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Artist News
The Virgins to part
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 14 November 2013
Potato/potato, tomato/tomato, NYC scrap-pop types The Virgins are calling the whole thing off, and have duly cancelled their 2014 European tour.
Letting everyone down gently, the band’s lead singer Donald Cummings tells Rolling Stone: “I was a young guy and wanted to be in a band and it was great, but I don’t feel that way anymore. I’m an adult now and I think there’s something really unsettling about a grown man walking around pretending to be a teenager”.
Yes, there certainly is.
“I just want to keep doing new things”, continues Cummings, who’s plotting a solo course now. “I was really proud of the last record and it’s a great feeling to end the band in a place where I’m really happy. I don’t know what the next thing would be except to try something I have never done before”.
Having formed in 2006, The Virgins released their eponymous debut in 2008, following it back in March with ‘Strike Gently’.
