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Humble, How is That Working For You

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I don’t like to push to much, but that’s hard if you make music and actually want it to be heard by anyone. Also I try to not get pretentious and keep a light touch and a sense of humour, but that is not always to my advantage. We are not judging you….

Vicky martin and Diana Stone

I have had a week of self doubt about what I am doing, triggered perhaps by as usual to much introspection. I listened to a couple of recent tracks that I though were not so good and after a break from them they actually sounded rather better than I had though at first listen. Ear saturation perhaps? Particularly when listening to the sound of your own voice where over familiarity breeds utter concontempt. But what is there to do but just keep pushing on…

I played at an Irish style session last night with the Also Rans (a loose Irish collective) and it was a fine and pleasant evening of music for a Saturday night. There is something to be said for simplicity at times. I need to relearn that on occasion. Whilst talking casually a couple of people were surprised at my age, (I can’t recall how it came up in conversation) but I said it’s all an illusion, slights of hand and deception. I do forget and then my body reminds me 🙂

A proper gig

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I played a good old fashioned rip roaring pub gig last Saturday with the Sonic Boomers at a country pub in an outdoor marquee. It was a bit cold and we were worried that there would not be enough brave souls willing to step out into the wild outdoors but we had a good crowd and we played well. For a brief moment it felt like old times again. This weeks going to be a quiet one though with no rehearsals or social contact so it may be a bit hard going.

I am still having a bit of a mental fight about certain aspects of my life. My inner life is very weird at times as is my inner dialogue. Yes I am strangely strange at times. Don’t overthink it is the rule. The old bones are complaining too as its raining again.

Diana Stone at The Music Palace, Crouch End

How To Keep It All Together

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The world is rumbling on toward destruction as ever, its difficult to ignore and hard to understand and exhausting and depressing to think about.

I am lost in a bit of a fog. I have stuff happening which is good though. I do feel very tired quite often, much more often that I use to. Is it just age related? I am OK when I am out and about doing stuff but often on a day at home I just seem to run out of energy. My home is comfortable and I have everything I need here plus my music room/studio which I do use quite often. But just recently I seem to be doing a lot of staring into space. I still have boxes of stuff packed from when we moved 6 years ago that I can’t face sorting out.

This is song from 2022 that needs a bit more love I think. Why not give it a listen and see what you feel.

Elephant Shelf in their heyday in Brighton at The Joogleberry Playhouse.

Remember, don’t take yourself too seriously.

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