Los Angeles-based Irish punk/folk rock band Flogging Molly knows how to properly celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Southern California.
Minus a few years playing outdoor events in Arizona on the holiday, the fiery band — which was born out of Molly Malone’s Irish Pub on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles in the mid-’90s — have thrown tremendously fun parties on March 17 through the years. At first, they were held in various bars, clubs and theaters and as the crowds grew, they moved into places like Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Kia Forum in Inglewood and the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
This year, the band teamed up with Orange County-based Brew Ha Ha Productions for the Shamrock Rebellion, an all-day, all-ages festival that will include sets by Flogging Molly alongside Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Buzzcocks, Face to Face, Amigo The Devil, Skinny Lister, NOBRO and Gen & The Degenerates on Saturday, March 16 at Oak Canyon Park in Silverado and on Sunday, March 17 at the Downtown Las Vegas Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ahead of the shows, we caught up with Flogging Molly vocalist-guitarist Dave King, solo singer-songwriter Frank Turner and Face to Face frontman Trever Keith to talk about spearheading Shamrock Rebellion.
“I mean, St. Patrick’s Day or not, we’ve always been about music and celebrating music,” King said during a recent phone interview. Growing up in Ireland, King recalls his parents going out and bringing back the pub crowd every Saturday night to his home where they’d keep the party going, playing music all night long.
“The place would go mental,” he continued. “These shows are kind of like going back to that. Sometimes you just have to go out and enjoy yourself and I think St. Patrick’s Day does that. It’s your little pass to go have a bit of a fun time and I think that’s important in life.”
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