{"id":915846,"date":"2026-06-27T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/the-mary-wallopers-announce-new-album-paddywhackery\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:12:19","slug":"the-mary-wallopers-announce-new-album-paddywhackery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/the-mary-wallopers-announce-new-album-paddywhackery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mary Wallopers Announce New Album \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mary Wallopers<\/strong> will release new album \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019 on September 18th.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s breakout album \u2018Irish Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll\u2019 landed back in 2023, infusing the wellspring of Irish folk song with a defiant, very 21st century sense of energy. A terrific live group, The Mary Wallopers played a packed out Glastonbury in 2024 before completing an enormous world tour.<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re back. New album \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019 was constructed over a breakneck two week spell in Liverpool, with producer James Skelly<\/strong> and engineer Chris Taylor<\/strong> at the control.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Andrew and Charles Hendy<\/strong> from the Dundalk band on the new album\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s mainly about the fact that people would call us \u201cpaddywhackery\u201d because we are too Irish or whatever, but it\u2019s all very fucking hip to be Irish the last couple of years, and maybe that\u2019s performative too, it\u2019s very sincere. If all you do is serious songs, it sterilises everything. It becomes like there\u2019s only one human emotion and its seriousness. <\/em><\/p>\n

People are terrified of being laughed at. If people are going to call us paddywhackery anyway, we might as well just call the album\u00a0Paddywhackery<\/strong>. So its more of a \u201cfuck you\u201d than anything else. We want to spread like a virus and destroy anyone who thinks they are above The Mary Wallopers\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Out on September 18th<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, the album will be celebrated with an enormous tour. The dates open in Edinburgh on October 13th, and hit London\u2019s O2 Academy Brixton on October 30th.<\/p>\n

Closing in Glasgow\u2019s OVO Hydro on December 19th, tickets for all show go on sale on Friday, June 12th and will be available via\u00a0https:\/\/lnk.to\/TMW2026<\/a>\u00a0or from\u00a0marywallopers.com<\/a>,\u00a0ticketmaster.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0gigsandtours.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New single \u2018Crowns Of England\u2019 is out now \u2013 a rousing rallying cry, it also acts as an acute and perceptive look at their experiences, and the experiences of Irish people more generally, while travelling in the UK.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s Charles Hendy<\/strong> comments: <\/p>\n

The song is about being in England and feeling like an outsider in all that colonialism. And it\u2019s 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. <\/em><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0When we sing rebel songs in England, people don\u2019t know how to react, so you feel like such an alien because it\u2019s geographically so close but culturally there\u2019s a massive gap. I mean, I went to Wembley to see Oasis once and a woman asked me if we had televisions in\u00a0<\/em>Ireland\u2026<\/p>\n

Tune in below.<\/p>\n

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