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Special Performance for Fans in FDNY

"The People's Band" from Galway, Ireland, played an acoustic set at Rescue Company #3 in the Bronx on Monday, February 25 for some of their most heroic fans, Fire Department Rescue Workers and families.

The band performed several songs, including the touching "I Hope You Meet Again" from their first album.

Firefighter Chris Ryan and his colleagues, long-time fans of the Saw Doctors, contacted the band and invited them to the firehouse. Rescue Company #3 lost seven members in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11. The firehouse is located at 453 E. 176 street between Washington Ave and Park Ave.

The Saw Doctors with Good Day New York host Jim Ryan and other members of the show

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"From country to punk to pop and rock'n'roll, we stole all our favorite bits" says Saw Doctors' guitarist Leo Moran of the band's unique musical cocktail, as amply demonstrated on the band's fifth studio album, Villains?, released on February 5th. The band's sold-out live performances have consistently wowed American audiences since its first U.S. tour in 1991. In the ten years since, The Saw Doctors, revered for their exhilarating live performances and heartfelt songwriting, have built one of the most fervent fan bases in rock and roll.

On Villains?, The Saw Doctors delve into new sonic textures and develop a bigger, rockier sound than on previous releases. "From country to punk to pop to rock 'n' roll, we stole all our favourite bits," says lead guitarist and songwriter Leo Moran. The addition of The Saw Doctors' first permanent horn section - Anthony Thistlethwaite on saxophone and Danni Healy on trumpet - allowed forays into reggae and soul, as well. Percussionist Padraig Stevens is also new to the band.

Lyrically, Moran and singer Dave Carton take on love, politics, and life in the honest, unpretentious style that has won them millions of fans and raves like, "Future historians and archaeologists will get a better picture of life in late-20th Century Ireland from The Saw Doctors' albums than they will from anything by U2 or the Pogues." (Edinburgh Evening News).

In the record's title track, Moran takes a look at moral ambiguities in modern society, asking, "Can you tell me who the villains are?" On the lighter - but no less resonant - side, "Chips" is the late-night lament of a bar patron who courted a girl and ended up with just a bag of chips and a burger.

"There is a place in rock 'n' roll mythology for that rare phenomenon, the people's band... The Saw Doctors are the latest in this strangely noble line." -
The London Times