[PREORDER] The Mary Wallopers - Paddywhackery (Indie Exclusive Guinness Colored Vinyl)

Indie Exclusive Guinness Colored Vinyl

Paddywhackery is the third album from The Mary Wallopers, the six-piece ballad group from Dundalk, County Louth. It follows The Mary Wallopers (2022) and Irish Rock N Roll (2023), which reached number 2 on the UK Official Albums Chart and number 1 on the UK Record Store Chart. The band is Charles Hendy, Andrew Hendy, Sean McKenna, Finian O'Connor, Róisín Barrett and Ken Mooney.

James Skelly of The Coral produced the record, cut in Liverpool over two weeks with engineer Chris Taylor. The title takes back a word often aimed at the band: "If people are going to call us paddywhackery anyway, we might as well just call the album Paddywhackery."

Originals sit alongside traditional material. Charles Hendy has said the lead single "Crowns of England" is about feeling like an outsider as an Irish emigrant in England, and that "Landlord's Demise" takes up the collapse of the landlord system in Ireland, drawing on Tom Barry's writing. "Seán na Sagart" is named for the seventeenth-century Mayo priest-hunter; "Banks of the Roses" is a traditional Irish song; "Worker's Song" was written by Ed Pickford. The band also appear on Dropkick Murphys' 2026 album For the People, on "Bury the Bones."

Released on the band's own BC Records. Guinness colored vinyl, exclusive to independent record stores.

Tracklist

1. Crowns of England
2. The Juice
3. Seán na Sagart
4. Smuggling the Tin
5. Castlecoe Hill
6. The Big Mixer
7. Worker's Song
8. Banks of the Roses
9. Landlord's Demise
10. Kit Kat Club
11. Mickey Dam