| Deaf Festival Launch |
 Meeting House Square is crammed with revellers and the event is already
declared an out and out success as tickets have sold out.
Not bothering to rely solely on the Arts Council for funding for this year’s festival, DEAF organisers recently held a fundraising event in Meeting House square in order to bump up the budget for the main event happening in October. Arriving early to the temporarily roofed venue it is pleasantly surprising to find the place already beginning to fill up. Punters are enjoying the Porterhouse beers and post work snack food from Pintxo’s before proceedings kick off. Shortly later than billed at around 7pm Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands open the evening’s proceedings with a heady blend of upbeat synth rock and distorted vocals, and some excellent dancing to boot, the band receive a great reaction for such an early slot. Channel One and Thread Pulls both impressively follow the opening act and by the time The Jimmy Cake arrive onstage, Meeting House Square is crammed with revellers and the event is already declared an out and out success as tickets have sold out, leaving many latecomers to mill around the Temple Bar environs feeling very disappointed and out of the loop altogether.
The Jimmy Cake never fail to disappoint and tonight is no exception as they deliver the usual upbeat and energetic set that gets everyone dancing. Following whom the much anticipated Boxcutter has his turn and plays an eclectic set of dubstep and minimal. While some of the crowd can be heard mumbling about ‘bad sound quality’ he seems to do pretty well and most are impressed. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the evening are Spilly Walker, David Kitt’s new electro side project with his younger brother Robbie, who prove to be a definite highlight of the evening and by this point everyone is well-oiled and dancing hard, and the party atmosphere continues during closing act Sarsparilla. A resounding success of an evening in terms of raising funds but also in terms of whetting appetites for the festival itself. Review: Jade O' Callaghan See the Connected Gallery by Sara Devine Deaf runs from Oct 21-31 www.deafireland.com
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