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 The band Flogging Molly will be playing at the Compton Union Building at Washing State University on Sunday. Lindsay Hutchens/Courtesy Photo
Where can a person find a “Salty Dog,” “Seven Deadly Sins,” “Rebels of the Sacred Heart” and the “Queen Anne’s Revenge” all “Within A Mile of Home?”
Flogging Molly is playing a sold-out concert at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12 at Washington State University where all of these songs and many others from their seven albums, including the latest release “Float,” can be heard.
The seven-member Irish American Celtic punk-rock group is currently on the Northwestern leg of its North American tour, with stops in Boise and Portland before reaching the newly renovated Compton Union Building’s Senior Ballroom in Pullman.
“We have a brand new (Senior) Ballroom. This is the first big concert in the space. It’s going to be really cool. It looks really nice,” said Christian Kollgaard, WSU Student Entertainment Board’s concert programmer.
Kollgaard said the idea to book the band came up at the end of this summer and the Student Entertainment Board has been working on it since.
“We’re really excited about it. We’ve got a really positive response from our students and from the public,” Kollgaard said.
The concert has been one of the better-kept secrets on the Palouse. With a few posters on the WSU campus and word of mouth advertising, Kollgaard said that the concert sold out within two weeks. Tickets went on sale to WSU students on Sept. 10 and then to the general public a week later. 1,255 tickets were sold in that time frame.
Amanda Hopper, a University of Idaho student, got her tickets to the show
on Monday.
“I love Flogging Molly,” Hopper said.
Legions of fans like Hopper have made sure the show is a popular one.
“It’s the second show in the history of (WSU) student entertainment to sell out,” Kollgaard said. The other was a 2006 concert featuring OK Go, Motion City Soundtrack, Armor for Sleep, Boy’s Night Out, Spill Canvas and the Plain White T’s.
“I’m hoping that they have some new songs that I haven’t heard yet, but hopefully they have some classics that I love,” Hopper said.
The Pullman concert will be the only Washington stop on Flogging Molly’s tour. The group will also be playing with Beat Union, a pop-punk group from the U.K., and The Girls, a Seattle-based
punk group.
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