Flogging Molly’s Drunken English Influence
The Pogues were always very good at knocking their portrayal as a stereotypical drunken Irish band. Noting their national make-up they claimed it was much more accurate to describe them as a drunken English band.
As such I was surprised to read the seminal London-Irish outfit described as “Dublin Legends” in Matt Schild’s review in Aversion of Flogging Molly’s new CD/DVD Whiskey on a Sunday. Regardless, Matt’s main point is that any comprehensive discussion of Flogging Molly has to at least refer to The Pogues, and that Whiskey on a Sunday doesn’t.
Schild doesn’t get past this criticism of the film, and maybe for good reason, as he sums up the DVD as a commercial for the band rather than a compelling stand alone movie.
Once again I’m left puzzled by a reference King is quoted as making with regard to growing up in Ireland:
[It is] interesting to hear front man Dave King talk about growing up in poverty and under the shadow of the NRA in Ireland
The NRA is the National Roads Authority and while they’ve certainly had their issues with archaeology in Ireland, menacing shadows has never been their specialty.
Allowing for a typo, and changing the ‘N’ to an ‘I’, we have King growing up under the shadow of the IRA. When? King is from Dublin. Did all of us from Dublin grow up under that shadow? Was it a cloudy day with a shadow you wouldn’t notice?
An earlier review of Whiskey on a Sunday has King pouring his heart out about growing up in war-torn Dublin. During the War, i.e. World War Two, Dublin wasn’t even war-torn. You’ll have to watch The Wind That Shakes The Barley to see the last time Dublin was war-torn.
What is King up to?
See Also:
• ‘Whiskey on a Sunday’ by Flogging Molly
• Indulgers new CD ‘Out in the West’
• The Elders new CD: ‘Racing the Tide’
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