Hi, I’m Jason Serious and this is my band the Flea Market Poets.
I come from Baltimore, USA, the “land of pleasant living”, or so it says on the can of beer, and home to such great freaks as Edgar Allen Poe, Frank Zappa and Jonathan Waters. I was lucky enough to get a good education, but chose ultimately to use it in a less than conventional way. Well, perhaps “chose” is not the word. I was taken in by the power of songs to connect people. I emigrated to Ireland in 2002 and started to write songs, play in bands around Dublin and travel through Europe. I spent the next few years on the hunt for musicians with similar backgrounds and dispositions, musically or otherwise, because good bands tend to be made up of people who come from the same “place”, musically or otherwise, right?
So what do I, an art teacher from Donegal, a rockabilly drummer from Texas, a German metal guitarist, and a guy from Surrey (sorry Hazel I don't know who you are yet) all have in common, musically or otherwise?
Well, here’s where flea markets come in: we are all of us what you might find digging in a flea market bin – random dislocated items, well travelled oddities from all over. Pick out a few things you like, bring them back to your flat, and on a good day: voila – they make the room. And so it goes with the Flea Market Poets… an ongoing experiment of trying to make original popular music out of the sundry material around us, a sometimes dubious alchemy of hugely dissimilar backgrounds, tastes and influences that, on a good day, makes it better.
The result so far has been a melodic brand of rock occasionally crossing over into punk and roots rock. We have been loosely compared to bands like the Strokes or Wilco, but we mostly try to let each song dictate how it wants to sound, be it rock, punk, country or soul. You could say our music caters to an eclectic palate.
An early break for us came in 2007 when I met Pete Briquette. He was the original bass player in the Boomtown Rats and later became an award-winning producer (Bob Geldof, the Frames, Tricky). I sent him a demo, he liked it and agreed to produce our first single - "Captain Nate".
One and a half years after starting the band we released our debut album Dirty Days in April 2009 in Germany and Austria with Rough Trade. We will release the album in Ireland just prior to a concert tour in the first half of October.
...and some kind words from people that have tuned in to the album so far...
"it's actually some pretty damn good music... "
Vic, Puerto Rico
"This CD is an awesome mix of what happens when talented artists push themselves in all directions at once"
Xylla, Seattle
“as a longtime listener, I will admit I have only heard snippets of the greatness that is within this CD. I will buy it. you should buy it. Obama should buy it!!
Yes of course!:) Have u been listening to Biffy Clyro? their new album is brilliant! Still love Florence and the Machine but you've probably heard that one. Have u heard JP Jones and Dave Grohl's band Them Crooked Vultures?class. And a random new Irish band Codes debut album "Trees Dream in Algebra" is good. Oh and Mumford and Sons!
That should get you started anyway ;) How's the music coming along?x
many thanks for friendship keep rocking happy new year love and peace Alex from munich www.myspace.com/myrockworldcom www.myspace.com/drownntears www.myspace.com/myjazzworld
Das ist aber Schade, Plauen is quite near to my town. But definitely we'll see you somewhere in the future! :-) How was playing in Ireland? Hope you had a great time there! Here's everything OK, I'm fine. :-)
Hello Jason and all the poets!,I hope the road is treating ye all kindly. Thanks for the request and best wishes with the Irish tour, slán abhaile, Ger.
Not sure if i should write in german or english...however, really nice gig yesterday, I liked the atmosphere a lot. Unique! So hope to see you again, more probably in Germany...region Leipzig...?! I'll check the dates when I'm back in June! Thank you for the special concert, Marie
Hey there, thanks so much for your comment. I'm actually just working on a review of your album here now. I absolutely love it, great job :) 100% confused is one of my favourite.. I know that feeling!
Hopefully I'll be at the Dolan's gig. Best of luck with the tour & release,
