You don’t necessarily need to go back to the beginning, but you need to remember what was there at the beginning that gave you the spark to go forward as a band. It’s about having the great songs, but setting aside all of the bullshit that can come with them. That was the last album we made and they are mistakes that we won’t repeat. “In the end, though, it’s just an experience to learn from. Our torture was to go back to the place where we recorded Float – probably our favourite recording experience, as you’ll see later – hoping to rediscover that sense of joy, and to have that experience by all these different circumstances we found ourselves in. “I do love those songs – I listened back to them in my kitchen just last night – but every band has that album where it was punishing to make. There were egos beyond the band, though – people sitting behind desks, shall we say – who were fighting each other, which made things quite uncomfortable. The soul of the band was never lost in that. It’s a record we went into with a sense of joy. “It’s a collection of songs that I’m so proud of, as a songwriter, but the process of actually making the album was an ordeal. The title mirrors that same idea of brushing over the negatives and trying to feel better than the situation you find yourself in. She had a hard life but she always enjoyed it. But, at the same time, it reflected an outlook I learned from my mother. “There is an irony in the title of our last album that some fans might’ve missed out on. It’s going to be special for us, and hopefully for our fans as well.” We live all over the world: Ireland, San Diego, New York, Colorado, Michigan… We’re gonna do acoustic versions of our songs, we’re gonna do traditional songs, and we’re gonna do a full Flogging Molly set.
Patrick’s Day, so it could never really have been anywhere else. “Flogging Molly have never played a gig in Ireland on St. “Our first ever gig in Ireland was in Whelan’s,” Dave explains from his home in Wexford. With a return to full live shows still months away, a plan was hatched not to miss another shamrock celebration, and to broadcast this evening’s shindig live from from Whelan’s pub in Dublin. Thanks to COVID, last year’s big night out was cancelled, and he’s spent the subsequent 12 months (his first full year in an age) back in Ireland alongside bandmate and wife Bridget Regan. Having emigrated from Dublin to California in his 20s, frontman Dave King initially set up the seven-piece collective as a way of reconnecting with home from 5,000 miles away, and over the years he’s led many a drunken get-together. Patrick’s Day is always a special time of year for Los Angeles-based Celtic punks Flogging Molly.
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