Gavin Friday spent all of last week in a studio in London to oversee the digital restoration and remastering of the Virgin Prunes back catalogue. The CDs will be re-releasedContinue readingWork on re-releases continues
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Guggi: “We were just teenagers with nothing to do”
Sunday Times, September 2002 They didn’t fit into Cedarwood Road, nor into the lower middle-class niche of their youth. Neither of them liked football, the drinking culture that they sawContinue readingGuggi: “We were just teenagers with nothing to do”
Guggi contributes to Amnesty art auction
Guggi is featured in ‘In the time of shaking’, a presentation of contemporary Irish art. The proceeds of the sales of the works exhibited go towards Amnesty International. Amnesty artContinue readingGuggi contributes to Amnesty art auction
Indie singer covers Bau Dachong
Canadian indie singer songwriter Emm Gryner is just finishing an album of Irish songs of which BAU DACHONG is one. The song is recorded and features folk legend Kate McGarrigleContinue readingIndie singer covers Bau Dachong
First Prunes contract up on eBay
A collection consisting of U2’s first demo reel and the Virgin Prunes 1979 development contract has been put on auction on eBay. The item can be yours now for $35,000.00.Continue readingFirst Prunes contract up on eBay
Kevin Shields on the Virgin Prunes
My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, recently back in the picture through his involvement with the Lost in Translation soundtrack, has often mentioned The Virgin Prunes and Gavin Friday in interviews.Continue readingKevin Shields on the Virgin Prunes
Eyewitness: Mobo460
The Virgin Prunes — I will never forget when I saw them. I believe it was the third, I know it was April, and the year was 1983. It wasContinue readingEyewitness: Mobo460
Eyewitness: Derek Heffernan
I was a stand-in guitarist for a European tour in the early 80’s. Guggi was having a break from the band and Dik was in america. I rehearsed the setContinue readingEyewitness: Derek Heffernan
Eyewitness: Andy H
I first saw the Virgin Prunes at the Hammersmith Palais in may 1985 at the all day Psychic TV festival. I was 16 and it was my first London gig.Continue readingEyewitness: Andy H
Eyewitness: Carl Griffiths
My introduction to the Virgin Prunes was a complete fluke. Having purchased tickets to the Futurama festival in Stafford, where I along with 90 per cent of the audience, wereContinue readingEyewitness: Carl Griffiths