| FW_2 Posted on 8/8 12:52 | |
| Vashti Bunyan | |
Tell me what you know, you fine, educated people. I stumbled across a documentary called Folk Britannia the other night and caught a bit about Vashti Bunyan, recognised 'Diamond Day' as a lovely track I'd previously heard on some advert and wondered if she has any fans out there. BoroMutt? AtomicLoonybin? Fischer? | |
| maninashed Posted on 8/8 13:24 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
i got the album 'just another diamond day' a couple of months ago and its superb. if you like nick drake, bert jansch, joan baez etc etc you'll love it. i wouldnt have expected anyone on here to have heard of her.... ill send you the album or a few choice tracks over if you want. | |
| FW_2 Posted on 8/8 13:47 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
I love Nick Drake. Thanks for the offer of sending tracks but I'm a complete luddite (I'm only just about to buy myself an MP3 player, that's how in touch with modern technology I am  ) - I'll certainly check old Vashti out though.
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| Nedkat Posted on 8/8 14:02 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
Wasn't she a bit of a folk artist back in the 60's ..? | |
| FW_2 Posted on 8/8 14:02 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
She was indeed, Ned. Do you remember her? 
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| Rumpole_Chutes Posted on 8/8 14:25 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
I started to listen to her after hearing a really good collaboration she did with "Animal Collective". You might like to check out her second album "Lookaftering" only released last year (35 years after Diamond days). | |
| Link: Lookaftering | |
| Nedkat Posted on 8/8 19:05 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
Personally, I can't say I do remember her, I was an extremely skinny 8 year old when England won the World Cup. Yet, I can say two of my older friends seem to know her. Mind you, those two old gets seem to know everything about music from 1950 onwards. I fell asleep in the pub once, when the pair of 'em got started ... | |
| DrBuck Posted on 8/8 20:16 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
Vashti made one album in the late sixties and then run off to a remote Scottish commune, maybe to be with Donovan. She disappeared from public eye until making her second album last year...Ithink. | |
| BoroMutt Posted on 8/8 20:22 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
Not really grabbed me (but then I'm no fan of Nick Drake neither), I remember reading of her "new" album in Mojo but beyond that I know nowt. This is her entry on Wiki ¬ | |
| Link: Wiki Waki | |
| uncle_harry Posted on 8/8 21:24 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
Vashti Bunyan has recently been rediscovered , Stuart Maconie and Danny Baker and Verity Sharp have been playing here a lot, She has a very gentle beathy sort of sound not to every one's taste (its a bit listen with mother-y)but it does nice things to my atoms. A new and entirely fine album is 'Lookaftering' with some fabulous tracks 'lately' is the outstanding track and if you can down load stuff start with that- I'll give you the money back if you hate it. Diamond Day is an earlier record but in a similar vein and the advert execs are using here stuff quite a bit at the moment i like it I do | |
| FW_2 Posted on 9/8 7:58 | |
| re: Vashti Bunyan | |
Cheers all, knew I could rely on the old farts of FMTTM to come up trumps . Still no sign of ALB though...Mr Fischer did email me yesterday afternoon and has promised to 'sort me out'. I'm all a-quiver at the prospect. | |
