Austin City Limits Music Festival: Day 2
Mother Nature struck back with a vengeance on day two of the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Twenty-four hours the best weather this festival has ever featured, rain plagued the entire day.
But that didn’t keep fans from showing up in droves or stop the bands from delivering more outstanding music.
Less than a day after Kings of Leon put on a show that not only lacked volume but showmanship, Flogging Molly put on a show that the young Folowills could learn from.
At a three-day festival, the crowd loses steam and Flogging Molly is the cure.
Sixty minutes of rude Irish folk had fans on their feet from front to back. People who wouldn’t know Ireland from Scotland danced figure-eights around each other. Near the stage the rain made a mosh pit unavoidable. But it was kindly, brotherly mosh pit. A few brave lads surfed the crowd. When moshing got to intense, the seemingly rude embraced arm-in-arm and danced a Celtic merry-go-round.
Lead singer Dave King played the crowd as expertly as he strummed his guitar and delivered his barroom-brawling vocals.
For an hour the rain was welcome. For an hour we were taken an enormous Irish Pub in Dublin.
I’ll never buy as many Flogging Molly CDs as I buy Kings of Leon CDs. But I’ve seen Kings of Leon three times now, and the only place they’ve never taken me was into their basement for a run-through of their catalog.
Neither are a bad place to escape a stressful life and maybe a rainy day.
Next time you get a chance to see Flogging Molly, and it’s they have been to Oklahoma a number of times, don’t miss it — rain or shine.
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