Gavin Friday remembers the Virgin Prunes From The Independent, October 7, 2004 Virgin Prunes – A Terrible Beauty Re-released Blame it on the Prods and the Plymouth Brethren… Blame itContinue readingTake Me Back To ’72…
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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
TV Appearances
1979, Ireland, RTE, The Late Late Show (broadcast October 1979), studio performance – Theme For Thought 1982, Ireland, RTE, Non Stop Pop – Pagan Lovesong 1982, UK, Channel 4, WhateverContinue readingTV Appearances
Official Mute biography
The uncompromising social climate of the mid-1970s is often cited as the catalyst that sparked a wave of artistic creativity in anyone who felt that their future was bleak. ForContinue readingOfficial Mute biography
Performances
Date City Venue Country Details xx mid 1977 Glasnevin private party Ireland 25-May-78 Dublin Project Arts Centre Ireland 18-Sep-78 Dublin Project Arts Centre Ireland With U2 xx Oct 1978 DublinContinue readingPerformances
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”