Top Irish Band, The Saw Doctors, who celebrate 20 years on the road this Autumn, will play a 17 date UK Tour from November 28 to December 20, featuring headline shows at Glasgow Barrowland (Nov 29), London's Shepherd's Bush Empire (Dec 5), and Manchester Apollo (Dec 20).

Described by Chris Evans on his Radio 2 show as "one of the best live bands", The Saw Doctors will release a new Live in Concert DVD featuring their Greatest Hits on December 8. The new DVD, entitled "Live in the USA" was recorded last August at the famous Melody Tent in Cape Cod, MA and includes The Saw Doctors three Irish Number Ones, I Useta Lover, Hay Wrap and N17 as well as the bands two UK Top Twenty hits, World of Good and To Win Just Once.

In February, The Saw Doctors were honoured at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards ceremony in Dublin with a Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating the Band's musical achievements over the last 20 years - The Saw Doctors single, I Useta Lover, is still the biggest selling single ever in the history of Irish pop, staying nine weeks at Number 1 and outselling U2, Sinead O'Connor and Westlife. 

The Saw Doctors came together in Tuam, Co. Galway in 1988 when Leo Moran, realising that the potential for Irish reggae was somewhat limited, quit local group, Too Much For the Whiteman, and got together with Davy Carton after his punk band Blaze X disbanded , despite the fact that their first single “Some Hope” was chosen as Single of the Week on RTE Radio 2 in Ireland. 

The Saw Doctors were discovered in the back room of the Quays Pub in Galway in 1988 by Mike Scott of The Waterboys who was recording The Fishermans' Blues album in nearby Spiddal. Mike Scott asked The Saw Doctors to open for The Waterboys' on the Fisherman's Blues tour of the UK and Ireland in the Autumn of 1988 and produced their first single, N17.

The Saw Doctors are powered by the song writing partnership of Leo Moran (guitar) and Davy Carton (Vocals). Their songs range from the plight of Ireland's unmarried mothers to the effect of strong religion on a nation's youth; from playing Gaelic football against a neighbouring village to loving the prettiest girl in town but lacking the courage to tell her.

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