LEO MORAN & ANTHONY THISTLETHWAITE
Tickets $20.00 ~ Showtime 8:00 pm - 410-795-1041
studied French and Sociology at the National University of Ireland,
Galway. He later trained as a secondary teacher and earned a higher
diploma in education. At Galway, he met several prominent figures in the
area’s music scene, including Padraig Boran and Ollie Jennings, who
would become the Saw Doctors’ manager. In addition, he played in a local reggae band, Too Much For The White Man. Eventually, Moran formed The Saw Doctors with Davy Carton of Blaze X.
Anthony “Anto” Thistlethwaite
(born in Lutterworth, England) is a British multi-instrumentalist best
known as a founder member (with Mike Scott) 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 Quarter, in 1980 Thistlethwaite moved to London and in 1981 his saxophone could be heard on Robyn Hitchcock’s “Groovy Decay” album as well as Nikki Sudden’s “Waiting on Egypt.” Mike Scott heard the sax solo on Nikki’s “Johnny Smiled Slowly” and invited Thistlethwaite to come and play with his fledgling band “The Red and The Black.” Their first recording together “A Girl Called Johnny” was to be released as The Waterboys’ first single in March 1983 and featured Thistlethwaite’s trademark tenor sax howl. Although Thistlethwaite is mainly known as a saxophonist he has also featured on mandolin, harmonica, Hammond organ, guitar and bass-guitar with The Waterboys
and other acts. During the 1980s and 90s he also featured on recordings
by: World Party, Fairground Attraction, Psychedelic Furs, Sharon
Shannon, Bob Dylan, China Crisis, Johnny Thunders, Donovan and more. He
released three solo albums during the 1990s which included contributions
from the likes of: Kirsty MacColl, Eddi Reader and Ralph McTell as well
as many musicians including (Rolling Stones’ guitarist) Mick Taylor and
Sonny Landreth. His third album “Crawfish and Caviar” consisted of songs recorded in St. Petersburg, Russia and Lafayette, Louisiana. For the past twelve years Thistlethwaite has been a full-time member of The Saw Doctors from County Galway, Republic of Ireland. Sharon Shannon, also a member of The Waterboys, recorded a song that she named “Anto’s Cajun Cousins,” after his Louisiana Thistlethwaite relatives, on her eponymous debut album. www.uptownconcerts.com
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