The Saw Doctors
Sep
The Saw Doctors
Wednesday WK 3 (23 September)
Jean Monet Lecture Theatre
8pm
They’re back. Rolling round the country for more than two decades and The Saw Doctors are still one of the best live bands you’ll witness. From the main stage at Oxygen, after our mini main stage on campus at the Freshers Ball last year, where 2,000 of ye got your hoe down in the courtyard, the Tuam Troubadours return and this time to the more intimate surrounds of the Jean Monet Theatre on Wednesday September 23rd. An Irish band to the core, The Saw Doctors have a huge following in the States and U.K where they tour regularly. Their songs speak of ordinary people, filled with humour, they write of love; messing it up, making it work, Ireland’s landscape, gaelic football, dreary Irish ‘summers’, drinking, depression, desperation and the clergy; of whom they have been less than complimentary (Carton appeared at the 1991 IRMA awards dressed as priest with the rest of the band dressed as altar boys) The Saw Doctors have a rogue-ish, rakish, wild and world weary charm that is laced with energy and ultimately optimism. Everything may be going to hell in a handbasket but we may as well have a laugh while it’s happening!
For more info and sounds check out www.sawdoctors.com