A very well-known writer of my acquaintance once said that a key bridge for any writer to cross is to admit, to themselves and to the world, that they are a writer. A writer, when presented with an opportunity to out themselves, will often hesitate. They’ll say they do a bit of writing, or that they dabble, or that they turn their hand to it from time to time.

The Saw Doctors were formed from the remnants of other bands in the mid-1980s, out of Tuam. Growing up just over the Mayo/Galway border in Ballinrobe, I felt like I had stumbled into the maternity ward for the birth of a new musical dimension.