We study rectangular Vandermonde matrices V with N+1 rows and s irregularly spaced nodes on the unit circle, in cases where some of are “clustered” together – elements inside each cluster being separated by at most h?1N, clusters from other least ??1N. show that any pair column subspaces corresponding to two different nearly orthogonal: minimal principal angle between them is most?2?c1N??c2Nh, ...