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This Song wants a Little More love

Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, music, Musings, other,

Golden Ticket

Go on, give it a spin 😉

Ok that’s the commercial over. I have been having a couple of not particularly productive days. So I have decided to just roll with it for the moment. I have the usual ideas buzzing in my head a bit but I haven’t started to kick off with them quite yet.

I am feeling a bit anxious generally to be honest. As in worried rather then panic attacks. I don’t know why but I have felt like that for a few days. There is a band rehearsal tonight for our charity gig at the church on at the weekend. I expect I will wobble through it. I am just feeling weird and very unsettled.

My old band Elephant Shelf many moons ago

It’s strange how much slight wrong bits in a tune can actually turn into magic moments. The secret chord you accidently create in an arrangement, but can’t really untangle.

A few recent Diana Stone tunes 🎶

One Step Forward Two Steps Backward Means All Work And No Play

Delta Ladies, Diana Stones Songs, Elephant Shelf, glass cage, music, Musings, other

Existential angst mostly. That’s what’s on my mind.

Labour and Conservative, what is the difference. Slightly less xenophobia?
Also the simplistic “working people” trope and still no proper “social housing” as in old school council houses due to misplaced ideology plus a few 100 other things….
So most people think it is one bunch of suits swapped for another (that’s actually what I think too).

The real ideological problem is in my opinion this: Clinging on to the old school notions that everyone wants the equivalent of a “middle class” lifestyle and sharing that view is in part the problem, Up north there are a lot of people who don’t share those views and are frankly often ill educated with a very narrow minded and naive view of the world. They are the ones and their descendants that Thatcher wrote off. They are the ones that supported Brexit, and some of them were rioting, possibly in part because that nice Mr Khan that owns the local 7-11 has a 3 year old Mercedes and they don’t… There needs to be a massive cultural shift. The arts need to be opened up to everyone. It will taken generations to fix. Not all old school socialist ideas were daft. Yes we need a strong economy and a skilled workforce, but also we need poetic road sweepers and homes for those that can work but will never be even hedge hoppers let along high flyers. Aspiration is fine but all the perspiration and grafting in the world won’t get you there if its not in the stars for you.

On a different subject I do YouGov polls. they did one today about “How Woke Are You”.
daft really, but the comments were interesting. A lot of guff about “woke” erasing british culture… I am so woke to the point that gammons are at risk of spontaneous combustion if I am within 3 meters of them.

And I just saw this from another occasional musical co-conspirator: “Statement from Ealing Blues Festival Founder Bob Salmons (aka musician Robert Hokum) as he bids farewell to the event he started in 1987 and where he remained Artistic Director, until 2024. “Well it’s not so much ‘Elvis has left the building’ as ‘Bob is leaving the park’ as I have joined the likes of Stephen Hawking and Rob Burrow in having Motor Neurone Disease and thus have to say ‘goodbye’ to the event that I have brought to Ealing’s Walpole Park since 1987.”

Blimey….

That was a shock.

Here are a few of my Tunes

  • Easy Come Easy Go
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A stream of consciousness song.
  • I am So Empty Now
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    I am So Empty Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Safe For The Moment
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Safe For The Moment by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Give Me What I Need I Know You Can
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A moment of pure joy letting go
  • Ace In My Hand Yesterday
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    jazz fusion world style instrumental
  • If I Should Fall
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Simple acoustic guitar instrumental tune.
  • Leaf On The LIne
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Autumnal Piano Piece
  • Wish You Would Let Me
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Wish You Would Let Me by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • False Prophet
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    False Prophet by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • In To The Dark
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    In To The Dark by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Third World Intervention
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Third World Intervention by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Hard Walk Into Sunlight
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Hard Walk Into Sunlight by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Ennui 11
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Ennui 11 by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Locked Down Even Now
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A mellow song for a rainy day.
  • Before You Leave Me
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A sad violin instrumental about loss.
  • Who Are You Now
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Who Are You Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • You Cant Help Me Now
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    You Cant Help Me Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Can You Help Me Please
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Can You Help Me Please by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Wanna Be Your Special Friend
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Wanna Be Your Special Friend by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Just Do It My Way OK
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just Do It My Way OK by Diana Stones Glasscage