Culture Club: Andrew Hendy
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Who is Andrew Hendy and what’s the new Paddy Wackery album about?
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And joining us for the Culture Club today from the Merry Wallopers, we have Andrew Hendi. Thank you very much for joining us, Andrew. Thanks for
having me. How are you getting on?
Congratulations on the new album Paddy Wackery Just Out and I know you're going to be playing the Three Arena on the tenth of December following your UK tour. Before I start asking you about the new album, let's get a bit of a flavour of it, a little bit of Crowns of England.
The butchersy bring waving in the fragrant London smug. Just makes me want to go beyond our work and in debug Their eyes get away as I start to sing the stance of fine and then And they don't know if they should collapse Or throw me out again. For all the crimes in England, I couldn't quench my thirst. I wonder if I do it's like quench
Tell us about the new album. Yeah, uh so it's um it's called Paddy Wackery. It's uh it's mostly original songs this time. Last few albums that we've done have been all old folk songs, bar uh three or four original songs. So we've gone a bit more harder with the with the sonic um flavour of this album. It's a bit more heavy, a bit more garage rock sort of drama. But um
And how do you reckon the fans will react to that? Or do you won do you worry about that or is it just about giving them and say, like it or don't like it?
I think well, for us anyway, like trying to write songs or trying to make anything, I'm always thinking that it's not gonna go down well and being like, Oh God, uh what's this gonna be like? And I suppose to have a bit of doubt in the piece of music that you're making It uh it makes you make sure that it's good before you actually let it out. So it's been going down well r live every time we've played any of the new songs, even in countries where like for example, a few weeks ago we played in Poland for the first time ever. And uh there was a lot of people there in the crowd who I don't think they even wouldn't have been that familiar with our recordings of our previous albums. But the new songs were going down as well as the old ones and like the crowd were going mad for them.
So It seems to be uh It seems to be going in well, so.
So what do you attribute your success in recent years to?
I honestly I think just The fact that we are we don't really pretend to be something we're not. We're just m we are what we are and we uh we sing about what we know about and We I don't know. I d I think we just are what we are, you know? Like we we play we play songs with topics that we can relate to. We are mixing kind of old Irish music with contemporary Irish music and like I think it's just uh it's very simple. There's a DIY attitude to what we do. We don't have any like big labels or anything like that. It's just
But would it be fair to say that there's a bit of a wave at present when you look like Solancom or even extended Fontaine's D C kneecap, whatever, distinctly Irish and yet with an enormous international influence on what you're doing.
Yeah, yeah. And I think in a way it it's kinda always been the way that Irish Irish artists and and uh Irish expression is is uh is taken so well around the world. You know, it's it's happened before. And I think there's there is a wave at the minute where it's being appreciated and it's good that uh global kind of media is picking up on how much talent is in Ireland. It's obviously such a small island, but we've made a huge cultural impact on the world for hundreds of years. So it's it's not really that surprising that it's still the case. Like, you know, there's so many great bands in the country. And uh It's deadly. Like, you know, even to be at a festival or or to be at uh uh to be going to gigs and or well, especially if you go to a festival, a lot of the bands that are now headlining are people that we know and have started the same way of us, like coming up over the years playing gigs and smaller gigs and like it's deadly to be able to see a lot of Irish people doing that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Andrew Hendy and what’s the new Paddy Wackery album about?
0:00–5:20
2
How did the band decide to make Paddy Wackery heavier and more garage‑rock‑oriented?
5:20–10:47
3
What do the band think fans will think of the new, louder sound?
10:47–15:15
4
Why does Andrew say the Mary Wallopers’ success comes from staying true to their roots?
15:15–21:12
5
What’s the story behind the band’s name and its unexpected origin?
21:12–27:37
6
Which Irish and international artists have shaped the band’s musical influences?
27:37–31:11
7
What TV shows and tour‑bus anecdotes did Andrew share and why do they matter?
31:11–35:24
8
Which Jinx Lennon songs does Andrew recommend and why are they essential?
35:24–40:21
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