If the Mary Wallopers’ story ever gets made into a movie - and it might, at the rate this working-class Irish band is winning fans with an irreverent mix of traditional folk and punk - then their meetings with the late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan will be pivotal scenes.

In the Hollywood version, the Hendy brothers Charles and Andrew, who with mate Sean McKenna formed the Mary Wallopers in 2016 - and tour Australia for the first time this month - might be sat at MacGowan’s knee. Imbibing Guinness and cannabis, Ireland’s unofficial poet laureate would grumble pearls of wisdom on how ‘divilment’ - that particular Gaelic brand of rebellious mischief - could be sold to the world.