The Mary Wallopers return with new single 'The Juice'

The Mary Wallopers have released 'The Juice', the band's first new single in over a year.

Their last release was the Home Boys Home EP in June 2024, with the following year seeing the Irish folk-rock group perform everywhere from the 2024 Electric Picnic Main Stage to a sold-out Farview Park last month. 'The Juice' is their first release without co-founder Seán McKenna, who left the band in March.

'The Juice' was written by frontmen Andrew and Charles Hendy and produced by David Noonan of Just Mustard at Black Mountain Studio in their hometown of Dundalk. It showcases the distinctive high-energy, folky sound of The Mary Wallopers– as they call it in the song, "This is Irish rock-n-roll!"

Led by the politically-minded, quippy lyricism of the Hendy brothers, The Mary Wallopers called 'The Juice' a "rattling, rallying call of necessary delinquent behaviour" that builds up to a crashing, smashing culmination.

"This is a song for all the exhausted people, fed up of all the greedy crooks, who still manage to squeeze a bit of juice out of life," said The Mary Wallopers of the track.

Under joyful string-picking, Ken Mooney's peppy drums and Róisín Barrett's jaunty bass drive the song to and through Finnian O'Connor's energetic uilleann pipe melodies.

According to the band, 'The Juice' is a song they hope to play "at festivals the world over, whatever time of day and whatever weather’s blasting the cobwebs away."

Listen to 'The Juice' below: