One of the best hoaxes online in recent weeks was the story that July 6, 2010 was the date in the future that Marty McFly flew to in Back To The Future, leaving the eighties behind. In reality the date in the movie was 2015, but if the 2010 date had been true, then McFly would have returned to the eighties, saying "I have seen the future, folks and yes, the Saw Doctors are still in it."
When McFly was time travelling in the De Lorean in the mid-eighties, the Tuam band was in its infancy, having morphed through several different shapes and sizes, and were on the cusp of the breakthrough that has seen them travel the world.
Now in 2010, they have gone back to the type of strong songs, great lyrics and powerful riffs and percussions that characterised their first two albums and on Tuesday night last in Kelly's, Bridge Street, they test drove that album in front of an intimate audience of a few hundred.
And it worked. The new album (which had the working title The Country Is F**ked/The Funtree is Cooked but which was dropped in order to allow the likes of Larry Gogan to plug it ) is entitled The Further Adventures of the Saw Doctors and will hit the shops on Friday September 10.
However already a single from it entitled ‘Taking The Train’ is doing well on iTunes. Most albums have at most three good songs and eight fillers. By my count, this new offering has at least six or seven tracks that will form the basis of their repertoire in the coming years and will simultaneously copperfast their support and grown a new fanbase. ‘Take the Train’, ‘Someone Loves You’ and ‘As The Light Fades’ are fantastic pieces, while ‘Hazard’ with its depiction of unemployment noughties style is bound to become an anthem of the era. ‘Well Byes’ is the mandatory doffing a cap to the characters of Tuam while ‘Goodbye Again’ is an ideal show-closer.
The real date that Marty McFly flew to in the future in that movie was October 21, 2015. There is no doubt that when he eventually does arrive in Tuam Square on that date, the wide boys of the town will, after ‘lamping’ the De Lorean, confirm for him that The Saw Doctors are still going. On the basis of this album and show, there’s still a lot to come from these guys.
