12. Vashti BunyanJust Another Diamond Day
She was a name that I’d heard but didn’t really know anything about for years. It might have even been through a song on an advert in the noughties or something like that that I first heard her music. I don’t remember. But I totally got it on the reissue. Then I read an interview or a review and it was telling the story about how she nearly made it in the 60s and this record came out and nobody gave a fuck about it at the time. But copies were selling on eBay for thousands of pounds. I thought, ‘What an interesting story.’ I heard the song ‘Diamond Day’, thought ‘That sounds great,’ and I went out and bought the album and I absolutely loved it. And the compilation that came out of all of her 60s stuff as well. She’s extremely talented.
