Flogging Molly

Dave King - singing, acoustic guitar Bridget Regan - Fiddle, Tin Whistle Dennis Casey - guitar Nathen Maxwell - bass Bob Schmidt - mandolin, banjo George Schwindt - drums
Founder of Flogging Molly, Dave King began his musical career with Fastway, a hard rock band from the 80s that also included Eddie Clarke, a former guitarist from Motörhead. In the late 1980s, he left Dublin for the states at the invitation of John D. Kalodner, Geffen's boss, to join the Katmandu group. King met Bridget Regan, George Schwindt, Dennis Casey, Matt Hensley (former skater), Robert Schmidt, and Nathan Maxwell in a Los Angeles bistro, the Molly's Malone, with whom he was to found Flogging Molly in 1997. The band signed the same year on Side One Dummy label at which released the first album Alive Behind The Green Door and all the band's productions until today.