Jeremy Max Finer was born on 25 July 1955 and is an English musician, artist and composer.
15 Facts About Jem Finer
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Jem Finer was one of the founding members of the Pogues.
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Jem Finer was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, the son of political scientist Samuel Jem Finer.
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Jem Finer took a joint degree in computing and sociology at Keele University.
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Jem Finer settled in London, where he met Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, and James Fearnley, with whom he founded the Pogues.
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Jem Finer has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, experimental and popular music and installation.
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Apart from MacGowan, Jem Finer was the most prolific composer for the band.
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Jem Finer appeared on all the band's albums until their breakup in 1996; he was one of only three original members.
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On 1 January 2000, the Jem Finer-composed Longplayer piece of music was started; this is designed to last 1000 years without ever repeating itself, and as currently implemented exists in both computer-generated and live versions.
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Jem Finer was Artist in Residence at the Astrophysics sub-department of the University of Oxford between October 2003 and June 2005, making a number of works including two sculptural observatories, Landscope and The Centre of the Universe.
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Jem Finer and Hamburg-based swamp pop legend DM Bob have recorded and performed together since 2005, releasing their album Bum Steer in August of that year and co-producing the debut album by the experimental pop band Marseille Figs.
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Jem Finer has written articles on copyright and the Creative Commons License.
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In July 2005, Jem Finer won the PRS Foundation New Music Award on the basis of his proposal to build a device that will automatically "compose" a song of indeterminate length by harnessing the creative force of the weather.
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In March 2012, Jem Finer launched Mobile Sinfonia, a global composition for ringtones, after developing it during a year spent as a non-resident artist at the University of Bath.
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Jem Finer is working on a number of new projects, continuing his interest in long-term sustainability and the reconfiguring of older technologies.