Tuam natives The Saw Doctors have reached another new height in their career, storming up the Irish charts once again to hit the number one spot, 17 years after their last chart-topping hit.
The band’s rocked-up version of the Sugababes hit ‘About You Now’ is the band’s first number one hit since September of 1991 when ‘Hay Wrap’ hit the top of the charts. Just a year prior to that the band had another huge success when ‘I Useta Lover’ reached the top spot in autumn of 1990, staying there for nine weeks and eventually going on to become Ireland’s biggest ever selling single.
“It's a lovely buzz to be Number One again after all these years,” said the band’s lead singer, Davy Carton. The band beat out international artists such as the Kings of Leon and Pink to reach the top spot this week.
“We first played The Sugababes song, ‘About You Now’, on the Podge and Rodge show,” explained guitarist Leo Moran, who said that the band were persuaded to release the song as a charity single by the Leaving Cert girls at Salerno College. They convinced the band, and local record shop Zhivago, to donate the proceeds the Salerno Cystic Fibrosis Fund in Galway, in memory of their classmate Emily Feeney who died from the illness last December. To date, CD sales from ‘About You Now’ have raised €10,000 for the school fund.
The Saw Doctors, who were discovered 20 years ago by Mike Scott of The Waterboys while playing a gig in The Quays Pub in the city, were honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this year at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards.
