I appreciate Brent Plate's analysis in these pages of Indie religious contemplation. But he must know that Americans are newcomers to the history of musical pronouncements on religion, and particularly the criticism of institutional religions. The Saw Doctors — one of my favorite bands — have been astute observers of religious hypocrisy for twenty years now. They have a well-deserved reputation for insulting Catholicism.
The band is the project of two boys from Tuam, County Galway — Leo Moran and Davy Caton — who left their respective reggae and post-punk bands to create a duo playing Galway pubs, which then became a bona fide folksy rock group in 1986.
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