To Win Just Once: The Best of the Saw Doctors + UK, Ireland tour dates

Fans and Media are invited to:

The Saw Doctors Acoustic Performance and Signing
Borders
120 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0JR
On Tuesday 27th October, 2009 @ 6.30pm

Ireland's best loved rock band celebrates the release of their new album To Win Just Once: The Best of the Saw Doctors with an intimate acoustic appearance and signing.

Fans and media are invited to a unique London appearance from The Saw Doctors, who will be playing four acoustic songs and meeting fans to promote the release of their new album To Win Just Once: The Best of THE SAW DOCTORS, out on Universal Music / UMTV.

The album, which contains the band's very best and most-loved songs including "Hay Wrap", "N17", the recent Irish No.1 cover of the Sugababes song "About You Now", and their latest single "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not", is the first element of a very busy Christmas for the Saw Doctors, who will be touring the UK and Ireland in November and December.

Buy Music:

The Saw Doctors on amazon.co.uk

The hard working Saw Doctors will be making a further 3 appearances to meet fans and sign albums across the UK in October as follows:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

October 2009

Wednesday 28th October Leeds
Signing Only 6.30pm
Borders Briggate / 94-96 Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NP

Thursday 29th October Manchester
Signing Only 6.30pm
WH Smiths, Trafford Centre, 34 Peel Avenue, Mancs M17 8BA

Friday 30th October Glasgow
Signing Only 5pm
WH Smiths, 53/55 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8AH

Watch "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" video ft the Irish female volley ball team:

The Saw Doctors UK and Ireland November / December 2009 tour dates

(Dates and information subject to change.)

November 2009

Fri Nov 20 Belfast Spring & Airbrake
Sat Nov21 Belfast Spring & Airbrake
Fri Nov 27 Newcastle Tyne Theatre
Sat Nov 28 Glasgow Barrowland
Sun Nov 29 Wolverhampton Wulfrun

December 2009

Tues Dec 1 Lincoln Engine Shed
Wed Dec 2 Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
Fri Dec 4 Liverpool Philharmonic
Sat Dec 5 London 02 Shepherds Bush Empire
Mon Dec 7 Falmouth Princess Pavilion
Tues Dec 8 Bristol 02 Academy
Wed Dec 9 Cardiff Sub 29
Fri Dec 11 Manchester Apollo
Sat Dec 12 Leeds Academy
Sun Dec 13 Norwich UEA
Tues Dec 15 Oxford 02 Academy
Wed Dec 16 Sheffield The Plug
Fri Dec 18 London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

ABOUT THE SAW DOCTORS

The band's remarkable resurgence over the past year has brought them to a whole new audience who will welcome this opportunity to soak up the songs that have delighted Saw Doctors fans since 1990, when they scored their first No1 with I Useta Lover.

Formed in 1986, The Saw Doctors were helped along the road to fame and fortune when they were taken under the wing of Mike Scott of The Waterboys who saw them during their six-week residency at the Quays Bar, Galway. Scott took them on tour with The Waterboys and produced their rousing, singalong debut single, N17, which does for the West Of Ireland what Route 66 did for America.

Despite their abiding love of Ireland, The Saw Doctors' refuse to see their native land through rose-tinted glasses and have never shied away from controversy. They parodied catholic confession in Bless Me Father, took a hilarious swipe at a disgraced former Bishop of Galway in Howya Julia, and appeared live on TV at the 1991 IRMA Awards with singer Davy Carton dressed as a priest and the rest of the band dressed as altar boys.

Perhaps the best-publicised departure from the fold came in 1993, when keyboardist Tony Lambert jumped ship after winning approximately one million euros when he hit the jackpot in the Irish Lottery. It's interesting to reflect that he quit the band after winning just once. Had he remained, he'd have won twice, when the band hit No1 again last year with their rousing cover of The Sugababes "About You Now".

Current Line-up

Davy Carton: Vocals, Guitar
Leo Moran: Guitars, Vocals
Anthony Thistlethwaite: Bass Guitar, Saxophone
Kevin Duffy: Keyboards, Vocals
Eimhin Cradock: Drums, Vocals

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The Saw Doctors on amazon.co.uk

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