The Mary Wallopers are set to livestream a ‘Christmas Special’ on Christmas Day this year – check out all the details below.
The band will return to where they began – a shed in Dandalk where they live-streamed their first gigs – and will share a set featuring “many ballads, multiple pints and even the Angel Gabriel,” a press release states.
The performance will go out live on Christmas night from 8pm GMT.
A press release for the event adds: “As the band says – stick your King’s Speech up your hole, and receive the Greatest Gift this Christmas: The Mary Wallopers LIVE.”
Check out a preview of the event here:
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The band, led by brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy, first gained attention through a series of raucous pandemic-era live streams. Since then, their two albums to date – 2022’s self-titled debut and last year’s ‘Irish Rock N Roll’ – have used centuries-old songs to tell a story of inequality and class warfare that hits a resonant note today.
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Speaking to NME earlier this year about how their music is resonating with people, Charles Hendry said: “It’s what folk music is there for. Woody Guthrie said that, and you know, it’s the blues, it’s punk, it’s hip-hop. It’s an expression of people who are not totally satisfied with the deal they’ve got in life and who can see that it’s not fair. The world is not fair and it’s not fair because people don’t want it to be fair. You know, politicians and fucking rich cunts, they’re all fucking bastards. They should all be actually killed.
“Rishi Sunak – he’s a bastard. What did he say the other day? All these people that say Britain has been on the wrong side of history, he said, ‘Well, you know, no country is perfect’. Piece of shit. We need to get the people who don’t want to be in power and get them and put them in power because it’s not working the way it is.”
The band released a three-track EP called ‘Home Boys Home’ in June and will see out 2024 with a string of live gigs in December.
They’re due to play four shows at Vicar Street in Dublin (December 14, 15, 27, 28), and
will also be taking to the stage at the Gleneagle INEC Arena in Killarney (21), Cork’s City Hall (23) and Belfast’s SSE Arena (29).
Tickets for the dates are on sale now here. Check out the full list of dates below.
The Mary Wallopers’ 2024 ‘Seven Drunken Nights’ tour dates are:
DECEMBER
14 – Vicar Street, Dublin
15 – Vicar Street, Dublin
21 – Gleneagle INEC Arena, Killarney
23 – City Hall, Cork
27 – Vicar Street, Dublin
28 – Vicar Street, Dublin
29 – SSE Arena, Belfast
The Mary Wallopers previously confirmed three headline shows at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow for this December, as well as a wider UK tour for March 2025 – including a huge gig at London’s Brixton Academy. Find any remaining tickets here.