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40-474: Flogging Molly is an Irish-American seven-piece Celtic punk band formed in Los Angeles in 1994, led by Irish vocalist Dave King , formerly of the hard rock band Fastway . They are signed to their own record label , Borstal Beat Records. Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dublin -born Dave King was the lead singer for the heavy metal band Fastway featuring guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke of Motörhead in

80-709: A Billboard journalist in November 1966, "is that this record is still alive in the catalogue (SC-501). As Seymour says, it was a good performance, not easy to top. Of the whole Vanguard/Bach Guild catalogue, numbering about 480 issues, 30 are Bach records..." The label also recorded other baroque and earlier works, pieces from the English Madrigal School performed by the Deller Consort , Italian and French madrigal masterpieces, Elizabethan and Jacobean music, and Henry Purcell . In 1953, under

120-501: A June 20, 2024, fire damaged Molly Malone's Irish Pub, where the band got their start, the band launched a merchandise line to raise money for the venue and staff. The band began a European tour on July 19, 2024, which ran through September, with stops at several major festivals, followed by a headlining tour of the United States from late September through mid-October 2024. From March 13 to 16, 2015, Flogging Molly began hosting

160-531: A Mile of Home (2004) is dedicated to the memories of Cash and The Clash frontman Joe Strummer . Their music ranges from boisterous Celtic punk, like the pirate-themed "Salty Dog", "Cruel Mistress", and "Seven Deadly Sins", or the defiant "What's Left of the Flag", "Drunken Lullabies", and "Rebels of the Sacred Heart", to more somber songs like "Far Away Boys", "The Son Never Shines (On Closed Doors)", "Life in

200-442: A Port of Miami kickoff show featuring The Interrupters . In late November 2023, the band announced the next Salty Dog Cruise, set for February 17–22, 2025, sailing from Miami to Grand Cayman , and Ochos Rios, Jamaica . As of December 15, 2023, the 2025 cruise was sold out. Flogging Molly's music is influenced by various artists, such as The Dubliners , The Pogues , Horslips , Johnny Cash , and The Clash . The album Within

240-480: A Tenement Square", and "Float". Lyrics typically touch on subjects such as Ireland and its history, drinking, poverty, politics, love, and death and include several references to the Catholic Church . "What's Left of the Flag" and "The Likes of You Again" were written as tributes to King's father, who died when King was a child. Current Former Celtic punk The genre was popularised in

280-496: A US tour with Social Distortion in 2019. The band live-streamed a St. Patrick's Day performance on March 17, 2021, from Whelan’s Irish Pub in Dublin , Ireland. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales went toward Sweet Relief’s COVID-19 Crew Fund. They co-headlined a tour with Violent Femmes the same year. Flogging Molly released their seventh studio album, Anthem , in 2022, their first with Rise Records . They co-headlined

320-514: A distribution deal with EMI to handle its labels, including Vanguard. After Seymour Solomon's death, Vanguard Classics was sold to Artemis Records , which reactivated the company with new releases by Leon Fleisher and Gil Shaham. When Artemis folded in 2004, the Vanguard Classics catalogue was sold to Sheridan Square Entertainment , which is licensing the Vanguard Classics material. Sheridan Square eventually became IndieBlu , which

360-949: A mixture of traditional folk songs and original songs written in a traditional style but performed in a punk style. Other early Celtic punk bands included Nyah Fearties , Australia 's Roaring Jack and Norway 's Greenland Whalefishers . The 1990s gave rise to a Celtic punk movement in North America, centered around the likes of the Dropkick Murphys of Quincy, Massachusetts , and Chicago's The Tossers - both from cities with particularly large population of Irish Americans - as well as LA's Flogging Molly (founded by Irish emigrant Dave King ). North American Celtic punk bands have been influenced by American forms of music, and commonly sing in English. Like other punk subcultures, Celtic punk has its own fashions as well. Similar to

400-425: A number of artist-run label imprints, to include Levon Helm ( Dirt Farmer Music ), Indigo Girls ( IG Recording ), and Chely Wright ( Painted Red Music ), among others. This era for Vanguard also garnered the label three consecutive Grammy Awards for Levon Helm, multiple Grammy Awards for Robert Cray, and an RIAA certified platinum single for Matt Nathanson's " Come on Get Higher ." In 2008, Welk Music Group began

440-512: A part of the larger Celtic punk subculture, as even though most bands from that scene did not incorporate traditional sounds into their music, they sang in Scottish Gaelic in support of their traditional language and in protest of linguistic homogenization (among many other issues). They taught each other the language in DIY classes called 'Gaelic for Punks', and the scene was centered around

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480-567: A record deal. King and Regan began to find new members and the current band was formed. They continued a routine of playing every Monday night at Molly Malone's. They put out a live album, Alive Behind the Green Door , in 1997. In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, King stated that the band's name comes from the bar (Molly Malone's) that faithfully supported the band from the very beginning, "We used to play there every Monday night and we felt like we were flogging it to death, so we called

520-477: A rock band with a Celtic music influence. They began to play a mix of Irish traditional and rock music. Putting King's poetic lyrics to rocking melodies, they played weekly at a Los Angeles pub called Molly Malone's, building a small but loyal following. Together, they wrote songs such as "Black Friday Rule" and "Selfish Man", which was the beginning of Flogging Molly's sound. Ted and Jeff then left Flogging Molly because an earlier band of theirs, Reacharound, received

560-829: A tour with The Interrupters the same year. In November 2023, the band announced the inaugural Shamrock Rebellion Fest, scheduled for March 16, 2024, in Silverado, California, and March 17, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Road To Rebellion Tour preceded the fest, with support coming from Amigo The Devil. Flogging Molly performed The Pogues ' "The Old Main Drag" at the Sinéad & Shane (billed as "a St. Paddy's Celebration of Sinéad O'Connor and Shane MacGowan ") at Carnegie Hall concert in New York City on March 20, 2024. After

600-472: A very small portion of their overall material (either due the common occurrence of non-Celtic folk songs being called 'Celtic,' or due to the misunderstanding that all traditional folk music mixed with punk rock is Celtic punk). Celtic punk's origins date back to 1960s and 1970s folk rock musicians who played Irish folk music and Celtic rock in the UK, as well as in more traditional Celtic folk bands such as

640-471: A yearly Caribbean cruise. The 2015 Salty Dog Cruise Cruise featured shows by the band and many others, over three days leaving from Miami to Nassau and Great Stirrup Cay on the Norwegian Sky . All bands performed two times on the stages throughout the ship or on the special stage set on Norwegian 's private island of Great Stirrup Cay. In 2016, from March 18 to 21, the second yearly cruise took

680-471: Is a form of Celtic fusion . While popular around the world, Celtic punk is often criticized for certain non-Irish bands appropriating and misrepresenting Irish culture (perpetuating ' Plastic Paddy ' stereotypes) with an excessive focus on drinking and fighting. Other folk-punk bands that incorporate traditional folk material, such as The Dreadnoughts and Cordelia's Dad , have expressed disdain at being called 'Celtic punk' despite Celtic material making up

720-602: The Sabhal Mòr Ostaig college on the Isle of Skye , Scotland . Vanguard Records Vanguard Recording Society is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City . It was a primarily classical label at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, but also has a catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal jazz , folk , and blues musicians. The Bach Guild

760-614: The Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel , including one of the first sets of the complete ten symphonies of Gustav Mahler , a complete performance of The Nutcracker , as well as the earlier P.D.Q. Bach recordings, from 1965 to 1983. Vanguard was the first American label to release the complete 1944 high fidelity recordings of composer Richard Strauss conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in most of his tone poems;

800-464: The Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel . After entering the rock and roll market by signing Country Joe and the Fish , Vanguard started a 6500 series for releases by rock acts but had little success. By the early 1970s, with acts such as Joan Baez and Ian & Sylvia leaving for other labels, and disappointing sales for the "Everyman" budget classical series, Vanguard's stature in

840-495: The 1980s by the Pogues . It is considered part of the broader folk punk genre, although that term is often used in North America for acoustic forms of punk rock rather than a mixture of traditional folk music and punk rock. The typical Celtic punk band includes rock instrumentation as well as traditional instruments such as bagpipes , fiddle , tin whistle , accordion , mandolin , and banjo . Like Celtic rock , Celtic punk

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880-706: The Auvergne, Viennese dances with Willi Boskovsky , traditional songs by Roland Hayes , Vivaldi's Four Seasons and other concertos from I Solisti di Zagreb , music by Ralph Vaughan Williams , numerous Haydn symphonies performed by the Esterhazy Orchestra, a double LP of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice sung in Italian with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra led by Charles Mackerras , and an influential Mahler cycle with

920-628: The Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers . The Scottish band the Skids were possibly the first UK punk band to add a strong folk music element, as they did on their 1981 album Joy . Around the same time in London , Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy began experimenting with a sound that became the Pogues , which most consider to be the prototypical Celtic punk band. Their early sets included

960-538: The Weavers . It continued to issue folk music with newly signed artists Joan Baez , Hedy West , the Rooftop Singers , Buffy Sainte-Marie , Ian and Sylvia , and Mimi and Richard Fariña . Around this time, Vanguard briefly ran a hi-fi record division titled Vanguard Stereolab; the English band Stereolab took their name from this. In the summer of 1965, Maynard Solomon hired Samuel Charters to edit

1000-515: The band Flogging Molly." They were signed onto SideOneDummy Records after a show when the record company's owners attended a concert and noted their intensity. The band’s debut studio album, Swagger , arrived on March 7, 2000, their first of many with SideOneDummy . They joined the Vans Warped Tour for the first time that summer alongside Green Day , Weezer , and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (whom they continued touring alongside in

1040-848: The band announced that the 2018 cruise would take place April 20–23, leaving from Miami , sailing to Key West and to Great Stirrup Cay . Originally, the cruise was supposed to take place on the Enchantment of the Seas in 2017; however, the ship was changed, and the Norwegian Sky has been announced. The line-up includes The Offspring , Buzzcocks , The Vandals , Lagwagon , and Mad Caddies , among others. The Salty Dog Cruise 2023 ran November 8–13, sailing from Miami to Harvest Caye , Belize , and Costa Maya , Mexico . The line-up included Flogging Molly, Pennywise , Stiff Little Fingers , The Vandals , and Gorilla Biscuits , among others, with

1080-552: The direction of John Hammond , the company began the Jazz Showcase series that concentrated on mainstream jazz, producing about two dozen recordings before it was closed in 1958. Recordings made at the Spirituals to Swing concerts in 1938 and 1939 were released by Vanguard in 1959. The company only intermittently pursued recording jazz after that. In the mid-1950s Vanguard signed blacklisted performers Paul Robeson and

1120-569: The early to mid- 1980s . He later fronted a hard rock band called Katmandu (1991), featuring Mandy Meyer of Krokus and Asia on guitars. Afterward, King retained a record deal with Epic Records and began to work on a solo album, but began to reconsider his record deal when the label opposed his idea of bringing in traditional Irish instruments. King negotiated out of his record deal to go his own way musically soon after. In 1993, King met violin player Bridget Regan, guitarist Ted Hutt , bassist Jeff Peters and drummer Paul Crowder, and put together

1160-619: The fall). Drunken Lullabies followed on March 19, 2002, and was certified gold by the RIAA in 2009. They returned to the Warped Tour in 2003 with a lineup that included The All-American Rejects and Dropkick Murphys . Within a Mile of Home , released on September 14, 2004, debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 . The acoustic/live CD/DVD combo, Whiskey on a Sunday , was released in 2006 and certified platinum two years later. It

1200-470: The label, reissuing much of its extensive folk and popular music back catalogue (a good deal of which had been out of print for several years) on CD, as well as signing a number of new artists (such as Matt Nathanson , Mindy Smith , Greg Laswell , and Trevor Hall ), in addition to established musicians such as Merle Haggard , John Fogerty , Chris Isaak , Robert Cray , Shawn Mullins , and Linda Ronstadt . The label also formed marketing partnerships with

1240-475: The label. A few disco albums by acts such as Players Association , Alphone Mouzon's "Poussez", and Marcus Barone's "The Ring/Savage Lover" were released on Vanguard with both domestic and worldwide chart impact. After this period of near-dormancy, Vanguard was sold to the Welk Music Group in 1985. The Welk Group sold the classical music catalog back to Seymour Solomon. Welk Music Group revitalized

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1280-704: The latter came from the United Kingdom's Pye Records label, featuring performances by the Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli . The recordings were so exceptional that many classical radio stations programmed them. Vanguard even released some quadraphonic classical recordings in the early 1970s, including a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Fourth Symphony with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski . The label also released many performances by

1320-483: The music industry was diminished. The label stayed minimally active with specialty releases such as those by Indian classical musician and sarod virtuoso Vasant Rai . An unexpected novelty hit on Vanguard, " Shaving Cream " by Benny Bell , led the company to release albums of humorous music inspired by Dr. Demento . In the late 1970s Tom Paxton issued two albums, New Songs from the Briar-patch and Heroes , on

1360-601: The music, Celtic punk fashion is a mixture of standard punk fashion and traditional Celtic clothing, most notably (and sometimes erronously) tartans . Standard items in Celtic punk fashion include leather jackets, tartans, chains, studs, kilts , and mohawks . The favored tartan among punks in 70s-80s Britain was the Royal Stewart tartan , due to both its widespread availability and perceived anti-establishment connotations. The Scottish Gaelic punk scene can be considered

1400-587: The recordings were made on the Magnetophon tape recording equipment in the Vienna Opera House. The multiplicity of popular in-house classical music series released by the Solomons on Vanguard and Bach Guild between 1950 and 1966 include, in addition to 22 Bach cantatas , the virtuoso trumpet, virtuoso flute and virtuoso oboe, along with German University Songs with Erich Kunz , songs of

1440-541: The same itinerary on the same ship and hosted, among others, Rancid , Fishbone , Frank Turner , Street Dogs and The Tossers . In 2017, the Enchantment of the Seas hosted the third annual cruise that left on March 10 to Coco Cay and Nassau, until coming back to Miami on March 13. The guests invited by the band were NOFX , DeVotchKa , Less Than Jake , The English Beat , The Skatalites , The Bouncing Souls , Dylan Walshe and many others. On August 21, 2017,

1480-561: The tapes of the 1964 Newport Folk Festival . Following that project, the company sent Charters to Chicago to capture the broad range of blues musicians there. Those sessions resulted in the 1966 three-album series titled Chicago/The Blues/Today! . The albums included Junior Wells with Buddy Guy , Muddy Waters 's bandmates Otis Spann and James Cotton , Otis Rush , Homesick James , Johnny Shines , Big Walter Horton , and Charlie Musselwhite . Vanguard released numerous classical recordings, both domestically produced and imported. Many of

1520-466: The year before as a CD/DVD set. In 2011, Flogging Molly appeared in the season premiere of Austin City Limits . 2011's Speed of Darkness was the band's first album issued through their own label, Borstal Beat Records. Life Is Good , the band's first new album in six years, arrived in 2017. It is the only Flogging Molly album released via Vanguard Records and Spinefarm . They co-headlined

1560-468: Was a subsidiary label. The label was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in April 2015. The newly founded venture's first record was of J.S. Bach's 21st cantata, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis , BWV 21 ("I had much grief"), with Jonathan Sternberg conducting the tenor Hugues Cuénod and other soloists, chorus and orchestra. "What speaks for the Solomons' steadfastness in their taste and their task", wrote

1600-623: Was followed by the 2007 online-only EP, Complete Control Sessions . The group’s fourth studio album, Float , debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 in 2008 and produced two well-received singles: "Requiem for a Dying Song" (No. 35 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts) and the title track (No. 40). March 2010's Live at the Greek Theatre captured a career-spanning Los Angeles, California performance from

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