The Virgin Prunes

The Birthday Party/The Virgin Prunes: Ace Cinema, Brixton

Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 4 December 1982

WITH CHANNEL 4's cameras peering over their shoulders, both sets of Wild Men of Pop felt a little inhibited. Mindful of television's cold, reducing stare, ...

U2 et al: Coming up for Eire

Report by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 September 1979

DAVE McCULLOUGH GOES STRICTLY DUBLIN-WISE AND UNEARTHS A BUNCH OF EXCITING NEW SOUTHERN IRISH ACTS ...

U2, Berlin, Virgin Prunes: Acklam Hall, London

Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 29 March 1980

ITS ENERGY spent, its citizens content to lapse into style, to consume and give tacit consent, its insatiable media meanwhile ever needing fresh supplies, London ...

Virgin Prunes: The Venue, London

Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 23 January 1982

THE VIRGIN Prunes are Irish. This has got nothing whatsoever to do with the comically inept state of their performance art, but it might explain ...

Various Artists: Gothic Rock

Review by Mat Snow, Q, July 1992

Was goth really any more than wearing silly clothes and humming funereal dirges? ...