For this is where Jem Finer, a one-time member of the insurrectionary, Anglo-Irish punk-folk outfit The Pogues, finds himself today. The musician-turned-conceptual artist has been overseeing the ...

MacGowan formed the legendary band with Peter 'Spider' Stacy (tin whistle), and Jem Finer (banjo) in 1982. The band's biggest hit was Fairytale of New York. Although it was kept off the coveted ...

21 years ago, on the stroke of the midnight that shifted us into a new millennium, a musical composition started playing in the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf on the north bank of the Thames.

What makes a piece of music timeless? By Colm McAuliffe What makes a piece of music timeless? As a founding member of the Pogues, Jem Finer was responsible for co-writing a lasting Christmas anthem, ...

Climbing the spiral staircase of London’s only lighthouse, built between in 1864 and 1866, I discover that the Longplayer project, dreamt up by Jem Finer, is not apocalyptic at all but an act of faith ...

The Pogues’ Jem Finer: ‘Shane MacGowan could be maddening but inspiring’ The musician talks about MacGowan’s riotous antics, smoking dope in ‘vast quantities’ and composing a piece of ...

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Explore Jem Finer's Longplayer, an everlasting music piece designed to play for a thousand years, starting from the year 2000. Victor Davis Hanson explains why Judge Boasberg is the ‘most ...

Now, two years since the death of frontman Shane MacGowan, the Pogues‘ original members Spider Stacy, James Fearnley, and Jem Finer reunite for the 40th Anniversary of the band’s second album ...

But for Jem Finer, once the banjo player in The Pogues and co-writer of ‘Fairytale of New York’, that was very much the plan when he came up with ‘Longplayer’. It is a piece of music that ...

Now, the artist behind it, Jem Finer (better known globally as the banjo player in The Pogues, though he thinks of himself more as an artist than a musician, which probably resonates slightly ...