The Irish folk band The Mary Wallopers from Dundalk has kicked off its biggest tour to date, accompanying their third album, Paddywhackery. The Guardian saw the concert at Edinburgh's Corn Exchange and describes an evening when legs and pints of beer flew to the folk songs. The audience even dove into the crowd during the new song Seán na Sagart, about a hired killer who hunted priests in the early 18th century. The Guardian ↗
The six-piece lineup plays banjo, tin whistle, accordion, and Irish pipes. According to the review, the new material is often frenetically fast and mixes politics with humour: the single The Big Mixer rocked the hall with lyrics about greasing the cogs of capitalism, while the hedonistic Kit Kat Club sounds like a hangover even before the night is over. But the band can also calm the room – the original song Landlord's Demise is sung by Andrew Hendy on the bodhrán as a slow, peculiar march. The Guardian ↗
The founding members are brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy. They closed the concert with the roughly 300-year-old jig Frost Is All Over, and the tour through Britain and Ireland will run until October 30. The Guardian ↗
From The Mary Wallopers' 2022 debut album comes their version of Dominic Behan's song Building Up and Tearing England Down.
The Mary Wallopers at a festival in Bergen, Norway. Photo: Løken / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Mary Wallopers: at Irish folk gigs, legs and pints fly
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