We were, yes. But by the time we made it, he wasn’t there any more. It took us a year and a half to get there. Donovan had set off with his friends in a Land Rover and we'd set off at the same time with our horse and our wagon. When you released Heartleap, I read that there was a note in the press release that mentioned it would be your last album? Then, a few years ago, while surfing the Web, Bunyan says she was amazed to find that the music she'd given up for good was actually alive and well. In fact, Just Another Diamond Day and other early recordings were becoming cult classics to a new generation of musicians, and in 2004, that album was reissued. In 2005, Bunyan released her first batch of new songs in 35 years on a thoughtful, bittersweet album called Lookaftering.

Hypnotic and intimate, new song Across the Water is one of many Bunyan songs about yearning. “Lived on wit, got away with it,” runs one line, summing up the years she spent learning from travellers and overcoming the prejudice of squares. As an unmarried hippy mother, she was threatened with having her children adopted. I’m glad you brought up performing, because was that something you did before releasing your second and third albums? Results for England & Wales Births 1837–2006". Search.findmypast.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014 . Retrieved 12 August 2014.Then, two weeks later, his wife called me to say that the maestro has died. And I just could not believe it. I was so upset because he was an amazing man. He was just a lovely, funny, irreverent, fun person who was so clever and so good at what he did. And I was just devastated. Do you ever think that maybe Just Another Diamond Day was released in the wrong decade? Why else do you think it was a flop? Maybe because there wasn’t enough promotion? Vashti Bunyan: 'When Just Another Diamond Day came out again it was as if there was a whole different climate' ". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. 23 November 2018 . Retrieved 8 December 2019. Rather unkind things had been said about it,” she said of her debut. “That it was just nursery rhymes for children. That it was nothing.”

And then we went through a few things, and I was like, ‘Well, there’s this phrase my family uses for taking care of people or things or animals or whatever: look-aftering.’ And everybody in the room said ‘Yes! That's it!’ So that’s what it became.This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. Because it had been such hard work. Those few months getting it finished had been really intense, and I think to have it finished, it was like falling off a cliff. And I decided I’m never doing this again. David Cawley from Fat Cat Records was there, so he put it in his press release that “Vashti is adamant that this is her last album.” Joe had taken away all the tapes with him to America, and I had no input in the mixing or anything about it. So when I heard the demo that he sent me, I couldn’t connect to it. It felt like somebody else had done it. I knew that they were my songs and I loved some of them. But some of them I didn’t love. It wasn’t what I considered my style at the time. The treatment to some of the songs was very folky. In 2011, Bunyan's cover of the late John Martyn's "Head and Heart" appeared on the tribute album, Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn. [23]