Having completed the recording of their new album – the lead single, ‘Your Guitar’, is out in September and it’s fab – The Saw Doctors take to the road for shows in Sky, Portlaoise (July 1); Arts Week, Roundstone (2); Trafest, Tramore (3); Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover (7); Oxegen, Punchestown (9); GAA Grounds, Silverbridge (9); Town Hall, Ramelton (10); Warwick, Salthill (15 & 16); Taibhdhearc, Galway (22); TF Royal Theatre, Castlebar (29); Marquee, Killanena (30); and Dancing With Lughnasa, Kinnity Castle (31).

With former Waterboy Anthony Thistlethwaite now a permanent Doctor, it promises to be a corking set of gigs.