The Saw Doctors To UK Tour New Studio Album & Ticket Details
Monday, 11 October 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
After a triumphant 19 date UK tour in 2009; The Saw Doctors have announced a seven date jaunt in November and December including two shows at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
After a gap of five years, The Saw Doctors released their first studio album of new songs in the UK last month. 'The Further Adventures of The Saw Doctors' CD was recorded in Rockfield Studios in Wales and in Grouse Lodge Studios in Co. Westmeath, Ireland over the last eighteen months under the direction of veteran UK producer, Philip Tennant, who produced the bands debut album, 'If This Is Rock & Roll, I Want My Old Job Back'.
In the last two years, Ireland's Saw Doctors have blazed back phoenix-like from almost two decades of unsung glory. Out of the blue, their rambunctious cover of The Sugababes' 'About You Now' rocketed to Number One in Ireland, restoring them to their rightful place as that nation's best-loved good-time band. This also prompted the release of their Best of collection 'To Win Just Once - Best of The Saw Doctors' which debuted at Number Three in the Irish charts last year and went on to achieve platinum status.
Fronted by two criminally under-rated songwriters, Leo Moran and Davy Carton, this is the band that entered the record books back in 1990 when 'I Useta Lover' spent nine weeks at Number One, becoming Ireland's best-selling single of all time. They followed up with the Number Two, 'N17', and a chart-topping album, 'If This Is Rock And Roll, I Want My Old Job Back'. Irresistibly singable songs ('To Win Just Once', 'Hay Wrap' and 'Same Oul' Town' to name but three), still flowed from Moran and Carton; their stormingly exuberant live shows remained unparalleled celebrations of the spirit of great rock; and their substantial phalanx of hardcore fans on both sides of the Atlantic never wavered in support.
In March, The Saw Doctors toured Australia for the first time in seventeen years, playing the Port Fairy Folk Festival, in Victoria. The Age Newspaper in Melbourne said "The most popular act of the Port Fairy Festival was hard-driving Irish band, The Saw Doctors with their infectious songs about love, soccer and small town life".
The Saw Doctors also made two tours to the US this year, selling out the 2,400 capacity House of Blues venue in Boston in May. This summer, The Saw Doctors have played Glastonbury Festival, Oxegen Festival in Ireland and V Festival in Stafford and Chelmsford.
24th November 2010, Town Hall-Chelt, Cheltenham
26th November 2010, Shepherds Bush Empire, London
27th November 2010, Barrowland, Glasgow
28th November 2010, The Journal Tyne Theatre Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne
30th November 2010, The Junction Cambridge, Cambridge
1st December 2010, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Birmingham
3rd December 2010, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
4th December 2010, Academy Leeds, Leeds
5th December 2010, Norwich Uea, Norwich
7th December 2010, Roadmender, Northampton
9th December 2010, The Palace, Bridgwater, Somerset
11th December 2010, Carling Apollo Manchester, Manchester
14th December 2010, Rock City, Nottingham
15th December 2010, Town Hall- Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough
18th December 2010, Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Tickets for The Saw Doctors are onsale now prices at £21.50 for regional shows and £22.50 for the Birmingham and London shows.
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