The Mary Wallopers to livestream ‘Christmas Special’ on Christmas Day

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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: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.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.