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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

  • A Darker Green
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A Darker Green by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Its All About The Money You Know
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Its all about the mo0ney you know
  • Bluer Than You Now
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A violin and Rhodes tune for you 🎶
  • The Best That I Can Do For You Now
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    The Best That I Can Do For You Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • I Have No Faith Left
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    I Have No Faith Left by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • Just Because It Fits Maybe You Shouldent
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just Because It Fits Maybe You Shouldent by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • KIng Sleazy Blues
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just a sleazy blues
  • Your Mind And Body Opened Up My Doors
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Sometimes you have a revelation and you can’t keep it to yourself so you end up singing about about it almost ecstatically. So I did. Go me. A very recent recording inspired by those moments of special sharing twined with enlightenment.
  • When Spirits Talk
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Tune in Gb
  • Dissertation
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A few thoughts on lost opportunities' in a pop rock setting ballad.
  • Just cause you are a bad person
    by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just cause you are a bad person by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • 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