If the Steveston Salmon Festival’s craft fair lacks excitement or the main stage acts aren’t loud and rocky enough for you, the Youth Rock Fest might be more your taste.

On July 1, music, a barbecue, skateboarding and room for dancing will be the main features of the Youth Rock Fest located at Steveston Community Centre’s Lacrosse Box. Four bands will be featured at the July 1 celebrations. They will be playing throughout the day with a break at 12:45 for the Skate Competion.

All of the artists were handpicked by the SWAT team, Steveston With Active Teens.

The first band, Hello, Sir, will be playing the stage located at Steveston Community Centre’s Lacrosse Box at 11 a.m.

Canada Day’s Youth Rock Fest Lineup

Band: Hello, Sir!

Where they call home: Richmond

Lead vocalist and manager: Camille Wong

How long they’ve been playing: About four months

Genre: “Mainly an old rock band. Since we’ve not been performing for that long we haven’t had time to write our own songs. We play a lot of covers.”

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Inspiration: The Beatles and Tokyo Incidents

Number of band members: Five including Wong, but only four will be playing on July 1.

Other venues played: The youth kick-off at Cambie Secondary and UBC for a Japanese cultural event.

What they’re looking forward to about playing Canada Day: “Entertaining the crowd and getting to know people and gaining experience.”

Time: 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Band: The Chase

Where they call home: “We’re from Steveston!”

How long they’ve been playing: Formally began about 2 and half years ago.

Genre: “Plain and simple rock ‘n’ roll.”

Inspiration: “Overall we think it’s just rock music. I think it’s up to the listener to decide what we sound like.”

Number of band members: Five—Jeremy and Jameson Hankin, Mischa Lowenstein, Jeek McIntyre, and Kyle Owens.

Other venues played: Probably around 20.

What they’re most looking forward to about playing Canada day? “Well it’s Canada Day, that’s Steveston’s second Christmas!!

Website: www.wearthechase.ca

Time: noon to 12:45 p.m.

Name: BIKE

Where they call home: Vancouver

Frontman: Mike Durrant

How long they’ve been playing: 3 and a half years.

Genre: “Fun and freedom...haha, umm fun, party music?”

Inspiration: “All our songs are kind of different; we don’t have one sort of style.”

Number of band members: Eight—three horn players, two percussionists, keyboards, bass, guitar.

Other venues played: They just played at Richard’s On Richards. They’ve played other Vancouver venues, but never Richmond.

What they’re looking forward to about playing Canada Day: “Some sunshine. We’re excited to see what the skate contest is all about; we’re playing right afterwards.”

Website: www.myspace.com/mybike

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Name: Lockout

Where they call home: Richmond

Frontman: David Behrmann, “But it’s impossible to say that I’m the leader. A band is a team and we all do our part.”

How long they’ve been playing: They’ve been together for three years, but have been doing gigs an networking for the past year and a half.

Genre: A mix of soft rock, alternative and punk rock.

Inspiration: The Offspring, Sonata Arctica, Mutemath, Nirvana, The Strokes, Silversun Pickups and The Foo Fighters.

Number of band members: Five: David Behrmann, David Govett, Kyle Stelzer, Keefer Pelech and Drew Pellegrin.

Other venues played: West Richmond Community Centre, Cambie Community Centre, the Jewish Community Centre, South Arm Community Centre, Station Square pub, Hugh Boyd Secondary and a few private shows.

What they’re looking forward to about playing Canada Day:

“We’ve all been at rock fests in the past and we can’t wait to play at this one. It should be a blast.”

Website: www.myspace.com/lockoutrichmond

Time: 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

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