Virgin Prunes were an Irish post-punk/gothic rock band formed in 1977 in Dublin. They disbanded in 1986 after the departure of singer Gavin Friday. The...
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Guggi (category Virgin Prunes members)
Irish artist and musician who was once a member of the post-punk band Virgin Prunes. Derek Rowen was born in Dublin in 1959. He is one of 10 children. He...
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A New Form of Beauty (category Virgin Prunes albums)
Beauty Parts 1–4 is a 1983 compilation album by Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes. It collected parts 1 through 4 of the A New Form of Beauty project...
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Dik Evans (category Virgin Prunes members)
British-Irish musician. He is a co-founder and guitarist of the band Virgin Prunes, and a co-founder and early guitarist of the band that later became...
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father. His other middle names make reference to Guggi, a member of the Virgin Prunes, and Quincy Jones, a long-time friend of his father. Bono's naming decision...
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Gavin Friday (category Virgin Prunes members)
painter, best known as a founding member of the post-punk group The Virgin Prunes. Fionan Hanvey was born in Dublin and attended primary and post-primary...
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in post-punk, new wave and gothic rock, including Marc Almond, the Virgin Prunes, Nina Hagen and Sex Gang Children. These disparate forms of the genre...
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...If I Die, I Die (category Virgin Prunes albums)
...If I Die, I Die is the debut studio album by Irish rock band Virgin Prunes. It was released on 4 November 1982 by record label Rough Trade. It was...
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her favorite artists. While in Dublin at age fifteen, Love attended a Virgin Prunes concert, an event she credited as being a pivotal influence: "I had...
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album featured a number of vocalists, including Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, Andy...
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Trinitones True Tides Turn Two Door Cinema Club U2 The Undertones Villagers Virgin Prunes VNV Nation The Walls Waterboys Walking on Cars Waylander We Should Be...
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ownership, the Rusks hired Terry Tolkin who signed the Butthole Surfers and Virgin Prunes to the label, and also produced the Gods Favorite Dog compilation. Soon...
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American metalcore band "Walls of Jericho", a 1982 song by post-punk band Virgin Prunes Walls of Jericho (album), a 1985 album by Helloween "Walls of Jericho"...
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Pink Phenomena (who started as a backing duo for early Soft Cell), the Virgin Prunes and the Rose McDowall side-project Ornamental in the 1980s, and later...
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The Moon Looked Down and Laughed (category Virgin Prunes albums)
band Virgin Prunes. It was released in July 1986 by Baby Records in Europe, and on Touch and Go Records in the U.S. All tracks are written by Virgin Prunes...
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Heresie (EP) (category Virgin Prunes albums)
Hérésie is a double 10" extended play box set by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes. It was released in November 1982 by L'Invitation Au Suicide, which...
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up the tunnel. He worked with producer Colin Newman of Wire on the Virgin Prunes' If I Die I Die (1982) before securing his first major production role...
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The Grey Area is a Mute Records division founded in 1990 to restore and reissue the catalogue of artists who influenced Daniel Miller, head of Mute Records...
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Other early contributors to the scene included UK Decay and Ireland's Virgin Prunes. Gothic rock would not be adopted as "positive identity, a tribal rallying...
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Perspectives and Distortion compilation album, which also featured Virgin Prunes, Lemon Kittens, Thomas Leer, Kevin Coyne and Mark Perry. In November...
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Midgets Two Nice Girls James "Blood" Ulmer Ultramarine Taken by Trees The Virgin Prunes The Veils Venom Vomit Launch Warpaint Weekend Lucinda Williams Victoria...
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Shields, contacted Gavin Friday, the lead vocalist of the post-punk band Virgin Prunes. According to Shields, Conway approached Friday in Finglas, asked him...
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Loves is the debut album from Gavin Friday, following his exit from the Virgin Prunes. It was released in 1989 and is also his first collaboration with Maurice...
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Party, Southern Death Cult, Specimen, Sex Gang Children, UK Decay, Virgin Prunes, Killing Joke, and the Damned. Near the peak of this first generation...
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Baby Turns Blue (category Virgin Prunes songs)
"Baby Turns Blue" is a single by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes, released on 9 October 1982 by Rough Trade Records. The remixed 12" version was...
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original material as U2. Dik joined the Virgin Prunes, a band made up of mutual friends of U2; early on, the Prunes served as U2's default opening act, and...
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post-punk band Virgin Prunes, released in June 1986 on Baby Records in Europe, and on Touch and Go in the U.S. All songs written by the Virgin Prunes UK 7" single...
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Artfuck: A Compilation of Rarities (1980–1983) (category Virgin Prunes albums)
Rarities (1980–1983) is a compilation album by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes. Released on New Rose Records in 1993, it marked the first time the...
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Pagan Lovesong (category Virgin Prunes songs)
by the Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes, released June 1982 by Rough Trade Records. All songs written by the Virgin Prunes UK 7" single (RT 106) "Pagan...
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The Hidden Lie (Live in Paris 6/6/86) (category Virgin Prunes albums)
post-punk band Virgin Prunes. It was issued by Baby Records in May 1987. All tracks are written by Virgin Prunes, except where noted. Virgin Prunes Mary D'Nellon –...
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