Within A Mile Of Home, the bands third album features LUCINDA WILLIAMS
on "Factory Girls", while second album Drunken Lullabies continues to
sell close to 3,000 copies a week - two and a half years after itsrelease date.

From Los Angeles, by way of Ireland, comes an experience like none other (though The Pogues and Dropkick Murphys are, admittedly, a good frame
of reference). Loud as a car bomb and stout as a Guinness, Flogging Molly take Irish pub music to it's frayed edges, the dark recesses at the heart of the music. As frontman Dave King puts it, "That's what we do to traditional music-we strangle it!"

A Flogging Molly show is like an Irish wake on speed. Dave King's confessional verse summons a riotous spectacle, a tribute to the tragedies and triumphs that have brought everyone in the room together for that moment. "I'm going out every night and singing about my dead father," admits Dave, "but the whole atmosphere turns it into a celebration."

The marriage of punk's rhythms to Ireland's instrumentation is as
volatile as the country itself. The accordion screams, the violin cries but the drums just won't stop beating. "We're basically a bar band," declares Dave. "Any band worth it's salt needs to be a bar band." But the bars may be a thing of the past, as Flogging Molly's audience grows stadium size. Within a Mile of Home is an invitation for the masses to grab a beer and join the party, one they are sure to accept!

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