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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.

Today has been a bit rough mentally.  Often when I have been away for a little while I tend to get a bit depressed on returning home and very irritable  too.  If I could afford it perhaps I would just keep moving for ever.  The world and I are at odds again without a doubt. As usual no exceptions to the rule. Some days I get the feeling that I can communicate better with people in a language I can hardly speak than than in English. Maybe its paranoia or maybe its something else? I am up far to late writing this rubbish again and trying not to get angry with the sheer heartlessness of much that I see and hear.  Much of what I have feared seems to be coming to pass in front of my eyes as if I had predicted it. Nothing to do with being psychic  just the onset of the obvious, the path being already drawn and the trail mapped out a bit like this  bandes dessinée …

Careers advice

Just remember never surrender, never grow old…. 

Stranger in a strange land

Musings

I have just finished a 3 week mini-tour in France with the Delta Ladies which has gone reasonable well and the weathers been alright too. The UK election results have been very different than I expected and the games not over yet.  I kept reasonably in touch whilst away too. I really must make more effort with the language as I was again woefully inadequate in that respect and really wish I wasn’t.  France was as usual remarkably civilised on the whole.  Possibly there may be a further trip later in the year for some more gigs too. You can find more pics on flickr here https://www.flickr.com/photos/diana_stone/

A lot of driving but not too much bother, though 675k a day on a couple of occasions was a bit of a stretch.

 

On the return trip I heard about Grenfell  tower disaster.  I live in a high rise so a bit close to home in many ways. Sadly its looking like this could have been avoided too.