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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.

Well I did Try Honestly I Did

Well, from the live music side of things I seem to be a little stuck. I have a few gigs with various people, but sadly nothing regular enough and it’s quite depressing to be honest. I can’t see it getting any better really either. There is just not enough going on. I am going to make another effort to try and see if I can get something local going though to bulk it out a bit. Last best hope I guess. So folks keep your fingers crossed as I am running out of steam now pretty much, and the less I do the harder it seems to get. Conversely my limitations due to health at times also frustrate me so getting a balance is hard.

New tune below:

Today in another place I experienced a bit of anger from a turkey voting for christmas. It happens a lot. These people are best left alone it seems. Well I l always think deaths bony fingers resting on my shoulder and of course it is, but who knows when that hand will lift and lightly tap to get my attention. Time does have a habit of running out on us. At the time of writing this it is the 80th anniversary of D-day. Lots of pomp and all that. We are now in much less optimistic times again and war is increased and stability of the world at risk again.
Perhaps we did forget?

What puzzles me is why so many of my age demographic (I am 67 though I wish I was younger 😉 ) constantly repost fake information? You would think if they were capable of using Facebook, they would also be capable of fact checking instead of just reposting fake stuff because it happens to fit their personal prejudices’.

I am not going to repeat what I just read on another thread which was just another trolling s*** stirring comment about asylum seekers. It saddens me because either the post was made out of complete ignorance or frankly some people are just basically neo fascists in waiting. Either way they seem allergic to facts. Ho Hum…

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    A song about when you know somebody is dangerous no matter what they say.
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    Electronica Christmas Music
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    I See You For What You Are by Diana Stone
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    Impressionistic Solo Piano
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    Thinking on a winter's day about what's gone wrong.
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    Looking back on life and its highs and lows and what was worth it and what wasn't
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    Mellow Calming Elevator Music
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    A song about trying to work at what the point is if there is one.
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    A song about meeting somebody from your past that has not done so well in the intervening years…
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    Piano trio and vocal
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    dreaming of ice and winter
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    The thoughts of somebody watching life pass by on the street from the window. Perhaps an older or lonely person that feels apart and no longer needed wondering about the thoughts going on in the heads of the people passing by.

What A World With Such Wonders In It

Well there’s a warm welcome if ever I saw one. A warm NY welcome indeed. Here is my latest song, nothing to do with Trump though 🙂 Honest.

I just hope we don’t get to much like the Yanks and keep a bit of a sense of decorum here at home. Somehow I doubt it though the way things are going.

Times A Funny Thing

Where did all those years go? And why is everything weird now like “Alice through the looking glass”. Up is down and black is white and newspeak rules. And Oceania is constantly at war with Eurasia and Eastasia. And it’s nearly June. Everything is very green but we have rain virtually every day at present. I personally can’t remember things being quite like this before. The world seems pretty hopeless now, it could be a near paradise but greed and prejudice put paid to that.

A new instrumental track.
Friends With Benefits

So as usual I am doing what I do day to day. I had a brief overnight visit from my sister, so a slight change to my normal routine. I am getting back into a bit more regular exercise again now the post covid malaise seems to have worn off.

Who can you trust. My disillusionment increases day by day watching the run up to the UK election. At this point in my life it will make very little difference who is elected on a personal basis. But everything seems bleak generally in the world from where I stand. It could be that todays just a bad day for me personally of course. I have been jogging along feeling reasonably OK in the mental health department, but occasionally I get hit with something out of the blue that throws me off course. Ho hum. There are weeks when I see only my partner who is not always the best of communicators and that can seem strange.

last night I had a dream I was back at the office in a very junior position fileing and I was talking to work colleagues. I said it was the third time I had returned to work there. That’s quite odd as there has never been an occasion where I had returned to a workplace having left.