Cáit O’Riordan

“When I was a 17 year old London-Irish kid living in a Kilburn hostel I became a founding member of The Pogues. I was dubbed ‘Rocky O’Riordan’ and spent the next 4 years gigging and recording. The Pogues became successful very fast but my favourite memories are of those small pub and club gigs in the early days, when the chaotic energy of both the band and our audience still owed as much to the Sex Pistols as to The Dubliners.
“I quit the band aged just 21 and over the next 17 years I battled addiction and depression, finally picking up my bass again in 2003. Since then I have played with many legends of the Irish music industry, including the Radiators from Space, The Hothouse Flowers, Mundy, Jerry Fish and Gavin Friday. As well as returning to the music business I went back to school, earning a Master’s degree in Psychological Science in 2013. I am currently enrolled in the PhD programme at UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.”

Cáit  O’Riordan

Cáit ‘Rocky’ O’Riordan returns to the Dublin live scene with a new band for a series of intimate gigs at The Stag’s Head (starting October 12).

They promise to blast out the classics from Red Roses for Me & Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, and “recreating the sweaty, manic fun of a Pogues gig circa 1984…”

Yikes.

The Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin

4pm €10