The Mary Wallopers have announced a new album and a tour to support it.
'Paddywhackery', the follow-up to 2023's 'Irish Rock’n’Roll', will be released on September 18 via BC Records. The Irish band from Dundalk recorded it in just two weeks in Liverpool with The Coral's James Skelly producing and engineer Chris Taylor. The group's Andrew and Charles Hendy said:
“It’s mainly about the fact that people would call us “paddywhackery” because we are too Irish or whatever, but it’s all very fucking hip to be Irish the last couple of years, and maybe that’s performative too, it’s very sincere. If all you do is serious songs, it sterilises everything. It becomes like there’s only one human emotion and its seriousness. People are terrified of being laughed at. If people are going to call us paddywhackery anyway, we might as well just call the album Paddywhackery. So its more of a “fuck you” than anything else. We want to spread like a virus and destroy anyone who thinks they are above The Mary Wallopers.”
As a preview, they've shared the record's opening track Crowns of England, an Irish folk song with rousing musicality that bolsters its outspoken lyrics. Introducing it, Charles Hendy explained:
“The song is about being in England and feeling like an outsider in all that colonialism. And it’s about Irish people who move to London and then assimilate by trying to get away from being Irish. That outsider status could apply to immigrants generally, or even people from small towns moving into cities. England remains an archaic place in a lot of ways. There is still a monarchy. Every pub is called The Crown. There are flags everywhere.
"When we sing rebel songs in England, people don’t know how to react, so you feel like such an alien because it’s geographically so close but culturally there’s a massive gap. I mean, I went to Wembley to see Oasis once and a woman asked me if we had televisions in Ireland...”
The Mary Wallopers will support 'Paddywhackery' with their biggest headline UK and Ireland tour to date later this year, which will include gigs in England, Wales and Scotland in October, then huge shows at Dublin's 3Arena and Glasgow's OVO Hydro on December 10 and 19.
They'll be joined by special guests The Coral in Brighton, Dublin and Glasgow only. Tickets go on general sale at 9.30am on June 12.
Prior to their headline run, the band will appear at some festivals this summer, including All Together Now in Portlaw, Ireland in July and Beautiful Days in Devon in August.
'Paddywhackery' tracklist:
- Crowns of England
- The Juice
- Seán na Sagart
- Smuggling the Tin
- Castlecoe Hill
- The Big Mixer
- Worker’s Song
- Banks of the Roses
- Landlord’s Demise
- Kit Kat Club
- Micky Dam
The Mary Wallopers Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue October 13 2026 - EDINBURGH Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Wed October 14 2026 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE O2 City Hall
Fri October 16 2026 - CARDIFF Great Hall, Cardiff Students' Union
Sat October 17 2026 - BRIGHTON Centre
Mon October 19 2026 - SHEFFIELD Octagon
Tue October 20 2026 - CAMBRIDGE Corn exchange
Thu October 22 2026 - LIVERPOOL Liverpool Olympia
Fri October 23 2026 - MANCHESTER O2 Victoria Warehouse
Mon October 26 2026 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Tue October 27 2026 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Thu October 29 2026 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
Fri October 30 2026 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Thu December 10 2026 - DUBLIN 3Arena
Sat December 19 2026 - GLASGOW OVO Hydro
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