Irish music magazine State.ie talks to Gavin Friday about the Virgin Prunes. The full article, ‘When art and anarchy collide’ is available online. “The second gig we ever did wasContinue readingBringing art and anarchy to 1980
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The return of the slaughterhouse six
From: Hot Press By Peter Murphy Back in their terrifying heyday, they threw pigs’ heads around on stage, covered themselves in muck, provided Marilyn Manson with a career and wroteContinue readingThe return of the slaughterhouse six
Transcript of 2FM interview
Gavin, Guggi & Dave-id appeared live on RTE’s 2FM with Dan Hegarty on October 5, 2004. A transcript of the first hour of the show is now available in ourContinue readingTranscript of 2FM interview
A Conversation With Dave-id – Part 2
Continued from part I So when the music was changing in that way and then the band when back with Over The Rainbow to releasing more of the experimental stuff,Continue readingA Conversation With Dave-id – Part 2
A Conversation With Dave-id – Part 1
Hello, is that Dave-id? It’s Stuart from Virginprunes.com. [Pause] Sorry, just turning down the sound on the telly. How are you? Yeah, good thanks. What have you been up toContinue readingA Conversation With Dave-id – Part 1
A Conversation with Gavin Friday – Part 3
If you’ve ever wondered about Jennifer and Mary Coote, or puzzled over the difference between a nisam lo and a vibe-akimbo, today your prayers are answered as we get stuckContinue readingA Conversation with Gavin Friday – Part 3
A Conversation with Gavin Friday – Part 2
In this second part of the interview, Gavin explains more about the process of remastering the recordings and takes us through some of the other changes in the format ofContinue readingA Conversation with Gavin Friday – Part 2
A Conversation with Gavin Friday – Part 1
After the work on the re-releases had been completed, Virginprunes.com caught up with Gavin in late August to find out how the project had progressed from initial idea to finalContinue readingA Conversation with Gavin Friday – Part 1
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”