{"id":2034913,"date":"2026-07-09T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2034913"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:27:55","slug":"the-mary-wallopers-on-irish-expression-and-heavier-new-album-paddywhackery-if-the-english-knew-what-happened-they-wouldnt-be-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2034913","title":{"rendered":"The Mary Wallopers on \u201cIrish expression\u201d and \u201cheavier\u201d new album \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019: \u201cIf the English knew what happened, they wouldn\u2019t be so quick to be marching with St George\u2019s crosses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the_mary_wallopers.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><i class=\"tdb-bread-sep td-icon-right\"><\/i><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">The Mary Wallopers on \u201cIrish expression\u201d and \u201cheavier\u201d new album \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019: \u201cIf the English knew what happened, they wouldn\u2019t be so quick to be marching with St George\u2019s crosses\u201d<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The rebel folk band spoke to NME about the isolation of being Irish in England, the fallout of having their Victorious 2025 set cut off, not shying away from &#8220;saying something that\u2019s right&#8221;, and more, as they share new single \u2018Landlord&#8217;s Demise\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Max Pilley<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-07-09T12:27:55+01:00\">9th July 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .\/block --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the_mary_wallopers-696x442.jpg\" alt title=\"the_mary_wallopers\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">The Mary Wallopers. CREDIT: Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Mary Wallopers have spoken to <i>NME <\/i>about using their \u201cheavier\u201d and most original album yet, \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019, to chronicle the isolation of living as an outsider in England. Check out new single \u2018Landlord\u2019s Demise\u2019 below, exclusively on <em>NME<\/em>, along with the full interview.<\/p>\n<p>The raucous Irish rebel folk band will release their third studio record on September 18 (pre-order here). Recorded with The Coral\u2019s James Skelly in two weeks, the project marks a step up from their 2022 self-titled debut and the following year\u2019s \u2018Irish Rock N Roll\u2019, both of which leaned on traditional Irish songs and ballads.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0The Mary Wallopers: \u201cThere needs to be a voice that\u2019s giving the rowdy side of folk back to people\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hailing from Dundalk, County Louth, the band are led by brothers and co-frontmen Charles and Andrew Hendy. Thanks to the rowdy energy of their live shows, and a number of eye-catching TV and online performances, their profile has risen to the point that the tour in support of \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019 will see them headline venues from London\u2019s Brixton Academy to Dublin\u2019s 3Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Although the group are still primarily based in Dundalk, lead single \u2018Crowns Of England\u2019 details the strange displacement and detachment they have experienced in England, depicting a country mired in misty-eyed nostalgia for a half-understood history. Its video stars Danielle Galligan (<i>House Of Guinness<\/i>) as an Irish woman wandering from one pub named The Crown to another, each one adorned with Winston Churchill imagery.<\/p>\n<p>The Mary Wallopers are no strangers to\u00a0speaking\u00a0their minds politically. Last year,\u00a0their set at Victorious Festival was cut off almost before it began, with event organisers removing a Palestinian flag from their stage setup and cutting off their sound. The band were later accused of leading a \u201cdiscriminatory chant\u201d, although they countered this with their own video footage, which\u00a0appeared to contradict the\u00a0claim. The festival later issued an apology.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>NME\u00a0<\/i>spoke to Andrew Hendy about the band\u2019s reflection on that controversy, how it made the festival \u201clook very bad\u201d, and why he\u2019s not shying away from \u201csaying something that\u2019s right\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It comes as Hendy and co. share their latest track, \u2018Landlord\u2019s Demise\u2019 \u2013 \u201ca song about the fall of empire in Ireland, and an expression of our disdain for the Landlord Class\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s based on a true story about a Manor House falling down around its aristocratic owner, and is also inspired by Tom Barry\u2019s book <em>Guerilla Days In Ireland<\/em>,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a song for all the struggling renters, in dingy flats and mould-infested bathrooms, living in fear of another rent hike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read on for the rest of the interview, where Hendy also discussed The Mary Wallopers\u2019 \u201cheavier and more uptempo\u201d new songs, \u201ccapturing that raw energy\u201d of their live shows, \u201cgoing to the country that did the colonising\u201d, and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZK33qHiOiE\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>NME: Hi, Andrew. The new album is called \u2018<\/b><b>Paddywhackery\u2019<\/b><b>,\u00a0a word that has been used as a stick to beat Irish people with over the years. To co-opt a beloved phrase of the British government, are you taking back control of that term?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Hendy:<\/strong> \u201cYeah, definitely. Sometimes Irish people use it to beat themselves up, too. Around the turn of the 19th century, a lot of performers from Ireland who were really talented and creative would have sung, especially in New York, songs that were funny and played with the idea of Irishness. After a while, people decided it was a bit naff or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I think Irish folk musicians, and even people within Irish culture, are afraid to do the humour element of Irish music. We\u2019ve always been doing some of those songs, like \u2018The Blarney Stone\u2019 and \u2018Eileen \u00d3g\u2019 \u2013 songs that are incredibly well-written and funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re playing with the idea that Irishness and Irish expression can be both things. It can be serious, poignant, sad and rebellious, but it can also be good craic. We\u2019re trying to take \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019\u00a0back as our own militant thing and diminish its insulting power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The single\u00a0\u2018Crowns\u00a0Of\u00a0England\u2019\u00a0and its video depict an Irish person in London drifting from one pub called The Crown to the next, lost in the history and iconography of the UK.\u00a0Is it meant as a reflection of being an outsider in England?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a way, the song is addressing the feelings of isolation when you\u2019re living away from home. Especially being from a country that was colonised, then going to the country that did the colonising \u2013 even though the relationship between Ireland and England is very good now, there are still feelings there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something a lot of immigrants can relate to: missing home. In the \u201960s, Irish navvies would have always drunk in The Crown. There\u2019s something about all these pubs in England not being able to quench the thirst for the community back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>There\u2019s\u00a0a line in the song\u00a0about you performing in one of those pubs:\u00a0<\/b><strong>\u201c<em>They don\u2019t know if they should clap or throw me out again<\/em>\u201d.<\/strong><b> That seems to get to the heart of the issue\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of ordinary people, through no fault of their own, don\u2019t know the history of what happened with Britain and Ireland. When you\u2019re singing rebel songs in a pub, sometimes people will be loving it and think it\u2019s great. But then if we end up singing an IRA song, some people in the pub might get their backs up. Obviously, our relationship with the IRA was: ordinary people who were being oppressed, fighting back in their own country to get equal rights. But in the newspapers, what people in England heard of the IRA was this big terrorist threat from monsters from a foreign nation coming to cause damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when we\u2019re singing rebel songs, sometimes people can be a bit taken aback by it. But when you talk to people and start the conversation, and people learn a bit more about the history, they always come round to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary people everywhere are decent and great. But if the ordinary English person knew what happened \u2013 what crimes the British Army did, what crimes Churchill did in India, all around the world, in African countries as well \u2013 they wouldn\u2019t be so quick to be marching with St George\u2019s crosses and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>There are more of your own\u00a0original\u00a0songs\u00a0on this album than before.\u00a0How did that come to be?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we got to a point where we\u2019d learned a few hundred songs, and we could have kept releasing traditional songs but through touring and playing loads of gigs, I definitely figured out more what I wanted the band to sound like. A lot of these songs are heavier and more uptempo, and I was definitely thinking about the crowd having a better time when they\u2019re listening to them. It was exciting to finally figure out how we want to write songs and make them work with the band.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DNsUSU_UFVr\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>You recorded the whole thing in a fortnight with James Skelly\u00a0\u2013 did that help to capture that raw energy?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur best thing has always been the energy of our live gigs, and capturing that raw energy was very important. There\u2019s a law of diminishing returns where every time you do a take, it gets a bit worse. Having that pressure to get songs recorded in two or three takes was class. James was good at encouraging us to lean one way or the other with a take. He was very good at getting good energy out of us. Energy is more important than having everything polished. All my favourite recordings are raw recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>At Victorious Festival in Portsmouth last year, your set was cut off before you even started, and a Palestinian flag was taken from the stage. You were then accused of a discriminatory chant, but you put out a video that contradicted the festival\u2019s official statement. They later issued an apology. How do you reflect on that now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you believe in saying something that\u2019s right, you should just do it regardless. Especially as an artist, and even more so if you\u2019re an artist that considers yourself politically engaged. You can\u2019t shy away from doing something for fear of not being able to get a gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the genocide is still happening in Palestine, so I don\u2019t want to be talking about us taking a stage with a flag too much, because it\u2019s a minor gesture really to have it on stage. We just want to show our support to people in Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Were you shocked by what happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a way, yes, in another way, no. There has been so much whitewashing of the genocide that\u2019s happening in Palestine that, in that sense, it\u2019s not really a surprise that a festival that has the British Navy handing out hats and flags in the middle of the festival is going to have a problem with a Palestinian flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in another way, I didn\u2019t think they\u2019d actually do it, because obviously it made them look very bad. That\u2019s why we didn\u2019t have to do anything; we just shared the footage of what happened. If somebody is trying to cover up the truth, and if they\u2019re on the wrong side of morality all the time, they will show themselves up for being that. They actually brought more attention to it by trying to push us into changing what we do every gig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A number of\u00a0other artists pulled out of the festival in solidarity \u2014\u00a0<\/b><b>The Last Dinner Party,\u00a0The Architect, Cliffords<\/b><b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b><b>Vampire Weekend made a statement from the stage as well<\/b><b>. What was your reaction to that?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t ask anyone to pull out, they did that of their own accord, and I\u2019ll always have respect for the bands that did that, because it shows they care more about what\u2019s right than just getting their slot at the gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of stress after we went off stage that evening, but seeing that other bands had pulled their sets in support of the message we were trying to put out was a very nice feeling. It was very supportive, and fair play to them. I know they weren\u2019t doing it for us; they were doing it for the point of Palestine. That was class. It was the right thing to do, and they did it because they\u2019re good people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Paddywhackery\u2019\u00a0is\u00a0released on September 18 via BC Records \u2013 pre-order it\u00a0<\/i><i>here<\/i><i>. The Mary Wallopers\u2019 UK and Ireland tour kicks off this autumn \u2013 find any remaining tickets here, and see the full schedule below.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>OCTOBER<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>13 \u2013 Corn Exchange, Edinburgh <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>14 \u2013 O2 City Hall, Newcastle <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>16 \u2013 Cardiff University, Cardiff<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>17 \u2013 Brighton Centre, Brighton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>19 \u2013 Octagon Centre, Sheffield <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>20 \u2013 Corn Exchange, Cambridge <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>22 \u2013 Olympia, Liverpool <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>23 \u2013 O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>26 \u2013 Rock City, Nottingham <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>27 \u2013 O2 Academy, Leeds <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>29 \u2013 O2 Academy, Birmingham <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>30 \u2013 O2 Academy Brixton, London <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DECEMBER<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10 \u2013 3Arena, Dublin <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>19 \u2013 OVO Hydro, Glasgow <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_87 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Folk<\/li>\n<li>Punk<\/li>\n<li>The Coral<\/li>\n<li>The Mary Wallopers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_wrap vc_raw_html tdi_89 \">\n<div class=\"td-fix-index\">\n<h3>You May Also Like<\/h3>\n<div id=\"taboola-below-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_91  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span4 td-is-sticky\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-sidebar  tdi_92 td_block_template_2\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-sidebar-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap td_flex_block_1 tdi_93 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdc-no-posts td_flex_block\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_93\">\n<div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\">\n<h4 class=\"td-block-title\"><span class=\"td-pulldown-size\">TRENDING<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_93\" class=\"td_block_inner td-mc1-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-image-container\">\n<div class=\"td-module-thumb\"><span class=\"entry-thumb td-thumb-css\" data-type=\"css_image\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/little-grandad-credit-xander-lewis-400x254.jpg\" data-img-retina-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/little-grandad-credit-xander-lewis-800x508.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Little Grandad: the alt-country band speeding towards stardom<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-image-container\">\n<div class=\"td-module-thumb\"><span class=\"entry-thumb td-thumb-css\" data-type=\"css_image\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TRUENO-1-Photo-Credit_-Agustin-Gomez-400x254.jpeg\" data-img-retina-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TRUENO-1-Photo-Credit_-Agustin-Gomez-800x508.jpeg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Trueno\u2019s politically charged rap is putting him on the path to global success<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-image-container\">\n<div class=\"td-module-thumb\"><span class=\"entry-thumb td-thumb-css\" data-type=\"css_image\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NME-HERO-HAUTE-AND-FREDDY-CREDIT-KRISTEN-JAN-WONG@2560x1707-400x267.jpg\" data-img-retina-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NME-HERO-HAUTE-AND-FREDDY-CREDIT-KRISTEN-JAN-WONG@2560x1707-800x533.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Step right up! 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<span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span>                <\/article>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Mary Wallopers have spoken to <i>NME <\/i>about using their \u201cheavier\u201d and most original album yet, \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019, to chronicle the isolation of living as an outsider in England. Check out new single \u2018Landlord\u2019s Demise\u2019 below, exclusively on <em>NME<\/em>, along with the full interview.<\/p>\n<p>The raucous Irish rebel folk band will release their third studio record on September 18 (pre-order here). Recorded with The Coral\u2019s James Skelly in two weeks, the project marks a step up from their 2022 self-titled debut and the following year\u2019s \u2018Irish Rock N Roll\u2019, both of which leaned on traditional Irish songs and ballads.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0The Mary Wallopers: \u201cThere needs to be a voice that\u2019s giving the rowdy side of folk back to people\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hailing from Dundalk, County Louth, the band are led by brothers and co-frontmen Charles and Andrew Hendy. Thanks to the rowdy energy of their live shows, and a number of eye-catching TV and online performances, their profile has risen to the point that the tour in support of \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019 will see them headline venues from London\u2019s Brixton Academy to Dublin\u2019s 3Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Although the group are still primarily based in Dundalk, lead single \u2018Crowns Of England\u2019 details the strange displacement and detachment they have experienced in England, depicting a country mired in misty-eyed nostalgia for a half-understood history. Its video stars Danielle Galligan (<i>House Of Guinness<\/i>) as an Irish woman wandering from one pub named The Crown to another, each one adorned with Winston Churchill imagery.<\/p>\n<p>The Mary Wallopers are no strangers to\u00a0speaking\u00a0their minds politically. Last year,\u00a0their set at Victorious Festival was cut off almost before it began, with event organisers removing a Palestinian flag from their stage setup and cutting off their sound. The band were later accused of leading a \u201cdiscriminatory chant\u201d, although they countered this with their own video footage, which\u00a0appeared to contradict the\u00a0claim. The festival later issued an apology.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>NME\u00a0<\/i>spoke to Andrew Hendy about the band\u2019s reflection on that controversy, how it made the festival \u201clook very bad\u201d, and why he\u2019s not shying away from \u201csaying something that\u2019s right\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It comes as Hendy and co. share their latest track, \u2018Landlord\u2019s Demise\u2019 \u2013 \u201ca song about the fall of empire in Ireland, and an expression of our disdain for the Landlord Class\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s based on a true story about a Manor House falling down around its aristocratic owner, and is also inspired by Tom Barry\u2019s book <em>Guerilla Days In Ireland<\/em>,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a song for all the struggling renters, in dingy flats and mould-infested bathrooms, living in fear of another rent hike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read on for the rest of the interview, where Hendy also discussed The Mary Wallopers\u2019 \u201cheavier and more uptempo\u201d new songs, \u201ccapturing that raw energy\u201d of their live shows, \u201cgoing to the country that did the colonising\u201d, and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZK33qHiOiE\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>NME: Hi, Andrew. The new album is called \u2018<\/b><b>Paddywhackery\u2019<\/b><b>,\u00a0a word that has been used as a stick to beat Irish people with over the years. To co-opt a beloved phrase of the British government, are you taking back control of that term?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Hendy:<\/strong> \u201cYeah, definitely. Sometimes Irish people use it to beat themselves up, too. Around the turn of the 19th century, a lot of performers from Ireland who were really talented and creative would have sung, especially in New York, songs that were funny and played with the idea of Irishness. After a while, people decided it was a bit naff or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I think Irish folk musicians, and even people within Irish culture, are afraid to do the humour element of Irish music. We\u2019ve always been doing some of those songs, like \u2018The Blarney Stone\u2019 and \u2018Eileen \u00d3g\u2019 \u2013 songs that are incredibly well-written and funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re playing with the idea that Irishness and Irish expression can be both things. It can be serious, poignant, sad and rebellious, but it can also be good craic. We\u2019re trying to take \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019\u00a0back as our own militant thing and diminish its insulting power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The single\u00a0\u2018Crowns\u00a0Of\u00a0England\u2019\u00a0and its video depict an Irish person in London drifting from one pub called The Crown to the next, lost in the history and iconography of the UK.\u00a0Is it meant as a reflection of being an outsider in England?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a way, the song is addressing the feelings of isolation when you\u2019re living away from home. Especially being from a country that was colonised, then going to the country that did the colonising \u2013 even though the relationship between Ireland and England is very good now, there are still feelings there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something a lot of immigrants can relate to: missing home. In the \u201960s, Irish navvies would have always drunk in The Crown. There\u2019s something about all these pubs in England not being able to quench the thirst for the community back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>There\u2019s\u00a0a line in the song\u00a0about you performing in one of those pubs:\u00a0<\/b><strong>\u201c<em>They don\u2019t know if they should clap or throw me out again<\/em>\u201d.<\/strong><b> That seems to get to the heart of the issue\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of ordinary people, through no fault of their own, don\u2019t know the history of what happened with Britain and Ireland. When you\u2019re singing rebel songs in a pub, sometimes people will be loving it and think it\u2019s great. But then if we end up singing an IRA song, some people in the pub might get their backs up. Obviously, our relationship with the IRA was: ordinary people who were being oppressed, fighting back in their own country to get equal rights. But in the newspapers, what people in England heard of the IRA was this big terrorist threat from monsters from a foreign nation coming to cause damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when we\u2019re singing rebel songs, sometimes people can be a bit taken aback by it. But when you talk to people and start the conversation, and people learn a bit more about the history, they always come round to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary people everywhere are decent and great. But if the ordinary English person knew what happened \u2013 what crimes the British Army did, what crimes Churchill did in India, all around the world, in African countries as well \u2013 they wouldn\u2019t be so quick to be marching with St George\u2019s crosses and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>There are more of your own\u00a0original\u00a0songs\u00a0on this album than before.\u00a0How did that come to be?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we got to a point where we\u2019d learned a few hundred songs, and we could have kept releasing traditional songs but through touring and playing loads of gigs, I definitely figured out more what I wanted the band to sound like. A lot of these songs are heavier and more uptempo, and I was definitely thinking about the crowd having a better time when they\u2019re listening to them. It was exciting to finally figure out how we want to write songs and make them work with the band.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DNsUSU_UFVr\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>You recorded the whole thing in a fortnight with James Skelly\u00a0\u2013 did that help to capture that raw energy?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur best thing has always been the energy of our live gigs, and capturing that raw energy was very important. There\u2019s a law of diminishing returns where every time you do a take, it gets a bit worse. Having that pressure to get songs recorded in two or three takes was class. James was good at encouraging us to lean one way or the other with a take. He was very good at getting good energy out of us. Energy is more important than having everything polished. All my favourite recordings are raw recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>At Victorious Festival in Portsmouth last year, your set was cut off before you even started, and a Palestinian flag was taken from the stage. You were then accused of a discriminatory chant, but you put out a video that contradicted the festival\u2019s official statement. They later issued an apology. How do you reflect on that now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you believe in saying something that\u2019s right, you should just do it regardless. Especially as an artist, and even more so if you\u2019re an artist that considers yourself politically engaged. You can\u2019t shy away from doing something for fear of not being able to get a gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the genocide is still happening in Palestine, so I don\u2019t want to be talking about us taking a stage with a flag too much, because it\u2019s a minor gesture really to have it on stage. We just want to show our support to people in Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Were you shocked by what happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a way, yes, in another way, no. There has been so much whitewashing of the genocide that\u2019s happening in Palestine that, in that sense, it\u2019s not really a surprise that a festival that has the British Navy handing out hats and flags in the middle of the festival is going to have a problem with a Palestinian flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in another way, I didn\u2019t think they\u2019d actually do it, because obviously it made them look very bad. That\u2019s why we didn\u2019t have to do anything; we just shared the footage of what happened. If somebody is trying to cover up the truth, and if they\u2019re on the wrong side of morality all the time, they will show themselves up for being that. They actually brought more attention to it by trying to push us into changing what we do every gig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A number of\u00a0other artists pulled out of the festival in solidarity \u2014\u00a0<\/b><b>The Last Dinner Party,\u00a0The Architect, Cliffords<\/b><b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b><b>Vampire Weekend made a statement from the stage as well<\/b><b>. What was your reaction to that?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t ask anyone to pull out, they did that of their own accord, and I\u2019ll always have respect for the bands that did that, because it shows they care more about what\u2019s right than just getting their slot at the gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of stress after we went off stage that evening, but seeing that other bands had pulled their sets in support of the message we were trying to put out was a very nice feeling. It was very supportive, and fair play to them. I know they weren\u2019t doing it for us; they were doing it for the point of Palestine. That was class. It was the right thing to do, and they did it because they\u2019re good people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Paddywhackery\u2019\u00a0is\u00a0released on September 18 via BC Records \u2013 pre-order it\u00a0<\/i><i>here<\/i><i>. The Mary Wallopers\u2019 UK and Ireland tour kicks off this autumn \u2013 find any remaining tickets here, and see the full schedule below.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>OCTOBER<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>13 \u2013 Corn Exchange, Edinburgh <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>14 \u2013 O2 City Hall, Newcastle <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>16 \u2013 Cardiff University, Cardiff<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>17 \u2013 Brighton Centre, Brighton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>19 \u2013 Octagon Centre, Sheffield <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>20 \u2013 Corn Exchange, Cambridge <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>22 \u2013 Olympia, Liverpool <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>23 \u2013 O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>26 \u2013 Rock City, Nottingham <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>27 \u2013 O2 Academy, Leeds <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>29 \u2013 O2 Academy, Birmingham <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>30 \u2013 O2 Academy Brixton, London <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DECEMBER<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10 \u2013 3Arena, Dublin <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>19 \u2013 OVO Hydro, Glasgow <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-mary-wallopers-on-irish-expression-and-heavier-new-album-paddywhackery-if-the-ordinary-english-person-knew-what-happened-they-wouldnt-be-so-quick-to-b-3955839&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the_mary_wallopers.jpg&#8221;] NewsMusic News The Mary Wallopers on \u201cIrish expression\u201d and \u201cheavier\u201d new album \u2018Paddywhackery\u2019: \u201cIf the English knew what happened, they wouldn\u2019t be so quick to be marching with St George\u2019s crosses\u201d The rebel folk band spoke to NME about the isolation of being Irish in England, the fallout of having their Victorious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,78],"class_list":["post-2034913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nme-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}