Munster Express Online

‘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 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. At present Joe is also working as composer on Little Red Kettle’s upcoming summer production ‘There Might Be Zombies’, which is due to run in Garter Lane this coming August. He also 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. This Artbeat gig

begins on Saturday, July 24th in Blackfriars (behind BPM Records) at 4.30pm.