SERVE THE MAN INFO

Founded in February 2002.

The band consisted of 3 full-time members, Jeremy Howard, Cian Ronayne, Stephen Neary and two part-time Ronan McConnell and Diarmaid McCaffrey. Fiachra Flynn joined the group as ‘Guest Vocalist’ for ‘Hard To Explain’ by “The Strokes” for the gig in An Grianan Theatre in March 2002. Shortly afterwards, Diarmaid left Serve The Man, Ronan became a full-time member and Fiachra was approached to join the band as Lead Singer.

So we practiced every few weeks, learning songs ranging from ‘Rags To Rags’ by “The Eels” and classics like ‘Jolene’ by the great “Dolly Parton” to 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' by "Iggy Pop and The Stooges" and‘Dead Leaves On The Dirty Ground’ by “The White Stripes”. Towards the end of Summer 2002, we began to concentrate on writing some original material. The first song written by Ronan was ‘Cigarette Coffee’, followed by another piece of genius by Ronan ‘The Fallen’. This was followed on by a song, which has been called a “meaningful piss-take” by some people; real name is ‘Why- (Jaysus Why)’, written by Fiachra. The list of originals is growing, and the caliber of the songs is increasing all the time, which can only be good.

Between us, our main influences are: ‘Queen’ (Stephen); ‘U2’ (Fiachra); ‘Iggy Pop’ (Jeremy); ‘Led Zeppelin’ (Cian); and ‘Nirvana’ (Ronan). Bit of an interesting mix, which makes our music interesting! We all have a liking for ‘The White Stripes’ – We had a bit of a band outing on the May Bank Holiday of 2002 when we stayed in Dublin and went to see ‘The White Stripes’, ‘The Dirtbombs’ and ‘The Von Blondies’ all play in Dublin Castle. Highlight was Cian taking the piss out of ‘The Dirtbombs’ drummers when we were talking to them! And Cian walking into the sliding door!

At the end of August 2002, we hired Mr. Enda Glacken as manager, trading under the name of ‘Glacko Industries’. His appointment to the band was made along side the appointment of Eric Bonner, Peter Lee, Damien Mc Clafferty and Simon Houston as crew. Also, in October 2002, Mrs. Aoife O' Donnell of 'Pony PR' was appointed PR Manager. We would like to thank everyone mentioned for their help.

In November 2002, we played at a band competition in Sligo, and judges from the music industry and 2fm gave us this review:

“Great energy and good dynamics in the set, got the crowd rockin’, great bass playing and lead guitar work, a band with a bright future once they stick at it, please don’t waste it guys!!!”