Flogging Molly '08
Mar. 17th, 2008 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkerwithoutBack from the concert. So tired. So awesome. But first the negatives...
The concert had a change of venue from the Mesa Amphitheater (where they were last year) to the Tempe Beach Park. Which has shit parking. And the overflow was about half-a-mile away. So I ended up using one of the many pay garages in Tempe's Mill area. Happily, after losing my parking ticket at the concert, the guy in the box let me slide and didn't bother charging me. So that was cool of him. Also, the Mesa Amphitheater had a large flat area in front of their band area and then a tiered little hill spot. Meaning an easy seperation of the Mosh area from the non-Mosh area. Tempe Beach Park is one big flat park thingy. Meaning one big Mosh area sprung up and several smaller Mosh areas sprung up. Meaning people kept running into me. Next year I wear regular shoes...
Positives: Both opening bads KICKED ASS.
The first was the Cherry Cokes. An all-Japanese Celtic Folk Punk band. Truly the world is more awesome than any have given it credit. Irish Folk songs sung in Japanese. Wow. I mean how the hell did he manage to find SIX other people in Japan who wanted to specialize in Celtic Folk/Punk fusion?
Then it was the Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band. Another Folk/Punk fusion. This time Southern Folk. Again wow. Last year I was impressed how the trombone player for the Voodoo Glow Skulls could just own the stage. This year it was a woman playing a washboard...
But again once Flogging Molly hit the stage it blew everything else away. Yeah those moshing people were annoying. But FM just fires the crowd up. They played several songs off their new album Float. Including the title song and "Requiem for a Dying Song". Both great. And for the official finale everyone from both opening acts came out and started singing with them. Which was just bad ass. Of course King was convinced to come out for an encore after repeated chants of Ole and Flogging Molly. He started with a solo version of "Black Friday Rule", though the rest of the band came out to join in for the final chorus. And then they closed up with "Seven Deadly Sins"...
So. Fucking. Awesome.
The concert had a change of venue from the Mesa Amphitheater (where they were last year) to the Tempe Beach Park. Which has shit parking. And the overflow was about half-a-mile away. So I ended up using one of the many pay garages in Tempe's Mill area. Happily, after losing my parking ticket at the concert, the guy in the box let me slide and didn't bother charging me. So that was cool of him. Also, the Mesa Amphitheater had a large flat area in front of their band area and then a tiered little hill spot. Meaning an easy seperation of the Mosh area from the non-Mosh area. Tempe Beach Park is one big flat park thingy. Meaning one big Mosh area sprung up and several smaller Mosh areas sprung up. Meaning people kept running into me. Next year I wear regular shoes...
Positives: Both opening bads KICKED ASS.
The first was the Cherry Cokes. An all-Japanese Celtic Folk Punk band. Truly the world is more awesome than any have given it credit. Irish Folk songs sung in Japanese. Wow. I mean how the hell did he manage to find SIX other people in Japan who wanted to specialize in Celtic Folk/Punk fusion?
Then it was the Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band. Another Folk/Punk fusion. This time Southern Folk. Again wow. Last year I was impressed how the trombone player for the Voodoo Glow Skulls could just own the stage. This year it was a woman playing a washboard...
But again once Flogging Molly hit the stage it blew everything else away. Yeah those moshing people were annoying. But FM just fires the crowd up. They played several songs off their new album Float. Including the title song and "Requiem for a Dying Song". Both great. And for the official finale everyone from both opening acts came out and started singing with them. Which was just bad ass. Of course King was convinced to come out for an encore after repeated chants of Ole and Flogging Molly. He started with a solo version of "Black Friday Rule", though the rest of the band came out to join in for the final chorus. And then they closed up with "Seven Deadly Sins"...
So. Fucking. Awesome.
