Vashti Bunyan - Legacy

Legacy

• Her voice was heard on Saint Etienne Presents Finisterre (2005), a documentary about London featuring the music of the band Saint Etienne.
• Friend, fellow folk singer and longtime fan Devendra Banhart reportedly writes her name on his arm before some concerts.
• Lush covered her song "I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind". They got to know it from the Circus Days compilation.
• A cover of "Train Song" performed by Ben Gibbard and Feist appeared on Dark Was The Night, a charity compilation benefiting HIV/AIDS awareness and the Red Hot Organization. It was released by 4AD on February 17, 2009.
• "Diamond Day" was featured in the popular UK teen comedy/drama Skins on the third series (2009), episode six entitled "Naomi".
• Her song "Here Before" was covered by the Swedish artist Fever Ray, released as the B-side of the 2009 single "Stranger Than Kindness".
• "Here Before" also featured in the soundtrack for the 2008 BBC production Heist, about a medieval burglary.
• She is name-checked in the Half Man Half Biscuit song "Totnes Bickering Fair", from the 2008 album CSI:Ambleside.
• Vashti's important link to the back-to-the-land counterculture of the 1970s and the insightful expressions of 'nature' in her work have been discussed in an academic paper in 2009 by geographer Keith Halfacree (‘"Glow worms show the path we have to tread": the counterurbanisation of Vashti Bunyan’, Social and Cultural Geography 10: 771-789).
• "Train Song" was selected as the background music for Samsung's 2011 SMART TV commercial.