VASHTI BUNYAN - LONDON 2006
April 20, 2023 – 6:36 am
Fifty years ago today, Beatle George told us that All Things Must Pass. Then he told us about Living in the Material World. For 36 years, BigO has been trying to keep the spirit and history of the music alive. Before all things pass, we still need your help to live in this material world. You can help us to do this with a kind donation. Please give what you are happy to give…
HOW TO DONATE
Our costs will always be there. So readers who can donate towards the cost of the site, please open a Skrill account. Readers who wish to contribute to BigO will now have to use Skrill (click here). We are no longer able to use PayPal to receive donations. Register an account at Skrill. To make a payment, use this e-mail address as recipient’s e-mail address in Skrill: mail2[at]bigomagazine.com. Looking forward to hearing from you.
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW
To reduce spamming, the BigO website is going through Cloudflare. What it does is scan your browser to ensure the visitor is not a spam. Do not be alarmed as this usually takes only a few seconds. Email us if you still have difficulty accessing the BigO site; or playing or downloading the tracks. If you know a better way of reducing spam, do let us know.
+ + + + +
PROBLEM DOWNLOADING
If you encounter access or downloading issues, try using Firefox [as the track is playing, you can download it as…]. You can also try Avast Secure Browser.
+ + + + +
VASHTI BUNYAN
London 2006 [no label, 1CD]
Electric Proms. FREEDM Studio, Roundhouse, London, UK; October 26, 2006. First broadcast: BBC 6Music Freakzone, October 29, 2006. Very good audio (web stream).
Thanks to auto_pilot for sharing the show at Dime.
+ + + + +
Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. Beginning her career in the mid-1960s, she released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970. The album sold very few copies and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. She subsequently released two more albums: Lookaftering in 2005, and Heartleap in 2014.
In 2008, Bunyan was labelled “the Godmother of Freak Folk” for her role in inspiring the “new generation of folk experimentalists including Devendra Banhart and Adem”. Her music has also been categorized as folk, psychedelic folk, or new folk. Despite these classifications, she has stated multiple times she is not a folk singer: “[…] I find it quite hard to read myself described as a folk singer, because I’m not.” - wikipedia
+ + + + +
An unusually appreciative audience was at the FreedM studio to see the legendary Vashti Bunyan. Augmented by a quartet of young musicians, she delivered a selection of her fragile lullabies, taken from her two albums.
The line-up of cello, piano, violin (plus occasional flute, thumb piano and concertina) made a lush, melancholic sound that was a perfect frame for Bunyan’s breathy whispers. Songs like “Just Another Diamond Day” and “I’d Like to Walk Around in Your Mind” seemed as fresh and unaffected as they did when they were written almost 40 years ago, though her newer material (from the recent ‘Lookaftering’ album) was received with equal rapture by the audience (one of whom had brought a large bunch of flowers for her heroine). - bbc.co.uk
+ + + + +
Lineage:
BBC iPlayer archive stream > get_iplayer > .ts (aac, 320kbps/48k) > ffmpeg (trimming, rewrap as .m4a)
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (320 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
Please Do Not Hammer The Links. Due to the size of some of the files, please be very patient when downloading the tracks. It could be that the server was very busy. The tracks should still be around. Please try again later.
Kindly email us if you encounter persistent problems downloading the files. Also email us if you have any rarities you’d like to share with our readers.
+ + + + +
Track 01. Hidden 3:25
Track 02. Another Diamond Day 2:24
Track 03. Lately 3:39
Track 04. Here Before 2:54
Track 05. Against The Sky 3:32
Track 06. I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind 3:13
Track 07. Feet Of Clay 3:55
Track 08. Wayward 4:17
28 mins
Click here to order Vashti Bunyan releases.
6 Responses to “VASHTI BUNYAN - LONDON 2006”
I had a bunion once and it hurt like a motherfucker.
By HHH on Apr 20, 2023
That ain’t the real HHH.
What has happened to the real HHH and Derrick?
By Leonard on Apr 20, 2023
Me, Nelson, DD and triple have all been abducted by aliens and taken to a better place.
By Derrick on Apr 20, 2023
Everyone is prejudiced. Including you! Prejudices are useful, because they help you keep things simple. But they can also influence the way we behave towards certain people, and that can be dangerous. Fortunately, there is something you can do. Below, we describe the three steps you can take.
The first and most important step in the fight against everyday prejudices is to recognise them, and to acknowledge that we are all affected by them. Everyone has definite ideas about certain groups of people that never apply to all members of that group. If you are, and remain, aware of this fact, you have already taken the biggest step.
The second step is to try to make sure that your own prejudices do not determine your behaviour. Prejudice should never lead to exclusion or discrimination against others. Also, make sure that you do not spread your own prejudices.
Step three: react! If someone around you hurts other people, insults entire groups, or uses prejudice to define them, react. Oppose them! React in your own circle of friends and acquaintances, respond on social media.
By Derrick on Apr 20, 2023
Cannot d/l anything, firefox says site is not using TLS 1.2
By Jayell on Apr 21, 2023
I wonder if Babe The Blue Ox shits blue turds. Maybe Vashti knows. Mine are usually dark brown, and have left permanent stains on my shorts. If my shit was white, I suppose there would be no stains.
By HHH on Apr 21, 2023