The Saw Doctors confirm Tuam hometown show

The Saw Doctors have announced an exclusive Irish show at Galway's The Big Top marquee on the grounds of St. Jarlath’s College.

The Tuam show will take place on Saturday, August 19th 2023. Tickets for The Saw Doctors concert, titled ’The West’s Awake’, will go on sale on Friday March 24th at 9am.

After a five year break from touring, The Saw Doctors played a series of ‘comeback’ gigs in the UK last winter, selling out London Brixton Academy, Manchester Apollo and two concerts at the famous Glasgow Barrowlands.

In June this year, the band will play Glastonbury, heading the Acoustic Stage at the lauded festival on Friday, June 23rd. Davy Carton, Leo Moran and the Tuam shams will also headline the Wickham Festival in Hampshire in August and the Moseley Folk & Arts festival in Birmingham in September.

The Saw Doctors scored a surprise chart success when the vinyl release of the band’s debut album If This Is Rock And Roll, I Want My Old Job Back landed at No.3 in the Irish Album charts in August 2021. The Saw Doctors debut album was first released in 1991, going straight to No.1 in the Irish Charts with the singles, ‘I Useta Lover’ topping the charts for nine weeks and ’N17’ climbing to No. 2 in the charts.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release their debut album, The Saw Doctors also produced a 20-page souvenir booklet to accompany the vinyl reissue. The booklet included stories and memories from band members, Pearse Doherty, John Burke, John Donnelly, Davy Carton and Leo Moran on the writing and recording of the debut album in Loco Studios in Wales, as well as archive photos by Frank Miller from the debut album photo shoot in Galway in March 1991.

The Saw Doctors last played Tuam when they sold out the local football stadium in the glory days of the band’s break out success in September 1991.

“Born into a repressed, Catholic, conservative, small-town, agrarian, angst-ridden and showband infested society, The Saw Doctors are trying to preserve the positive elements of our Irish background and marry them to the sounds which have culturally invaded our milieu through TV, radio, social media, 45’s, fast food restaurants, 24-hour petrol stations and electric blankets," The Saw Doctors' Leo Moran said in a press release.

Tickets on sale Friday, 24 March at 9am.