Theme for Thought - Virgin Prunes, 1979
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2021
- Virgin Prunes perform 'Theme for Thought' on The Late Late Show.
Following a panel discussion on the visit of Pope John Paul ll to Ireland, Gay Byrne introduces the post-punk band Virgin Prunes.
They are unique and different, there is no other group in the business doing what they’re doing at the moment, what exactly they’re doing I’m not too sure mind you, but there’s nobody else doing it and you have to make up your own mind.
Virgin Prunes perform ‘Theme for Thought’, the lyrics of which include a quote from ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ by Oscar Wilde.
The band consists of vocalists Gavin Friday (Fionan Harvey) and Guggi (Derek Rowen), bassist Strongman (Trevor Rowan) guitarist Dik (Dick Evans) and drummer Pod (Anthony Murphy). Two women smoking cigarettes and drinking wine are seated at a table beside the band.
Following the performance, the sixth member of Virigin Prunes, Dave-iD Busaras (David Scott Watson) presents Gay Byrne with a box of chocolates.
Before distributing bars of chocolate to members of the audience he says,
We’ll be playing soon for people to hear us and we hoped you enjoyed yourself.
The members of Virgin Prunes belong to an imaginary place called ‘Lypton Village’. The residents are a collection of friends who all hold a different view of life. Citizens of Lypton Village are christened with new names. Other inhabitants of Lypton Village include U2 members Bono (Paul Hewson) and the Edge (Dave Evans).
‘Theme For Thought’ appears on the Virgin Prunes 1982 album ‘...If I Die, I Die’.
This episode of ‘The Late Late Show’ was broadcast on 6 October 1979. 
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So creative and challenging for Ireland in those days !
Virgin Prunes were just so different than anything else at that time , and even now !
Magnificent. I don’t think ‘70’s Ireland was quite ready for post-punk Weimar cabaret, however.
the cut to the audience at the end is the best bit.
If fairness this is just weird ..
It's also awful.
@@sratus How did you end up here, if you're not a fan, out of curiosity?
@@TheLokiBiz Curiosity.
Damn. Heard of these band for 35 years and just got around to hearing their records. I shouldn’t have slept on this stuff .
Dave-id Busaras at the end is magnificent!
The "Simpleton" at the end handing out presents? Icing on the cake! Those girls on the front row he gave the presents to (wonder what they were?) looked like they thought he was for real.
I grew up in mid America and loved them immediately. My best friend had their records, I might not had ever heard of them without. They also scared me, lol
2023 and that was class
Fantastic, this seems to be the earliest film in existence of these guys, thanks!
True artists!
Simply great and very serious in 1979
Grand fan des Virgin prunes depuis très très longtemps 1984, je ne connaissais pas cette vidéo. Merci beaucoup? Dave-id à la fin est admirable. Ouaouhhh
Thanks for this gem! Love this band.
SUPERB!!!
This is really more theater than music
I like the table with the tablecloth and the wine. It all definitely adds an air of refined sophistication, class and a sublime je ne sais pas…
Excellent, thanks for posting!!
Virgin Prunes, the band U2 could have been.
Interesting take; and I'll take-it.
Who needs the Beatles
Just, Wow!
Thank you I've loved them since the time but never seen this x
Super cool when Bono gave a shout out to Gavin at the j. Tree concert at Californias rose bowl. I was there 2 nights in a row. 8 hours in line 523rd in light.
That was fantastic thank you😊🦇
Thanks for this post! Never knew they were like this ! Love them more now
Best Live band I saw and I saw so many..speaks to my soul..
oml i love them so much
"… Why should I be like you?
Nothing is ever the way you say it is,
Nothing is ever the way you want it.
So don't talk to me,
Don't look at me,
But stay with me." #TimelessPrunes
I consider them to be in the close vicinity of The Sex Gang Children… Can’t think of anyone else similarly brutal. Such a special blend of the creepier side of glam and the less sensitive aspects of “goth”… Fucking outstanding.
brilliant
Reminds me of (and predates) Sex Gang Children (by three years). Brilliant stuff..
Je connais le groupe depuis 1986.
Je ne savais pas qu'ils avaient créé le groupe vers la fin des 70's.
En tout cas, magnifique.
カッコいいね！
Steve Hanley's book brought me here.
fucking vicious
Bono's old buddies!
🖤
Only just heard of them seconds ago...... basically from a t-shirt on another music video. No idea whats happening here.
But i digs it.
This is on Irish national TV on a very long running Friday night chat show mostly watched by older people.. they had a thing for occasionally booking very edgy musical acts that were very incongruous with the majority audience
👌💕
Perfect embodiment of teenage angst.
Far better version than the one recorded for "if i die i die"
Proper fucking post-punk (g*th) with hypnotic basslines.
the intro resembles Joy Division´s song The Eternal.
A courageous expressive performance of 1979 in conservative catholic Ireland. You gotta hand it to them! Basically they didn't give a fuck. We need more of that shit today.
Thanld for that bit of perspective!! Hi from L.A.
იმენა სიგიჟე
Stay with me
😈😈😈😈😈🤟🤟
They look so normal here lol
Puts me in mind of Henry Rollins Liar.
Mi si drizzano i peli
Jazz club
Nice
What was he giving out???? I must know!!
Chocolate. (It’s in the notes under the video.)
How very far away do you have to be to realise the disgusting truth is right in front of you, my distant friends?
Pure Birthday Party
Is that Poly Styrene?
No
The Virgin Prunes had absolutely nothing to do, musicaly, lyrically and aesthetically (in the broader sense of the term), with the goth scene, bands like Sex Gang Children, etc. . The only pale ressemblance is that of the imagery of the band. The Virgin Prunes were a post-punk experimental band. That's exactly why a song of this band was included in the quite cultish avant-garde music compilation "Perspectives And Distortion" in 1981.
ceàd mìle fàilte
Like Joy Division, but without the joy!
Ohh my god, your comment has me cracking up….🤣🤣🤣
If Dr Frankenstein had made music, it would sound like this
That's the Edges brother Dick on guitar.
So just Joy Divsion
Plenty of humour in their music !
it's probably '81 or '82, this guy have more gray hair then the TV appearance of U2 on the same late show.. but my think; Dik Evans is a better guitarist than his little brother (The Edge). No matter what.
Pretentious twaddle Performance art. 8/10 on the Gothometer
Hors catégorie.
Gaybo ya dry oul shite
Bambi Thug … Cornflake Goth compared to the Prunes
I wonder do they look back at this now and cringe
Good heavens, no. Gavin Friday is still out there doing his thing and I’m sure the rest of them are immensely proud that for once an Irish group was doing something that was a good six-months-or-so ahead of what was happening in London. I love that this has very little to do with either blues-based rock or traditional Irish music, and that they’ve already moved well away from punk. This was a year before Nick Cave moved from Australia to England and I’m sure he must have seen the Prunes; you can certainly hear The Birthday Party in this.
Why would they cringe at this? Super original, and honest. Stick to FM104.
@@TheAndy25026 cringing more at the fact my phone gets a notification at 1am on a Saturday night from some goon trolling videos from 2 months ago
@@thehairysnot8069 haha do you believe your comments exist in a vacuum. Go back to looking at your Ed Sheeran croke park gig photos pal.
@@TheAndy25026 you're definitely the type that supports Katie Taylor
In the same period in which they returned to giving the word art the noble meaning it deserves, four of their fellow citizens sang rhetorical anti-war lyrics thinking only of how to make a lot of money.