Cait O'Riordan

Caitlin " Cait " O'Riordan ( born January 4, 1965 in Nigeria) was from 1983 to 1986 bassist of the Anglo- Irish folk - punk band The Pogues.

Her parents (originally from Ireland and Scotland) left Nigeria in 1967, when there broke out the Biafran war. At the age of 14 years Cait heard the nips title Gabrielle on the radio and decided to buy the record in Rocks Off Records. She met singer Shane MacGowan, who worked as a salesman in the store. In 1982, he asked her if she would join his band Pogue Mahone. They had at that time no bassist, and O'Riordan had a bass guitar. That they could not really play the instrument, MacGowan did not bother further. She played on the first two albums of the band Red Roses for Me and Rum, Sodomy & the Lash ( singing in I'm A Man You Do not Meet Every Day ), and on the soundtrack to Alex Cox's film Sid and Nancy.

The song with the greatest commercial success of the Pogues, Fairytale of New York on the album If I Should Fall from Grace with God was originally intended as a duet between Cait and Shane MacGowan, but was after leaving the band with the voice of Kirsty MacColl recorded.

Cait left the band in 1986 to marry the producer and songwriter Elvis Costello, with whom she fell in love during the production time for rum, Sodomy & the Lash. In 2002 the couple divorced.

O'Riordan played meantime bass in the band The Radiators from Space of ex- Pogues guitarist Philip Chevron. It was 2004 when the Reunionkonzerten in the UK there. To further cooperation between O'Riordan and the Pogues came not because of the re- breaking personal differences.