Jeremy 'Jem' Finer (born July 20, 1955) is a musician and composer, who was one of the founding members of The Pogues. He was primarily banjoist, but he played a handful of other instruments as well, including mandola, saxophone, hurdy-gurdy, and guitar. Apart from Shane MacGowan (with whom he co-wrote several songs) Finer was the most prolific composer for the band.
Deep inside the forest, on the side of a hill, is a 23ft-deep concrete shaft, constructed at Finer’s behest after he won a commission from the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for a piece called Score for a Hole in the Ground.
Finer, a former member of the folk-punk band the Pogues, was already familiar from his Longplayer project, a 1,000- year piece of music that rearranges itself, via computer software, in Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse, Docklands.
As Finer watched the last of the concrete collars being lowered into the shaft, a tremor made him lose his balance; he remembers swaying uneasily at the edge of the 23ft drop.
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