The Virgins are a American band formed in 2006 in New York City consisting of Donald Cumming (vocals, guitar), Wade Oates (guitar), and Nick Zarin-Ackerman (bass).
They have toured with Jet and opened for Sonic Youth and Patti Smith. They've played at the All Points West Festival in 2008[1]. They performed at the 2008 SXSW festival. They also performed at Lollapalooza, FujiRock, Glastonbury, Leeds, Reading, and T in the Park festivals, among other French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian festivals in the summer of 2009.
In the autumn of 2009 they were invited to perform in Moscow and the song "Rich Girls" was number 68 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.
Music-News.com caught up with The Virgins backstage at Alexandra Palace back on December 6th 2008 before their Pigeon Detectives support slot to find out more. The footage has only just surfaced s have decided to put it live, better late than never!
View the interview above and below uncut in two parts.
