promote their most recent release
Float. Six tracks off the new release mixed well with the three previous records. Another six songs came from the
Swagger album, five off of disc two
Drunken Lullabies and
Within a Mile of Home getting four of the night’s tunes. A great mix of songs from all of their releases showing the band likes to give the fans a bit of it all.
Flogging Molly - more photos... photo by John Hargraft - staff photographer |
The crowd stayed excited and into it the whole show. People were dancing where ever they could find room. All age groups were there from teens to couples that could have been the under-agers grandparents.
As the lights went down the crowd was screaming for more and Flogging Molly was back in a flash to please them. Black Friday Rule from their first disc opened the encore to great applause. The finale song was best saved for last as Seven Deadly Sins is one of my personal favorites and ended the show just right.