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Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish American Irish punk band, that formed in Los Angeles and is currently signed under SideOneDummy Records.

In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, singer Dave King revealed that the band's name comes from Molly Malone's, also known as the LA tarrier, an Irish pub in LA. "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." Flogging Molly started as King played Irish music in bars and pubs. They recruited more members until becoming the seven-person ensemble that they are today. Flogging Molly were signed onto SideOneDummy Records after a show when the record company's owners attended a concert and noted their intensity.

Flogging Molly music is influenced by such bands as The Pogues, The Dubliners, and Stiff Little Fingers, and the country twang of such legends as Johnny Cash. It includes many references to the Roman Catholic Church and ranges from boisterous punk rock like the pirate-themed "Salty Dog" and "Seven Deadly Sins," or the defiant "What's Left of the Flag", "With a Wonder and a Wild Desire", "Drunken Lullabies", and "Rebels of the Sacred Heart" to more sombre songs like "Far Away Boys", "The Son Never Shines (On Closed Doors)", or "Death Valley Queen". The driving forces behind the music tend to be King's gravelly voice and Regan's manic fiddling. Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dave King was the vocalist for Fastway, a late 80s-early 90s heavy metal band, featuring guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke of Motorhead, and 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 soon began work on a solo album, but when he wanted to pull traditional Irish instruments into the work, the record company resisted. King negotiated out of his record deal to go his own way musically soon after. In the late nineties, he met fiddle player Bridget Regan at Molly Malone's and they began playing together. Soon, the rest of Flogging Molly came together to the familiar line up. They soon established a routine of playing and put out their first album, a live album recorded at Molly Malone's titled Alive Behind The Green Door in 1997.

Drummer George Schwindt's brother, Gary, became their tour manager after leaving his job working for General Electric. Gary can be heard on the album Swagger, playing the trumpet, and is also seen in the documentary DVD Whiskey On A Sunday. Flogging Molly has released four studio albums, Swagger, Drunken Lullabies, Within a Mile of Home, and Whiskey on a Sunday DVD/cd combo, as well as an independent (26f Records) live album titled Alive Behind the Green Door. Flogging Molly have toured with the Warped Tour, Larry Kirwan's American Fléadh Festival and contributed to the Rock Against Bush project. Flogging Molly have become one of the biggest punk concert draws and have sold in excess of a million and a half copies of recorded output as of 12/06/06.

On March 13, 2007, Flogging Molly released an exclusive EP through iTunes entitled the Complete Control Sessions . The EP includes two new tracks, as well as acoustic versions of previously released songs. In an interview with a student reporter for University of Oklahoma press in Tulsa on March 15th, 2007, Nathen Maxwell confirmed that a new album is currently being written: "Yeah, we're working on a new album. We'll play three new songs tonight off of that album, probably. We've been hanging out at where Dave and Bridget live right now, in a village called Blackwater, which is in County Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland. So we've been staying there. We've been renting a cottage next door to their house and a friend of theirs' garage in the village. So we're going into the garage everyday basically, jamming out new ideas and then walking down to the pub afterwards. So we'll do another one of those in June. Then after that we'll be in the studio sometime in the summer and lay those down."

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