Caitlin O'Riordan was born on 4 January 1965 and is a British musician.
18 Facts About Cait O'Riordan
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Cait O'Riordan played bass guitar for the Pogues from 1983 to 1986.
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Cait O'Riordan later played with Elvis Costello as well as Bush Tetras and several other projects.
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Cait O'Riordan uses the name Rocky O'Riordan on social media and for her Sirius-XM radio show, The Rocky O'Riordan Show.
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Caitlin O'Riordan was born in Nigeria to Irish and Scottish parents, who moved to London when the Nigerian Civil War broke out in 1967.
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Cait O'Riordan rarely saw her father who was away on business; her mother raised the four children.
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Cait O'Riordan heard the Nips' song "Gabrielle" on the radio in 1979, and subsequently met Nips singer and future Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, who was working at Rocks Off Records where she went to purchase the record.
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Cait O'Riordan left her home in 1981 at age 16 as soon as it was possible, and stayed in various Soho hostels.
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Cait O'Riordan owned a bass but had not played it until the invitation.
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Cait O'Riordan acted in the 1987 Alex Cox film, Straight to Hell, as the singing dancehall girl Slim McMahon, and in the 1988 Frank Deasy film, The Courier.
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Cait O'Riordan left the Radiators and was replaced in February 2006 by Jesse Booth, and went on to form a band of divorcees named PreNup with Hothouse Flowers guitarist Fiachna O Braonain.
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In 2012, Cait O'Riordan completed a BA in Psychology, followed by an MPsychSc 2013 at UCD.
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In 2018, Cait O'Riordan joined Pogues tin whistle player Spider Stacy to perform Pogues songs accompanied by Cajun music band Lost Bayou Ramblers under the name Poguetry.
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Since 2020, Cait O'Riordan has hosted a weekly radio show, "The Rocky Cait O'Riordan Show", on U2-X Radio, an artist-branded channel which is part of SiriusXM.
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On 5 April 2023, it was announced that Cait O'Riordan had joined the Bush Tetras on bass.
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Cait O'Riordan said she has suffered from severe depression all her life.
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Cait O'Riordan was formally diagnosed in 2002, and she initiated private clinical treatment.
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Cait O'Riordan said in 2008 that she was an alcoholic, but had taken her last drink in February 2007.