Virgin Prunes Talk: Episode One - A New Form of Beauty
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Virgin Prunes Talk: Episode One - Gavin Friday in conversation with Eoin Devereux. They discuss The Virgin Prunes' seven part multi-media project 'A New Form of Beauty'
The Virgin Prunes were masters of the uncanny, juxtaposing nightmares with lullabies, beauty with cruelty, combining gentle vocals and the spoken word with anguished wailing from purgatory itself. This first album powerfully laid out this terrain. Its themes ranged from mournful tales of unrequited love, frustrated sexuality, morbid eroticism and wasted youth, to yearnings for distant dreamlands which were juxtaposed with macabre visions of dystopian societies, overpowered by dark forces and where demons run amok. Guggi’s art work for A New Form of Beauty, which intimates a heartless transaction within a domestic setting, is in keeping with this sensibility.
The album begins with ‘Sandpaper Lullabye’, a la-la-la love song of child-like innocence that leaves a bitter aftertaste. What follows is a series of powerful hymns to desperation and revolt. ‘Come to Daddy’, in which Gavin and Guggi sing in dialogue while improvising, is a relentless soul scream, which ends with the ironic lines ‘Oh we are, we are so young. Oh, we have so much to look forward to.’ This is soon followed by one of the band’s most celebrated songs, the elegiac ‘Sweethome Under White Clouds’, and later on by ‘Beast’, one of their most brutal and notorious.
The Virgin Prunes’ A New Form of Beauty (1981) was recorded and produced by the band itself. It includes the tracks of the first four parts of what was a five-part, mixed-format project with Rough Trade Records. Part 1 was a 7” record, Part 2 was a 10”, Part 3 was a 12”: these were recorded between July and October 1981. Part 4 was ‘Din Glorious’, released as an audio cassette, was a recording of extracts of a live event on 8th November 1981 at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. Part 5 was to be a film of ‘Performance, Exhibition, Event’ staged at the Douglas Hyde Gallery on 7th and 8th November 1981 (Jon Wood)
Recorded by Gavin Friday & Eoin Devereux, May 25th 2022
Produced & Edited by Jack Howson
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Parts 6 and 7 are definitely something loads of Virgin Prunes fans would love to see get released. As for 'Come To Daddy' - been my favourite song for almost 40 years now and I suspect I'll never hear anything better.
My favorite band ever. I wish you lot would play live once more for the art fiends of this world.
Legendary and so inspirational. Love this interview and can't wait for more, hopefully. Virgin Prunes woke me up as a young teenager and i'll forever be thankful.
Thank you, Jon. More coming, for sure!
A New Form Of Beauty was the first Virgin Prunes music I ever heard as a 15 year old and it completely changed my way of thinking about music. I loved it and still love it now. So unique.
To go where no one had gone before !
Along with the Starship Enterprise , I think that the Virgin Prunes achieved it !
Les Prunes m’ont fait comprendre que je n’étais pas seul. Sans vous je n’aurais pas survécu à l’adolescence.
El mundo necesita mas videos inéditos de virgin prunes 🖤1:00 ojala esas grabaciones salgan a la luz un dia 🖤
Man I am in absolute seventh heaven listening to these interviews ~ I've been a huge Virgin Prunes fan here in New York since 1982 ~ I'm learning now what I always wanted to know for 40 years, thank you so much Gavin, Dik, Guggi, Mary, Strongman, Dave-id, you've made a huge impact on my life
I love the Virgin Prunes so, so much
Yes 👍
The music of the Virgin Prunes inspired me in ways no other group ever could.
Very much enjoyed hearing their stories!
Brilliant ☄️ Can't wait for the other storytellers 💜
Brutal Genius, they shaped my life 35yrs ago.
This is still what i would consider the magnifying glass stuff, at the same time I always felt that The Virgin Prunes created a myth of their own. I would call it artistic theatre. The non conformist sacred anti mass written with sweat blood savage words. Gavin has such a great speaking voice. The prunes were pure raw acrobats in a crazy circus.
Thank you! Brilliant interview :)
I love the virgin prunes
This is fucking brilliant. What a thrill! I’ll be hanging on every episode ❤️
Loved this interview. Can't wait to hear more! 🖤
just amazing, i could listen to Gavin talking all day...
I always wondered how you got the incredibly weird effects? They are otherworldly. I'd love to know more about that. And thank you Gavin. I wrote you a letter back in the 80s...and you wrote back. Blew my mind. I still have the letter.
Great interview, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
*_VIRGIN PRUNES RULE..._*
Part 6 the movie exists. I was at the presentation of the new Mute cd's and there they showed the film. So Virgin prunes the cat is out of the bag, just show it to the rest of us. Nice anecdote ie that when they had the presentation of the redone cd's in Brussels, they had a band called Dez Mona perform Sweethome and at the end of the song Gavin and Guggi joined in to sing the song one last time.
Oh my god. Thank you
Why is it important to find the song Brain Damage. Even my emails go unanswered.
Fucking cool