These type of community festivals still excite me and the Belfast crowd is particularly fun to play for, I think.” Soak, aka Bridie Monds-Watson, is performing at Belfast’s Eastside Arts Festival. “I was studying music in Derry – at the North West Regional College there – and it was really great,” adds Bridie. I think the best songwriters are those who try to understand more about themselves and the world they live in. Soak will play Titanic Distillers Pumphouse as part of the Eastside Arts Festival on July 24.