Vashti Bunyan

In 1968 Vashti Bunyan set off from London to the Isle of Skye by the rather quaint means of a horse and cart, a journey that has since taken on almost semi-mythical status.

There is something of the chorister about Vashti Bunyan’s voice – pure sweet and almost prelapsarian.

When she released her debut album Just Another Diamond Day in 1970 the critical indifference and hostility that greeted it so dismayed her that she promptly removed herself from the music world for the next 35 years.

Turning up at the Union Chapel with mixed expectations about the evening ahead, I am completely blown away by the venue which, as the name suggest, is a house of god but what I didn’t know is that it is still an active place of worship. It is this I imagine which gives the building as a venue such a special a

Roundhouse London, London on January 13, 2007

Imagery of threads and trails recurred in her lyrics, sung in a whispery high voice and set to gossamer-light melodies

It must feel a million miles from the late 1960s, when she and her boyfriend set off by horse-and-cart to roam the country under open skies.