Virgin Prunes has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 8 September 2014. Virgin Prunes's music has been featured on 19 episodes.

Virgin Prunes was an experimental post-punk band from Dublin, Ireland. The band was formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1986 after the departure of member Gavin Friday.

Known for its outrageous and controversial stage performances led by the bands' theatrical singer/songwriter Friday, they first began playing small shows in Dublin gaining them a cult audience and ridicule from the culturally conservative community. With an audience the band were able to issue their first single in 1980, the independently-produced Twenty Tens (I've Been…