Saw Doctors head for Oz

The Saw Doctors are putting the finishing touches to their new album at the Westmeath recording studios once used by Michael Jackson – and they are making the final preparations for their first Australian tour in 17 years. 

The band are completing their new studio album, the succinctly titled The Hazard is Back in The Cellar and other Modern Love Stories, at Grouse Lodge in Co. Westmeath with producer Phil Tennant – the lads are finalising the tracklisting and mixes for the new Saw Doctors album which has now been fully recorded. 

Then it’s off Down Under for the March tour of Australia by The Saw Doctors, where the band will play eleven shows, including three performances at the famous Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria. 

On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, The Saw Doctors will play the Metro venue in Sydney. Other major Australian cities on The Saw Doctors itinerary include the opening concert in Perth at the Fly by Night Club on March 4, Melbourne's Corner Hotel on March 11, The Gov Club in Adelaide on March 18 and finishing up in Brisbane at the Hi Fi Club on March 19. 

The March tour by The Saw Doctors will be the bands first trip down under in seventeen years – back in 1993 Guinness invited the Tuam band over to Sydney for the cities Oyster Festival. 

Universal Australia will release To Win Just Once..The Best of The Saw Doctors throughout Australia on Friday February 26, ahead of the eleven date Australian tour.  

The Best of The Saw Doctors CD has recently been awarded Platinum Status in Ireland by the Irish Recorded Music Industry. 

Aside from their trip to Australia, the band is also looking forward to their album release here in June, and they have already confirned major summer festival appearances in Norway and Switzerland for July and August. 

See full story inside this week’s Connacht Tribune.