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About diana Stone

Diana Stone is a performing composer and musician playing Piano Violin & Guitar. She currently plays with Orchard and The Sonic Boomers. Previously with Rock/Roots band Elephant Shelf and also the Delta Ladies who mixed roots acoustic music and electronica until the death of Vicky Martin who formed the band which was active for 17 years. Diana composes in a variety of styles from pop to rock to Jazz and and classical music. Diana is also expert in multi-media recording and music production.

Tired Again

This week I am very tired. Again. And its difficult to take an interest in anything much.

Just watching the world turn is exhausting. I had a visit from my sister for a couple days to help sort out a few things for her. We did most of the things on her list. The rest of the week was working on music projects and a rehearsal. I am a bit worried about how tired I am feeling recently. The news is generally bad on several fronts which of course doesn’t help either.

Do not comply




Frightened For So Long

Frightened So Very Long. It’s a new song from me. And that’s how a lot of people are right now for all sorts of reasons. So here’ a stream of consciousness song just for you.

Not the best of days for me, just feeling a bit low again. I have been doing stuff though. I had another bad nights sleep so perhaps its connected. I just remixed a recent song I uploaded and used the ending for an introduction. Works much better like that. As in life occasional a little surgery may be required it seems to make the best of things. They say when you sup with the devil you need a long spoon, but can you always tell?

 “Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.” -Romans 12:16















Nearly June already

Another year turns around. I feel that Midsummer should be when the new year starts. Ok I am obviously quite mad. Things are up and down as ever pretty much. Mostly I am about music as ever. I just tend to do stream of consciousness stuff, not story songs. But loosely everything always relates to personal experience. i do a lot of instrumental music as well though.
I had a terrible nights sleep last night and I am wrecked today. So not so much going on here really. I found I something on the acoustic guitar that sounded quite nice so may turn in to something. Strangely I seem have developed a fairly useful way to use half barres which allows for the other 3 fingers to do much melodic stuff. I just seemed to wake up with it. Obviously my brains been sneaking off to night school subconsciously.

Investigating an old laptop was revealing. I was actually looking for a particular photo but its got lost in translation somewhere I guess. Plus I had forgotten my password so I had to do some jiggery pokery to get in. It was a shock to see how much I had been gigging in the first 10 years with the band up until 2014 and the distances. It was often 4 to 5 times a week and we were doing work for Blues Matters Magazine too. 2014 everything changed as Vicky had the Quad Bypass op so we slowed down a lot 2 to 3 gigs a week at most afterwards. Though we did a lot of duo stuff so we made more money from less gigs. But that was then and this is now.
I am a rusty Greyhound comparatively speaking. My gym is jigging about onstage playing the violin, though I sometimes walk faster than many people jog if required.

A trans friend Facebook thread somebody suggested that we will all be having to flash ID when Reform takes over the country. I replied it’s ok as only about 30% of the country’s population are xenophobic racist transphobes… fair is a concept we teach our children that they often mistakenly believe in adulthood. If life was fair talented people would succeed in life more often.