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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.

Some times the end is just the end

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Sometimes it’s really hard not to feel incredibly jaundiced about everything.  The harder you try to get toward your objective the further away it gets. There are some hopeful signs on the horizon its true.  People can be rather disappointing when they behave exactly as predicted, but predictable they certainly are. More and more we seem to live in a joyless environment where everything with any spark of originality is treated like some unpleasant boil that requires lancing. I seem to be coming to a pivital moment in my life,  when I will either going on to greater things or fall flat on my face. Strangely enough it seems unimportant now as if I am observing events happening in someone else’ s  life seen at a slight distance.  I do have friends though and that’s a good thing.

The Half Moon public house in Putney, SW London, may be forced to stop hosting live music

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The Half Moon public house in Putney, SW London, may be forced to stop hosting live music:

Save the Half Moon !!
Half Moon PutneyThe Half Moon public house in Putney, SW London, may be forced to stop hosting live music….

Please join this group on >> facebook so that more people learn about this
More details >> here

It will be a shame if this go’s but I suspect it will make a great pub bistro.
I use to go there a while back, in the 70’s when it was a free to get in of course, and not the dedcated venue it later became.

For more info about other reasons why some music venues are closing go here >>

http://www.livemusiclondon.com/home/2009/11/live-music-bill-returns-to-haunt-government/

Live Music seems to regarded in the same light as drug addiction or sex offending in some areas in government.
Its rather puzzling as it is a means of employment for many yet even the musicians union don’t seem to be very interested in real grass
roots musos at the bottom of the pecking order?