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	Long Now: About: Press
		Finer describes his project as "both music and an integrated part of the landscape and the forces that operate on it and in it".
		Joe Strummer once described Finer as the "Bill Wyman of the Pogues", suggesting that without his steadying influence the outfit would disintegrate, and if it wasn't true of the remorseless machine that is Rolling Stones Inc., it was of the Pogues.
		Finer's next outfit was the Hieronymus Monk Octet, in which "the Middle Ages collide with the 21st century", apparently.
	www.longnow.org /press/articles/ArtJemFiner.php (2407 words)

	Jem Finer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeremy 'Jem' Finer (born July 20, 1955) is a musician and composer who was one of the founding members of The Pogues.
		Finer was "Artist in Residence" at the Astrophysics Sub-department of the University of Oxford between October 2003 and June 2005.
		In July 2005, Finer won the PRS Foundation New Music Award on the basis for his proposal to build a device that will automatically "compose" a song of indeterminate length by harnessing the creative force of the weather.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jem_Finer (428 words)

	Jem Finer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jem became the bass player in a group called The Petals and lived in 32 Burton Street, a house which he sometimes shared with Spider Stacey and Shane MacGowan.
		Shane and Jem began rehersing together in 1981.
		Jem formed a new band in 1996 called The Heironymous Monk Octet, which Darryl Hunt later joined.
	www.pogues.com /PastPogues/JFiner/JFiner.html (264 words)

	Artpoint: Jem Finer
		It will be both a sculptural object in the landscape and a working radio telescope that 'listens' to the universe (tuned to 1420 Mhz, the frequency used by astrophysicists to chart the structure and vastness of the universe).
		Jem has been working closely with scientists at the University and the project takes its title from the artist's understanding that, regardless as to whether the universe is finite or infinite, it has no central point, togther with the notion that all individuals perceive the universe exists around themselves.
		In parallel with The Centre of the Universe, Jem is also in the process of assembling a collection of O-Maps of the universe and of Oxford, drawn by people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines including astrophysicists, school children, art students and local people.
	www.artpointtrust.org.uk /projects/details.asp?projects_id=113 (332 words)

	NPS/VPRO SUPPLEMENT
		Perhaps Finer's most well known work from the mid eighties is his collaboration with Shane MacGowan on the Christmas Single "Fairytale of New York" and the anthem to a wild Spanish summer, "Fiesta".
		The attempt to grow a lawn in the gallery was somewhat compromised by the impounding for quarantine of most of the packets, yet still managed to grow one flower pot full of lush green grass.
		Growing out of a fascination with evolving music and the disciplines of Artificial Life and Complexity, and a frustration with the short term vision prevalent at the end of the twentieth century, Longplayer is both a one thousand year long composition and the machine which is being designed and built to play it.
	www.omroep.nl /nps/radio/supplement/01/0101/jembiography.html (570 words)

	JEM FINER GTR / JEM FINER & ANDREW KÖTTING Visionary Landscapes
		GTR and the collaboration with artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting on Visionary Landscapes evolve in slightly different spheres, yet the musical context is equally as radical and experimental, pushing the boundaries of possible interactions between acoustic instrumentation and electronic distortion to the limit.
		Finer’s collaboration with Andrew Kötting was originally performed as a live soundtrack to a three screen projection of outtakes from Kötting’s offbeat debut documentary road movie Gallivant.
		Jem Finer’s intricately woven acoustic and electronic textures are immensely poetic and actually provide space for the human soul to wonder in between the circuits and processors, transforming a rational and rigorous mathematical universe into a much more vibrant and lively world.
	www.themilkfactory.co.uk /reviews/jfiner_gtrvs.htm (856 words)

	BBC Stoke and Staffordshire - Jem Finer
		You could be forgiven for thinking a little slice of the Deep South had transported itself to Newcastle when Jem Finer accompanied DM Bob on stage at the Full Moon recently.
		What started as a relatively promising set descended into what could kindly be described as drunken karaoke, as one band under three guises seemed to forget that they were actually in a support slot and not the leading role.
		Jem's fame as the key musician in the Pogues has clearly not affected his ego!
	www.bbc.co.uk /stoke/music/2004/04/finer.shtml (549 words)

	PRS Foundation - Jem Finer wins the New Music Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Highly acclaimed musician and artist and founder member of The Pogues, Jem Finer wins the very first New Music Award of £50,000 for the realisation of his Score for A Hole In The Ground, a post-digital work that relies purely on the planet and its weather systems to create music.
		Finer has until September 2006 to create his award-winning work and present it to the public.
		PRS Foundation Trustee and Chief Executive of the Roundhouse, Marcus Davey and broadcaster Verity Sharp presented Jem Finer with this prestigious and ground-breaking award for contemporary British music last night (12 July) in front of an invited audience gathered in the spectacular location of London's Living Room, top floor of City Hall.
	www.prsfoundation.co.uk /newmusicaward/thewinner.php (621 words)

	chapter1
		Jem consequently turned up on James' doorstep, presented him with an accordion, and said, "We thought if anyone would be able to play this, it would be you." Taken aback, James was less than convinced about the band.
		Finer immediately turned from MacGowan to her: there was a pint glass at his foot and he took a well aimed kick.
		Jem decided to act out a Leone scenario and - after cutting two holes in the lining of his duster coat - filled both pockets with sand, Pulled down his straw hat and staggered on stage.
	hometown.aol.com /skovar1/myhomepage/decade/chapter1.html (17572 words)

	Arts \| Jem Finer wins first New Music Award
		The £50,000 prize was open to anyone working in any genre and artistic context, and set a challenge to the UK's creative music community to extend the boundaries of its work.
		Finer was awarded the prize for his Score for a Hole in the Ground.
		Finer was inspired by the water chimes of Kyoto, Japan.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5238174-110427,00.html (326 words)

	The Centre of the Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This newly-commissioned installation by the highly regarded artist Jem Finer, The Centre of the Universe, takes the form of a large-scale spiral tower supporting a radio dish.
		Jem Finer is an artist and a musician working in a diverse range of fields, including music, film, performance and photography.
		Jem is also former guitarist/banjo player with the Pogues.
	www.chem.ox.ac.uk /oxfordtour/centreoftheuniverse (178 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Dripping water wins music award
		Musician Jem Finer, founder member of The Pogues, has won the inaugural New Music Award for his contemporary sound installation based on dripping water.
		Finer was awarded £50,000 to realise his Score for A Hole in The Ground which will see a disused mine shaft transformed into a musical work of art.
		Finer's project was chosen from a shortlist of three by a panel of judges including percussionist Evelyn Glennie, film composer Anne Dudley and Jerry Springer librettist Stewart Lee.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4680339.stm (226 words)

	Jem Finer
		The six hour duration of each record is reconstructed through time lapse into a film the length of the original duration, assembled in real time, projected onto the wall.
		'Slowplayer' is part of three solo exhibitions by British artist Jem Finer, American artists Michael J Schumacher and Keiko Uenishi and is part of 'Six Sites for Sound', a project based around sound art and taking place in various contexts and venues throughout July 2005.
		On Saturday 16th July (12-6pm): Jem Finer will be DJing a 6 hour set with his Slowplayer.
	thisisland.net /jemfiner.html (259 words)

	THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW HOMEPAGE
		Hiding behind the synonym "DM BOB and COUNTRY JEM" is the louisiana native, Garage-master (and producer of the King Khan and BBQ Show!) BOB TOOKE and Londoner JEM FINER, cofounder of the folk-punk legends: THE POGUES.
		This was Bob´s second session and he also appeared in the BBC film "On the Road with John Peel" gaining a bit of immortality along the way.But nearer to immortal is Jem Finer with his "LONGPLAYER" project.
		More recently Jem has been working as artist in residence in the Oxford University Astrophysics department, building sculptural observatories, listening to the sounds of deep space and playing 50´s sci fi rock n roll with his band of astrophysicists, "Big Eyed Beans from Venus".
	www.hazelwood.de /dmbob/index.php (240 words)

	chapter3
		The final mix was 'Planxty Noel Hill', an instrumental from the hand of Jem Finer, and a manic tribute to the pedantic Hill who had taken such exception to the non-purist Pogues on B P Fallen's radio show.
		With the notable exception of DJ and James, there was little enthusiasm for Finer's notion until Andrew telephoned to say that he couldn't make it to the studio and they had no choice but to use a drum machine.
		Jem had based the tune on Almeria's infamous Chochona song, while some of MacGowan's lyrics were a paraphrase of Lorcas's 'Ballad Of The Accursed': 'El veinticino de agosto, abrio sus ojos Jaime Fearnley..
	hometown.aol.com /skovar1/myhomepage/decade/chapter3.html (16930 words)

	Blip arts-science forum - past programme - blip 14
		Talk by Jem Finer 7.30 pm at the Nightingale Theatre, Brighton followed by work in progress by CiCi Blumstein, Chris Hornzee-Jones and Paddy Kernohan at Grand Central, Brighton.
		Jem Finer, artist and musician (co-founder of the Pogues) working in a diverse range of fields, including music, film and performance.
		He places a strong emphasis on collaborative practice and at the time of his presentation was artist in residence at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /r.stow1/blip14.htm (213 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Kent \| Water and horn make forest music
		Jem Finer is interested in "more physical ways of making art"
		Jem Finer, an ex-member of The Pogues, won £50,000 to construct "Score for a Hole in the Ground" when he was given the PRS Foundation's New Music Award.
		Mr Finer has described it as "both music and an integrated part of the landscape and the forces that operate on it and in it".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/kent/5360362.stm (329 words)

	The Pogues biography
		Jem Finer was not a part of this line up.
		The first member they found was Andrew Ranken, a drummer who was already in a Cajun R 'n' B band called "The Operation." Although he was perfect for the job, Andrew was going to be away for the whole summer so they had to find someone else for the time being.
		Jem and Shane set up a show on October 4, 1982 at the Pinder of Wakefield.
	www.bcpl.net /~lpettijo/3rdpage.html (1279 words)

	Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line: Art Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here's a sort-of advertisement from Jem Finer to give you the opportunity to support his Longplayer project (and possibly win a trip to Brisbane).
		Jem is the artist in residence in Oxford's Department of Astrophysics, and "The Centre of the Universe" is a homebrew radio telescope, built of telephone poles, scavenged wood and chicken-wire.
		Jem Finer, aforementioned ringer, former Pogue, and artist-in-residence at the Oxford Astrophysics group, has created Landscope on the shores of Lough Neagh, near Belfast.
	www.andrewjaffe.net /blog/art (4679 words)

	cosmolog: June 2005 Archives
		Diary of Jem Finer's artist in residency in the Astrophysics deptartment of Oxford University, October 2003 - June 2005, with a commentary by
		I've been living in the shed, for three weeks now, from the sub zero nights of early June to the transient mid summer heat wave and back again.
		To see the alignment of the dish, the tower and the shed is rather wonderful, a weird version of the platonic solids.
	cosmolog.org.uk /archives/2005_06.html (657 words)

	Jem Finer on music and creative commons [DJ Alchemi]
		Jem Finer on music and creative commons [DJ Alchemi]
		Jem Finer has an article in today's Guardian giving his perspective on the history and future of copying music outside the normal bounds of copyright control.
		Jem's work gets special mention here on grounds that he is composer of the wonderful Longplayer, and his blog sits on the server as this one (both hosted by Paul Makepeace).
	alchemi.co.uk /archives/mus/jem_finer_on_mu.html (168 words)

	The Parting Glass: Waiting for Herb
		Jem (Finer) and I really hit it off and traded knowledge.
		He was fascinated by the didjeridu and the breathing techniques, etc. I was riveted by the unexplored sound field that is the hurdy-gurdy.
		Here's some thoughts from Jem about this song: "In his book The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin mentions a Sudanese camel-man who 'as he walked, he sang: a song, usually, about a girl from the Wadi Hammamat who was lovely as a green parakeet.' Andrew (Ranken) and I often talked about writing the rest of the song.
	www.poguetry.com /wfh.htm (2138 words)

	PRS Foundation - Location Announced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Whilst Finer has until September to finish the work, he is currently aiming to have dug the initial hole and installed the horn as soon as possible to allow for a period of extensive experimentation with the instrument itself. The finish date will be confirmed in the coming months.
		”It’s fantastic to see the progress Jem is making with ‘Score for a Hole in the Ground’, and now the location is confirmed we look forward to seeing the development of this pioneering project.
		To watch a short film about Jem Finer’s winning proposal please click here.
	www.prsfoundation.co.uk /newmusicaward/location.htm (323 words)

	The Parting Glass: Pogue Mahone
		Pont Mirabeau is a bridge in Paris ("pont" is the French word for "bridge") built between 1894 and 1897.
		This song continues Jem's interest in these structures (also see his "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge").
		The lyrics for this one are based on the poem of the same name by French poet, essayist, and art critic Guillaume Appolinaire (1880-1918) that was published in his collection entitled "Alcools" (1913; english translation in 1964).
	www.poguetry.com /pm.htm (852 words)

	RockNet Review: "Pogue Mahone" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mix the brash directness of punk with the instrumentation of folk and you have The Pogues, a band that their one-time producer Elvis Costello is quoted as saying: "saved folk from the folkies."
		Now reconstructed as a septet, the London-spawned band has had a checkered history since the mid-'80s when Jem Finer, Spider Stacey and Shane MacGowan forged a career out of a junkpile of street performances and other chance opportunities.
		The award for lyric-writing on this release probably should go to Finer for "Oretown," which bears a resemblance to Bruce Springsteen's work in its picture of a grim urban landscape.
	www.rocknet.com /mar96/pogues.html (515 words)

	ARTANGEL PRESENT
		Through an exploration of generative forms of music, rooted in the fields of artificial life and complexity, Jem Finer has developed a system which results in an ever-evolving piece of music.
		In stark contrast to the wharf’s strangely compelling post-industrial landscape, the Millennium Dome is visible across the Thames, where Longplayer echoes over the river through the space of the Dome’s ‘Rest Zone’.
		Longplayer has been developed by Jem Finer and managed by Candida Blaker with a think tank comprising artist Brian Eno, British Council Director of Music John Kieffer, landscape architect Georgina Livingston, Artangel Co-Director Michael Morris, digital sound artist Joel Ryan, architect and writer Paul Shepheard and writer and composer David Toop.
	www.artangel.org.uk /pages/present/present_finer.htm (401 words)

	cosmolog (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the air, it's easy to see that something was once there, in the park, near the pond.
		Deep Impact : unbeknown to the innocent comet, Tempel 1, it is about to have a head on collision with a NASA impactor, parked in its path.
		The Centre of the Universe is being dismantled.
	cosmolog.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 (886 words)

	JR.com: THE POGUES in Music
		The Pogues: Shane MacGowan (vocals); Jem Finer (guitar, banjo); James Fearnley (guitar); Spider Stacy (tin whistle); Cait O'Riordan...
		The Pogues: Shane MacGowan (vocals); Philip Chevron (guitar); Jem Finer (banjo); Terry Woods (mandolin); Spider Stacy (whistle); James...
		The Pogues: Andrew Ranken (vocals, drums); Spider Stacy (vocals); Jem Finer (guitar, banjo, hurdy-gurdy, background vocals); Jamie...
	www.jr.com /xs-the-pogues-in-music--ap!t;nn!731611.html (525 words)

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