Peter "Spider" Stacy (born December 14, 1958, in Eastbourne, England) is a British musician of Irish descent. He is one of the founding members of the Celtic rock band The Pogues. Stacy got his start in music in London's punk scene during the late 1970s as frontman for The Millwall Chainsaws. In 1981, he teamed up with Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer and James Fearnley to form The Pogues and is credited with naming the band. Initially, being one of the less musically-inclined members of the band, his role was confined to backing vocals and hitting a beer tray against his head. Faced with either having to learn an instrument or the likelihood of having to leave the band, Stacy learned to play the tin whistle, which remained his role until the departure of MacGowan left him with lead vocal duties. After the Pogues split, Stacy founded The Vendettas in March 1999, and has been playing gigs in England and France ever since. In May 2001, Stacy performed four gigs in the United States under the name Spider Stacy's Pogue Mahone with the Pogues cover group Boys From County Hell as his band. He toured with The Tossers under the same name in the spring of 2004 and in 2005 played a series of gigs with Filthy Thieving Bastards in California. He has also been returning to his punk roots, with a hardcore-punk side-project called Dogfight. As of 2007, he is again playing with the original line-up of The Pogues. He is featured in the song "(F)lannigan's Ball" on the Dropkick Murphys album The Meanest of Times.
References
- Ann Scanlon, The Pogues: The Lost Decade, Omnibus Press, 1988
