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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.

Low-paid Britain: ‘People have had enough. It’s soul destroying’

I now live in a world that I could not have imagined

Low-paid Britain: ‘People have had enough. It’s soul destroying’
Yes, they have jobs … but the five people featured below are typical of millions who have no security, no holiday or sick pay, limited hours, and no dignity at work

August 2014

It’s been quite a varied year so  far, several change’s to plans  and also a friend having heart  surgery,  who is now recovering.  I am still beavering away on various music projects including completing the Delta Ladies new album. Our trip to France for some gigs has been put on hold, so that’s a bit of a disappointment,  though it does give me more time to improve my terrible French, which I am  attempting to learn  on a regular basis daily.

In other news the world continues to turn but  gets worse every day it would seem with no redeeming features really.  I have a morbid fascination with the news though and can’t seem to ignore it.  I do watch BBC, Sky, RT & al jazeera,  and read a lot of on line stuff from several different news papers all of which tends to be contradictory  and I glean from all of it some notion of whats going on,  though how near the truth that is who knows.  “What is truth?” retorted Pilate, there’s a thought?.  Very apt for these times in so many ways.
It makes me very depressed, but I can’t seem to ignore it.