The Saw Doctors featured in 2005’s first Sligo Live. In the meantime both the band and Festival have gone from strength to strength celebrating life in the west of Ireland. The Saw Doctors hold the record for the biggest selling Irish single with I Useta Love her.

The bands first album, ‘If This Is Rock & Roll, I Want My Old Job Back’ was Number One in Ireland for most of 1991 and contained the hit anthems Hay Wrap and N17. The Saw Doctors were discovered in the Quays in Galway in 1988 by Mike Scott who asked the band to open for The Waterboys’ Fisherman’s Blues tour and produced their first single, N17. Powered by the song writing partnership of Leo Moran (guitar) and Davy Carton (Vocals), their songs range from playing football against the old enemy to loving the prettiest girl in town but lacking the courage to tell her. The Saw Doctors have built up a reputation as a great live band.

“From country to punk to pop and rock’n'roll”, explains Leo Moran on their success, “we stole all our favourite bits”.

“if they could bottle the sort of bonhomie that makes an entire concert hall feel better, The Saw Doctors would have the medicine show to end them all”. Paul Sexton, The Times

“the Saw Doctors are one of the world’s most appealing roots-rock outfits”. Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post

The Radisson Sunday 25th October at 8.00pm sharp €25