We arrived at the venue around 4;30 , and yikes, what a freak show! I am amazed at the diverse crowd that FM attracts. There were people ranging in age from 6mos. to 70+, and from every walk of life. Another thing I could not ignore was the size of the crowd, the first time I saw FM it was at a small bar with a couple hundred people and it cost me $7 a ticket, this time it was $35+ per ticket and there were probably 10-15 thousand. Needless to say it was quite a different experience this time around.
The first band was pretty lame, the second was only a little bit better. The next two bands TwoPointEight, a punk band from Sweden, and Street Dogs, the singer was formerly the singer of the Dropkick Murphy's, played and were pretty good, but I wasn't really there to see them, so on with the story.
At about 8:00 FM took the stage and proceeded to put on quite a show. One thing I noticed was that they had a replacement accordion player, I wonder what happened to Matt Hensley. I'll have to look in to that. Anyway it was a great show, unfortunately due to the size of the crowd we were unable to do the regular post-show chat with the boys from FM. All in all it was a good time although it was not as much fun as the good ol' days when I was young and stupid and there were only a couple hundred idiots in the crowd with me. Maybe I'm just getting too old for this kind of silliness.
I tried to get some live action for y'all, but it was so distorted it hurts to listen to. This photo was the best I could do for you. One last thing, THANK YOU RICH & JAMIE for those copies of Swagger and The Green Door you gave me nearly 7 years ago that got me hooked from the instant I first put it into the CD player.
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Hi Aunt Kristen and Uncle Sam. Nice pictures on your blog. I think your birthday presents were cool. We listened to Flogging Molly yesterday too, but it was just a CD. Good Luck. That's it. Love Addie
Yeah Sammy I remember the good old days. The first time I saw them was back in like 99 and there was like 20-30 people there and ofcourse hung out with them after the show and got them all to sign my first Flogging Molly Album,the only one at the time, Alive behind the green door. Anyway lucky us got to know them early before it was cool.
That was Rich, by the way. And I knew the first time he played it for me that Flogging Molly was the band for you. Yay that.
Sam!
i don't know how to say this without is sounding mean... i hate you. why are you so lucky that you have been to like a gazillion FM shows! save some for the rest of us. maybe they will come to Iraq... hmmmm. anyway, good to see you got into the blogging world. you guys are a cute couple and i wish you lived closer. just move to montana. that is the place to be these days. maybe Amie and i will move to Arizona.... who knows. you guys take care and i'll talk to you later.
Matt
Okay, Sambo & Special-K...time to update. And also, time to come to Montana.
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