OIB Present: VASHTI BUNYAN at St Georges Church, Brighton !!!

We're really excited about this one as not only does VASHTI BUNYAN not perform very often but we're hosting the Brighton show in one of our favourite venues of all time St Georges Church.

 

Having influenced many generations since the release of her debut album in 1970 Vashti Bunyan has remained a key symbol of the left-field folk scene (both Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom cite Vashti as a key influence) while simultaneously disappearing off the face of the musical planet for over thirty years.

 

It's with absolute pleasure that we present Vashti Bunyan at St Georges Church on Saturday 10th April 2010…

 

Vashti performing live in her Edinburgh home

 

 

 

Saturday 10th April 2010

St Georges Church, Kemp Town, Brighton, BN2 1ED *Multimap*

£16.00 advance / 7:30pm / BUY TICKETS

 

This show has unallocated seated Under 16s welcome but they must be accompanied by an adult (over 18) and seated on the upper level

 

 

 

VASHTI BUNYAN

Now based in Edinburgh, Vashti's story tells of the thwarted promise of early fame, disenchantment, long-term exile and eventual rediscovery. In the mid-'60s, after quitting art school to concentrate on music, she was discovered by The Rolling Stones' guru, Andrew Loog Oldham, signed to Decca and recorded a single written by Jagger / Richards. Reviews touted her as 'the new Marianne Faithful' or the 'female Bob Dylan' (though Vashti claimed to be neither), yet further singles remained unreleased, leading to a sense of despair and a rejection of the music industry.

 

After living under canvas in the bushes behind Ravensbourne College of Art, she bought a horse and cart and set off in 1968 with her boyfriend for the dream of a creative colony that the singer Donovan was setting up on the Scottish Isle of Skye. It took them nearly two long years to get there, by which time Donovan had left, but the experience formed the songs for 'Just Another Diamond Day', the album recorded by Joe Boyd (and featuring members of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention) in November '69, during a trip back to London. On the album's muted release in 1970, rather than hang around to promote the record, Vashti left the city again to live with the Incredible String Band in the Scottish Borders, and then (with horses, wagons, dogs and children) on to Ireland and back - to obscurity in the Scottish hills.

 

The record slipped out in a tiny pressing and was rapidly forgotten, yet gradually over the years accrued a cultish currency as a lost English classic. In the late '90s, typing her own name into an internet search engine, Vashti became aware of this interest, and after tracking down the masters / rights, 'JADD' was re-released on the Spinney label - almost thirty years after she had "abandoned it and music forever" - to huge critical acclaim (The Observer Music Monthly placed it at 53 in their 'Top 100 British albums'). A host of young, new admirers emerged citing her influence, and Vashti has since recorded with Piano Magic, The Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde, Devendra Banhart, and Animal Collective. In 2005 Vashti signed with cult indie label FatCat and found not only a new home of likeminded people but a new excited sense of creativity as she released the truly beautiful 'Lookaftering' to huge critical success.

 

Since then FatCat have gone on to release the stunning double CD, 'Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind', a collection of Vashti's early singles and demos, dating from the period pre-'Just Another Diamond Day', 1964-67, as well as a reel-to-reel tape she'd accidentally discovered from her first ever recording session. In 2008 FatCat also released a limited edition remastered pressing of the historic 7" single, 'Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind', written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Currently working on a number of new songs for a new studio album (planned to be produced with Andy Cabic of Vetiver) Vasthi Bunyan is heading out on tour to play just six exclusive UK shows in some of the country's most beautiful venues.

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