Saw Doctors to showcase new material in city gigs

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The Saw Doctors, who play Glastonbury and Oxegen Festivals later this Summer, will play two special concerts in Galway City on Tuesday June 1 and Wednesday June 2, in Kelly's Bar, Bridge St The band will be showcasing their new studio album which they have just finished recording in Grouse Lodge Studios, Co Westmeath.

There are only 200 tickets available for each of these two intimate shows. Tickets cost €15, plus charges, and are available from Zhivago Records in Shop Street, Galway, and from Ticketmaster outlets.

The Saw Doctors will preview all 11 songs from the forthcoming (as yet untitled) album including the upcoming single, Takin' The Train. Shamtown Records will release the new studio album in Ireland and the UK in late August.

Meanwhile, the band headlined a major free outdoor concert in Chicago at the Millennium Park last Saturday at the invitation of the City's Mayor, Richard Daley. This Friday, May 14, they play sold-out shows in New York at Irving Plaza and on Saturday, they are in Boston at the House of Blues.

Last month, the Tuam based band successfully toured Australia, headlining the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria and playing sold-out shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth. According to The Age Newspaper in Melbourne, “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 band recently achieved platinum status in Ireland for their compilation CD, To Win Just Once;The Best of The Saw Doctors, which was released last October and which has so far sold over 25,000 copies.