My first thought after playing my first concert in over 30 years was: Right! More!
Vashti Bunyan
Thursday 26 October 2006
FREEDM Studio, Roundhouse, London
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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).
Your thoughts on Vashti Bunyan
Deepinder Cheema
It was great to see Vashti looking relaxed, and fully colour coordinated with the electric pink of the Proms, at ease with her unexpectedly reprised musical career. Her ability to bring a simplicity and an elegant economy to her material fully justifies the recognition of a generation of fans that were not born when she left the musical stage so many years ago. For me her earliest songs especially 'Winter is blue' isolated from the long ago Film soundtrack 'Tonite lets make love in London' by Peter Whitehead, the Rolling Stones film maker was the Highlight of the evening..and seemed strange and new without the film associations that I have been used to!