The Mary Wallopers’ third album Paddywhackery follows up 2023’s hugely acclaimed Irish Rock’n’Roll. That album saw the band grow in confidence, and 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.”
After a series of guerilla gigs all over Ireland in the run up to Paddywhackery, The Mary Wallopers play a huge series of dates in the autumn. These gigs take in dates in Scotland, England and Wales before ending up with two huge arena gigs in Dublin and Glasgow. The band will play:
Tue 13th Oct: Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Wed 14th Oct: Newcastle O2 City Hall
Fri 16th Oct: Cardiff University
Sat 17th Oct: Brighton Centre
Mon 19th Oct: Sheffield Octagon Centre
Tue 20th Oct: Cambridge Corn Exchange
Thu 22nd Oct: Liverpool Olympia
Fri 23rd Oct: Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse
Mon 26th Oct: Nottingham Rock City
Tue 27th Oct: Leeds O2 Academy
Thu 29th Oct: Birmingham O2 Academy
Fri 30th Oct: London O2 Academy Brixton
Thu 10th Dec: Dublin 3Arena
Sat 19th Dec: Glasgow OVO Hydro
The Coral support in Brighton (17th Oct), Dublin (10th Dec) and Glasgow (19th Dec). Tickets are available via https://lnk.to/TMW2026 or from marywallopers.com, ticketmaster.co.uk or gigsandtours.com.
