Mary Wallopers, The - Paddywhackery

Back for their second Dinked Edition, The Mary Wallopers are blazing out of the gates with this raucous first collection of all-original tracks.

Paddywhackery is a rabble-rousing rip through folk-infused rock ‘n’ roll. If this wild ride doesn’t get you up on your feet and quickstepping, it’ll have you waving your fists in fury. Either way, these Irish punks will move you in more ways than one!

For Fans Of: Madra Salach / The Pogues / The Dubliners / Brògeal / Kneecap / Stick In The Wheel / Jinx Lennon

The third album from Dundalk’s finest – produced by The Coral’s James Skelly and packed with their own songs - follows up 2023’s hugely acclaimed Irish Rock’n’Roll. That album saw the band grow in confidence, writing their own songs for the first time. Paddywhackery finds them leaping forwards to create an album that sounds like it’s been made by a band with a tightness and a power that’s unparalleled in music right now.

Recorded in an intense two-week period in Liverpool with producer, James Skelly, and engineer, Chris Taylor, Paddywhackery lets the band’s grand wildness shine through and allows their songs to flow out of the speakers with the kind of verve and potency that will make you - the listener - press play again, and again, and again. 

Andrew and Charles Hendy on the album: “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”