Flogging Molly

[nycmermaid]

I ended up going to the show by myself last night, and I'm glad I did. I have seen few shows where everyone in the place was dancing and having such a great time. From the crazy drunks crowd surfing in the front to the teenagers moshing in the middle (in the biggest mosh pit I've seen in awhile) to the people dancing around in the back by the bar, the whole place had such a great fun energy. It's a typical complaint that New Yorkers don't dance at shows, they just stand and watch, but not at this show. During the break before the encore, I went to get my coat from the coat check ($4 an item and they tried to charge me for both my sweatshirt and my jacket - ugh) and when I came back upstairs, I stood in the back and watched them do "Black Friday Rule." Everyone was jumping and dancing and SMILING like you don't often see New Yorkers do. I only knew a few songs by Flogging Molly, but they played most of them, and it's really the kind of music where you don't need to know the words (though it's always more fun when you do) or even the songs to appreciate it because they're all in the same genre of punked-out Irish trad. I enjoyed them much more than Dropkick Murphys, who seem to have a much more teenage Warped-tour following and are more punk, plus the Murphys are Boston Irish-American and Flogging Molly is more directly Irish (though the Murphys do have bagpipes, always a plus). Flogging Molly is more like Black 47; the lead singer is also a redheaded transplant from Ireland, and their musical political rants are about Irish politics and the woes of growing up Irish Catholic. And there's a chick in the band who plays fiddle and tin whistle and things, which is cool. But they rock like the Murphys do, and it's a great show for jumping up and down and dancing and just having a great time. I'd love to see them again.

And the heavens were even kind enough to rain out the Met game so I didn't even have to miss that -- yay!

Oh and I forgot to mention, I got there in time to see most of Bedouin Soundclash, the opening band, and I liked them. And between the sets, they played some bits from a new comedy show that's going to be airing on Fuse (who sponsored the night) called The Whitest Kids U Know. It was pretty funny and nice to have something fun to watch between sets, a time that is usually tedious and boring.