Irish folks band The Mary Wallopers performed Glastonbury for the second yr in a row this afternoon, transferring as much as the Park Stage from the Crows Nest and Acoustic Stage.
The six-piece introduced their energetic mixture of Celtic folks and punk to one of many primary levels for the primary time, charming festivalgoers with their anti-capitalist lyrics and liberal use of innuendo. They started with ‘Daring O’Donogue’ and ‘Love Will By no means Conquer Me’, earlier than ‘The Wealthy Man and The Poor Man’, throughout which they thrilled the gang with the lyric: “The wealthy are fucking cuntions”.
The band then went on to specific assist for Palestine amid the continuing Israel-Gaza warfare earlier than the beginning of the anti-war monitor ‘Plenty of Little Troopers’.
They have been witty too: “What, did you assume you have been coming to see professionals?” quipped Charles Hendy as his bandmates needed to rapidly retune between tracks.
Peter Hooton, frontman of Nineteen Nineties indie dance band The Farm, was amongst these in attendance as The Wallopers labored their method by way of renditions of people classics, tweeting: “Completely packed on the Park stage for the good @MaryWallopers.”
Completely packed on the Park stage for the good @marywallopers @glastonbury pic.twitter.com/KMww5P43Oe
— TheFarm/PeterHooton (@TheFarm_Peter) June 28, 2024
It seems as if the band might have discovered themselves some new followers with their set, one telling them on Twitter/X that they’d “by no means heard of you earlier than immediately however completely loving it, pure happiness,” whereas one other described them as “unreal”.
Earlier this week (June 24) the Mary Wallopers shared their newest EP, ‘Dwelling Boys Dwelling’, and introduced a UK tour for 2025. Yow will discover tickets right here.
In the meantime, Charles’ brother Andrew, who performs the banjo, instructed NME in March that “There must be a voice that’s giving the rowdy aspect of people again to folks.”
Charles himself stated, “The songs are all about fucking and ingesting and hanging landlords and fucking murdering the cunts. They’re political songs, and even the love songs might be ugly. You already know what I imply?”
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