12 Amazing Bands In Lark In The Park This August!!

Lark in the Park is a free entry all day music festival in Peoples Park this August, Sunday 22nd. There will be 12 bands performing, all with an association with Waterford Youth Arts, and are there to celebrate the Youth Arts 25-year anniversary. This is a family friendly picnic day in the park starting from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. The bands performing are Interplanetary Experience, Relic, Herecy, Kytte, Dirty ten to one, Siam Collective, Brendan Maher, Deaf Joe, Propellar Palms, Butterfly Band, Fighting Spiders and Solar Taxi. Throughout the week of August 16th, Waterford Youth Arts has organized street theatre events, art exhibitions, plays (Dark of the Moon in Garter Lane), and dance and movie events. For full details on the Birthday week see www.waterfordyoutharts.com. These events are not to be missed!

The paragraphs below are from singer/songwriter Deaf Joe and the brilliant band Dirty 10 to1 showing you what to expect from our great bands in Lark in the Park. For more information from the other bands check out http://www.waterfordyoutharts.com.

'Deaf Joe is the solo project of Joe Harney, who has in the past played with Deaf Animal Orchestra (where the 'deaf' part of his name comes from), Katie Kim and David Kitt. Joe is finally getting out there to perform his own music following huge encouragement from Donal Dineen and a few others he tentatively forwarded some demos to. His handful of solo gigs to date have already seen him play support to Fionn Regan, James Yorkston and O Emperor. In studio Joe treats his soulful songs with big arrangements and layers of ambience and texture; the live setup however consists of a simple combination of spanish guitar and vocals. He has recently completed his first as-yet untitled long player, due for release January 2011. Joe also works on theatre productions; he composed and compiled the soundtrack for last autumn's Red Kettle production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. You can sample some of his music at www.myspace.com/deafjoeharney.'


‘Dirty 10to1 are a band formed by four friends who don’t actually like each other that much but couldn’t find anyone else to start a band with. They have been gigging for the past two and a half years and on stage is where to catch them do what they do best, the band plays as if their very lives depend on it. They have also been described as the best band in scumbag rock today, be sure to catch them play live where you'll be sure to hear such classics like ‘Your mother's an animal’ ‘Send me auntie to Lourdes she's massive" and ‘My mouth is as dry as Gandhi’s slipper’. In the immortal words of Mike Watt, ‘This band could be your life’’