aaamusic | On 18, Oct 2011

2011 is proving to be a monumental year for FLOGGING MOLLY.  After a summer of top-billing European and US festival appearances the band, currently in the midst of a major Canadian arena tour with Rise Against!, will return to Europe for a string of headline tour dates throughout November 2011. The band will also release new single and live favourite “Saints & Sinners” on November 14.  Recently performed in the US for Austin City Limits, where they appeared alongside Mumford and Sons, the single will be backed by a rare all-band acoustic version of the track recorded in the album sessions at Sonic Ranch studios in El Paso,Texas.

They arrive back in Europe for their first show since their incendiary set on the Lock Up stage at Reading and Leeds Festival.  On these European shows the band will be playing tracks from their recently released “Speed Of Darkness” album in amongst a host of Flogging Molly classics…

Recorded with producer Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Avett Brothers), “Speed Of Darkness” was released worldwide in May this year.  The album debuted at #9 in the US Billboard charts and has delivered a host of ‘best-yet’ chart positions around the world, including the UK and Germany.  “Speed of Darkness” follows up FLOGGING MOLLY’s acclaimed 2008 release “Float”, which has gone on to sell over 80,000 copies in the UK and Europe.

The bulk of the new album was written in the city of Detroit, original home to Flogging Molly fiddler (and front man Dave King’s wife) Bridget Regan, and the city where the couple have resided almost fulltime for the last three years. “Speed Of Darkness” takes a hard-nosed look at the economic collapse in the US and the direct effect it has had on everyday people. The Motor City serves as the album’s muse and a painful example of what has gone wrong in today’s world. “Speed of Darkness” is an album of rebellion and exile, and of struggle and history and the fight, and moves the hard talking, hard playing outfit into the territory of purveyors of the modern American protest song.

Confirmed tour dates are:

SHOW DATE	CITY	VENUE	TICKETS
03-Nov	Portsmouth	Pyramid centre	LINK HERE or HERE or HERE
04-Nov	London	Forum	LINK HERE
05-Nov	Manchester	Academy 2	LINK HERE
06-Nov	Norwich	UEA	LINK HERE
08-Nov	Copenhagen	Vega	LINK HERE
09-Nov	Stockholm	Arena	LINK HERE
SHOW DATE	CITY	VENUE	TICKETS
10-Nov	Oslo	Sentrum scene	LINK HERE
11-Nov	Malmö	KB	LINK HERE
12-Nov	Eindhoven	Klokgebouw	LINK HERE
15-Nov	Wien	Gasometer	LINK HERE
16-Nov	Munich	Tonhalle	LINK HERE
17-Nov	Zurich	Komplex	LINK HERE
18-Nov	Saarbrucken	Garage	LINK HERE
22-Nov	Berlin	Astra	LINK HERE
23-Nov	Hamburg	Docks	LINK HERE
24-Nov	Cologne	E Werk	LINK HERE
25-Nov	Stuttgart	LKA Longhorn	LINK HERE
26-Nov	Paris	Le Bataclan	LINK HERE
28-Nov	Nottingham	Rockcity	LINK HERE
29-Nov	Wolverhampton	Wulfrun Hall	LINK HERE
30-Nov	Cardiff	Coal Exchange	LINK HERE