Biography:

Dubbed "Spider" at age 12, Peter Stacy was originally involved in London's punk scene while helming The Millwall Chainsaws. He would later still help form The Pogues with Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer and James Fearnley, and is credited with naming the band. Initially serving as a vocal foil to MacGowan (best evidenced in songs like "Waxie's Dargle" and "Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go"), Spider also learned to play the tin whistle. After MacGowan's departure from the Pogues years later, he sang for the Pogues through two more albums before they disbanded. He founded the Vendettas in March of 1999, and has been gigging in England and France ever since.

Spider has certainly not limited himself to his exploits with the Vendettas, however. In May of 2001, Spider performed at four gigs in the US under the name "Spider Stacy's Pogue Mahone" (with erstwhile Pogues cover group Boys From The County Hell as his band). The Pogues themselves reunited for a handful of hugely successful gigs in England and Ireland, in December of 2001. And a hardcore-punk side project, Dogfight, is in the works.