The Cure is the 6th studio recording release by Irish rock band The Saw Doctors

The Saw Doctors

The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in Ireland, including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover," topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990, and still holds the record for the...

. The CD was released on The Saw Doctor's own record label, Shamtown Records and has the catalogue number of SAWDOC013CD. All the songs on the album are original songs written by members of the band, except for Track 11, "Funny World", which is written by old friend Paul Cunniffe

Paul Cunniffe

Paul Cunniffe was a British-born Irish singer-songwriter. He fronted the 1980s punk band Blaze X.-Early life and career:...

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Track listing

1. "Out For A Smoke"
2. "Last Summer In New York"
3. "Addicted"
4. "Stars Over Cloughanover"
5. "If Only"
6. "Wisdom of Youth"
7. "Vulnerable"
8. "Me Without You"
9. "Going Home"
10. "Your Guitar"
11. "Funny World" (Paul Cunniffe
    Paul Cunniffe
    Paul Cunniffe was a British-born Irish singer-songwriter. He fronted the 1980s punk band Blaze X.-Early life and career:...
    
    )
12. "I'll Say Goodnight"

Band

• Davy Carton
  Davy Carton
  Davy Carton is a singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist from Tuam, County Galway, in the Republic of Ireland. He is best known as a core member of the Saw Doctors, the folk-rock band he co-founded with Leo Moran and others in 1987....
  
  : Vocals
  Human voice
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  , Guitar
  Guitar
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• Leo Moran
  Leo Moran
  Leo Moran is best known as lead guitarist and sometimes vocalist in the Irish folk rock band The Saw Doctors....
  
  : Guitar, Backing Vocals
• Fran Breen: Drums
  Drum kit
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• Anthony Thistlethwaite
  Anthony Thistlethwaite
  Anthony "Anto" Thistlethwaite is a British multi-instrumentalist best known as a founder member of the folk-rock group The Waterboys and later as a long-standing member of Irish rock band The Saw Doctors.After a year busking in Paris, playing tenor saxophone around the streets of the Latin...
  
  : Bass Guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , Harmonica
  Harmonica
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  , Saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Derek Murray: Keyboards

Guest musicians

• Nicola Geddes: Cello
  Cello
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• Kenneth Rice: Violin
  Violin
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• Giles Packham: Piano
  Piano
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  , Synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  s, Programming
• Paul Barrett: Backing Vocals
• Jimmy Moran: Guitar
• Christopher Carton: Percussion
• Niall O'Grady: Guitar
• Eamonn Goggin: Bell
  Bell (instrument)
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  , Shaker

External links

• The Saw Doctors Official Website