Dave King (born 11 December 1961) is an Irish vocalist, primary writer and lyricist for the band Flogging Molly. He was previously well known as the lead singer for the 1980s hard rock band Fastway. 　　Dave King started out as the vocalist for Fastway, a 1980s hard rock band, featuring guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke of the metal band Motorhead, Pete Way (bassist of UFO), and Jerry Shirley (drummer of Humble Pie),although Way left before the release of the first album, and he did not appear on the album cover. They recorded their first four records with King on vocals, as well as a live record. 　　When Fastway was ostensibly disbanded (Eddie carried on the name with all new members), King formed Katmandu with Mandy Meyer (former member of the band Krokus), who released one self-titled album. The band had a couple of minor hits but later disbanded. 　　King retained a record deal with Epic records, who wanted him to sing for Jeff Beck, but he declined. He started working with forming the band Flogging Molly, with new material that had a distinct Irish sound, but still retaining the hard driving, loud and fast musical style. He asked to be let out of his Epic contract because "they wouldn't know what to do with the new music anyways..." Since then, Flogging Molly has reached position No. 4 on the Billboard charts top 200 and a No. 1 on the Billboard Indie Chart.