Virgin Prunes - Come To Daddy (Live at the Hacienda, 1983)

Virgin Prunes - Come To Daddy (Live at the Hacienda, 1983)

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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. ‘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.’

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. [Jonathan Wood]

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