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About diana Stone

Diana is a performing composer and muscian playing Piano Violin & Guitar. She currently plays with the Rock/Roots band Elephant Shelf and also the Delta Ladies who mix roots acoustic music and electronica. She 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.

This Time Next Year I wonder If

Times a funny thing, its gone in a flash and you start to wonder what’s left in the tank. Do you try and eek it out and glide home or do you just put you try and get as far as you can?
Do you feel lucky punk?

What’s is with people born in the 70s and 80s banging on about how wonderful things were in 50’s and early 60’s. It really gets on my nerves at times. I have just seen one of those “share this” Facebook posts romanticising a mythical time that frankly was never like that at all, unless perhaps you were very well to do. I was born in the late 50’s. The first ten years of my life were spent living with no bathroom and outside toilet no real heating in an overcrowded dwelling. Yes I love music 🎶 from those times but everything else was not that great at all.
Bomb sites, chemical fogs, outside bogs, dogshit everywhere (some things don’t change) Rows of terraces waiting for demolition. It wasn’t all rose tinted. it was a huge contrast to my grandparents place out in suburbia which was a 1930s semidetached with a garden and to me it seemed like a palace… And TB and rickets and malnutrition for some still even then.
These things do shape who you are and who you become.

It’s not my circus or monkeys though so onto the next thing I guess. I am stil finding old recordings in the archive from my old bands. It is bitter sweet though as three of them have passed.
This though is one of mine




This Seems Appropriate

Yes, it’s the mood of the day, the center cannot hold. Yates and all that. The sudden evening silence breaks in my room. It’s not a good day so far as I write this. A lot of stuffs been going wrong and I am not coping well at all. I watched some video of an english guy (about 50 years old) that lives in rural Russia on YouTube. The sanctions have no effect on lifestyle except minor irritations with getting a few spare parts, the shop and shopping malls are all well stocked. Unless you are called up or a family member is, its a case of “War? , what war…”
So I think we can say that that one will run and run.

Today was an annoying day with computer problems as well… Ho Hum. One problem is sorted and the other hopefully will be at some point tomorrow or Thursday if the backup loads OK.

So not a creative day at all. My spirits a bit lost at present.