The Mary Wallopers share, 'The Big Mixer', the final single shared from forthcoming album, Paddywhackery, out September 18.
Released ahead of band members Charles and Andrew Hendy playing to a sold out Croke Park, Dublin ahead of the Katie Taylor fight last Saturday (September 5), ‘The Big Mixer’ is an anthem to the all of the workers who keep the machine going, whatever the circumstances, whatever the weather, whatever the pay. Produced by The Coral’s James Skelly in a two week session in Liverpool, the track is the Wallopers at their very best: a celebration of the working classes, set to the kind of rollicking track that’s almost guaranteed to get the listener up and shouting along.
On the track, the band said, “When the ganger man Concrete Bob (aka Robert McAlpine, whose construction company once employed 200,000 Irish men) was on his deathbed, he responded to the suggestions that work on site should halted as a mark of respect when he passed with ‘No – keep the Big Mixer going, and keep Paddy behind it.’ This is a song for all the labourers, the nurses, the shelf fillers, the train drivers, the truck drivers, the Deliveroo drivers, the SNAs, the miners, the factory workers… all the people doing a hard day’s work and forced back to the Big Mixer to make profits for someone else.”
Listen to ‘The Big Mixer’ on the Celtic Official playlist.
The Mary Wallopers – brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy – started as a three-piece Irish ballad group traveling the length and breadth of the country singing & collecting songs. Their early live performances exuded a raw energy best described as Dead Kennedys meets The Clancy Brothers. The Wallopers expanded to a six-piece, now including Roisin Barrett on bass, Ken Mooney on drums , Finian O’ Connor on tin whistle/pipes and Catriona Gribben on accordion.
Following the release of the album, The Mary Wallopers will play a huge series of dates in the autumn. These gigs take in dates in Scotland, England and Wales before ending up with two huge arena gigs in Dublin and Glasgow.
