The Mary Wallopers have announced their third album, “Paddywhackery”, and their biggest headline tour to date to follow its release.
The album will be released on September 18th 2026, and new single “Crows of England” is out now.
The Dundalk band recorded the album in a two-week period in Liverpool with producer James Skelly (The Coral) and engineer Chris Taylor.
Andrew and Charles Hendy of the band commented: “It’s mainly about the fact that people would call us “paddywhackery” because we are too Irish or whatever, but it’s all very f*****g 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.”
The video for the new single is out now, directed by James Slater (Jamie T, Sam Fender, Blossoms) and featuring Danielle Galligan (House of Guinness, Game of Thrones, The Walsh Sisters).
As part of the tour, The Mary Wallopers will play two huge arena shows in Dublin and Glasgow, with full dates listed below.
The Coral will also support in Brighton (17th Oct), Dublin (10th Dec) and Glasgow (19th Dec).
Tickets for all shows go on sale on Friday 12th June and will be available via https://lnk.to/TMW2026 or from marywallopers.com, ticketmaster.co.uk and gigsandtours.com.
THE MARY WALLOPERS HEADLINE TOUR 2026
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
Pre-order Paddywhackery here: RepublicofMusic.lnk.to/paddywhackery.
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