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**Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:17 am**

Just a short extract from a story about a bunch of astronomers and artists who travelled out for Turkey to watch the total solar eclipse:
<blockquote>Marcia and Jem shared our house, he’s a musician and sound artist, confident and quiet and despite significant fame as a member of the Pogues, quite happy to do the washing up. On our last day together we caught him filming the squeaky gate outside our house, swinging it back and forth, fast and slow, surprising its rusty hinges into a sonata. Marcia was my cigarette partner, neat and compact with flashing green eyes and tousled black hair. She was uninhibited and eccentric sliding her blanket around the balcony as we smoked like a small tangerine snail trailing its tail. With the husky voice of a thousand whisky nights she could turn any man’s head and was the Grand Dame of the house rising late and going to bed later... </blockquote>
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**Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:49 am**

I know this sounds like so much fan-boy blathering, but Jem is really incredibly interesting.

A CompSci degree.
An aspiring astronomer.
A musician, song writer, and composer.
An avante garde sound artist.
A guinely nice guy.

Jem - if you ever read this - Good on ya and on the Finer clan.

**Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:50 am**

I never cease to be increasingly impressed by the extracurricular activities of all the Pogues, as I learn more about them over the years. I could not agree more, DzM, re: the breadth of interests that is Mr. Finer. And father to a fine vocalist as well. BTW, I just thought, since he was experimenting with the house gate sonically/tonally-wise, maybe he could be an 'avant garden' sound artist? :wink:

And thanks MacRua, yet again for great late-night reading! :wink:

**Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:56 am**

He IS, Fintan!!

**Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:44 am**

DzM wrote:A CompSci degree.
An aspiring astronomer.
A musician, song writer, and composer.
An avante garde sound artist.
A guinely nice guy.

Professor, father and husband, too.

I've never met him but I think he's swell.

**Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:56 am**

-nate- wrote:
DzM wrote:A CompSci degree.
An aspiring astronomer.
A musician, song writer, and composer.
An avante garde sound artist.
A guinely nice guy.

Professor, father and husband, too.

and since we talked about it in the "Brown Eyes" Video thread, he is of course an highly acclaimed actor :wink:

**Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:09 pm**

Is there nothing that man cant do?

**Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:58 pm**

I met Jem once. It was The Wismen's first ever gig, in The Water Rats at Grays Inn Road. This venue, under it's previous name, was also scene of the first ever Pogues gig. Spider, Daryl and Andrew were all in The Wismen at that stage and Jem arrived with Kirsty MacColl to watch the gig. We had a chat and I found him to be a real gentleman and very interesting too. I like his dry sesne of humour. There is a great story in The Lost Decade about when the Pogues were on a US radio show in the 1980's and the interviewer was enjoying the band's comments and said something along the lines of "You Pogues guys are crazy, have you got any more quotes for me?", to which Jem replied, totally deadpan- "Yeah, get the f*ck out of Nicaragua"

**Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:11 pm**

he seems to be a jack of all trades

**Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:18 pm**

Niall wrote:he seems to be a jack of all trades

Apparently he's not too good at carpentry though...

**Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:23 pm**

Michaelo wrote:
Niall wrote:he seems to be a jack of all trades

Apparently he's not too good at carpentry though...

What are his tables like? Stable?

**Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:31 pm**

Fintan wrote:What are his tables like? Stable?

No. Very wonky. Your pint will be on the floor in seconds.

**Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:33 pm**

Michaelo wrote:No. Very wonky. Your pint will be on the floor in seconds.

Thass all right. So will I... :wink:

**Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:34 pm**

Fintan wrote:
Michaelo wrote:No. Very wonky. Your pint will be on the floor in seconds.

Thass all right. So will I...

**Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:34 pm**

Michaelo wrote:
Niall wrote:he seems to be a jack of all trades

Apparently he's not too good at carpentry though...

Thats just because he doesn't have the time, what with everything else he does. I'm sure if he wanted to, he could be a master of carpentry too :wink:

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