The Saw Doctors coming to Mullingar

The Saw Doctors, who celebrate 20 years on the road, will play the Mullingar Park Hotel on February 13, 2009. Earlier this year The Saw Doctors were honoured at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award.Over the years, The Saw Doctors have built up a reputation as a great live band. They have toured in Australia, Canada, USA, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Norway and the UK.The Saw Doctors came together in Tuam, Co. Galway in 1988 when Leo Moran got together with Davy Carton after his punk band Blaze X disbanded. The fledgling band was discovered in the back room of the Quays Pub in Galway by Mike Scott of The Waterboys. Mike asked The Saw Doctors to open for The Waterboys" on the Fisherman"s Blues tour of the UK and Ireland in that Autumn and produced their first single, N17.Success came early for The Saw Doctors as their second single, I Useta Love Her, went to Number One in Ireland in September 1990, and was still Number One that Christmas.The band then re-released their first single N17, and on the back of I Useta Love Her"s success, N17 went to Number One. The band"s first album, If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back, was Number One for most of 1991.After picking several IRMA awards in the early nineties and posting a second Number One album (All The Way From Tuam), The Saw Doctors set about touring the UK and in February 1996, the band"s third album 'Same Oul" Town' went to Number Six in the UK Top Twenty, yielding two Top Twenty UK singles, World of Good, and To Win Just Once.They appeared on Top of the Pops twice in 1996 to promote the two singles.In 1997, the Saw Doctors undertook their first major coast to coast US tour and as a result landed a US record deal with Paradigm Records in New York. The compilation album, Sing A Powerful Song, was released in November 1997.Songs From Sun Street, the Saw Doctors" fourth album was released on both sides of the Atlantic in 1998. The album release was celebrated in the UK with a sell out show at London"s Royal Albert Hall. In America, the Saw Doctors headlined the American Fleadh concerts with Van Morrisson and Sinead O"Connor.After a gap of 17 years, The Saw Doctors returned to the top of the Irish Music Charts with their rocked up version of the Sugababes hit, About You Now, which beat off international artists such as Pink and Kings of Leon, to make it to number One in the Irish Charts in October 2008.'We first played The Sugababes song "About You Now", on the Podge and Rodge show' explains Saw Doctors guitarist Leo Moran, who says that the band decided to release About You Now as a charity single to benefit the Salerno Cystic Fibrosis Fund in Galway. To date, CD sales from About You Now have raised €10,000 for the school fund.The Saw Doctors are powered by the songwriting partnership of Leo Moran (guitar) and Davy Carton (vocals). Their songs range across issues such as the plight of Ireland"s unmarried mothers to the effect of strong religion on a nation"s youth; from playing Gaelic football against a neighbouring village to loving the prettiest girl in town but lacking the courage to tell her.For more info on the band check out http://www.sawdoctors.com or contact the Mullingar Park Hotel on 044 9344446 for ticket details.