Category Archives: music

The Little Green Dragon

November 16, 2022Delta Ladies, Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, music, Musings, Piano, picturesdiana Stone

I played a gig at a venue I have not visited since 2019 which used to be a regular haunt for the Delta Ladies, both to play at and to have a drink in. This is the “New Delta Ladies” and my co-conspirator is Jan Jackson on Bass and vocals. Here we are all hair and just our noses visible.
A very nostalgic visit. If we are spared we will be back there in the new year. A lovely atmosphere and a fun crowd and good beer. What more could one ask.

They have regular live music and Real Ales and Lagers and Gins.

THE LITTLE GREEN DRAGON Ale House
928 Green Lanes
Mason’s Corner
Winchmore Hill
LONDON N21 2AD

https://www.facebook.com/LittleGreenDragonMicropub

Normal Opening Times:

Monday: Closed

Tues, Wed, Thurs: 5pm – 10pm

Friday: 4pm – 10pm

Saturday: 2pm – 10pm

Sunday: 2pm – 8pm

In other news I recently released my latest album:
Happy Endings

Why not give it a listen?

And now back to the drawing board.

Prelude To Winter

November 4, 2022Delta Ladies, Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, music, Musings, Piano, piano works, whateverdiana Stone

It’s starting to get cold now. Ouch. Life goes on with a few hiccups along the path.

There is plenty going on on various musical fronts, so that’s all good. I am in 4 different acts, all very different, which hopefully get busier next year. A slight hiatus though, due to the guitar player in one band fracturing a finger and the drummer twisting their wrist and no they were not having a fight. In my folk act the guitar player has got a kidney infection. But overall I have a lot more going on now than I did a few months back creatively so that’s good. Other than that its business as usual over all. Finances are a bit iffy till next year so I am mostly doing stuff that does not cost too much to do socially. That’s OK though.

So here is a tune.

Diana Stones Glasscage · November Remembered

It’s a Piano and Keys thing, that sort of wrote it self the other week as they often do, whilst I was thinking about something completely different.

A memory from a few years back. No special reason for putting it here except it’s a fun picture with happy smiling people in it. We all need to do more smiling don’t you think.

Copacetic

October 23, 2022Delta Ladies, Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, music, Musings, other, whateverdiana Stone

Here is a recent Jazz fusion type tune that I recorded.
Violin plus Rhodes Piano and Fretless Bass sound.

Diana Stones Glasscage · Copacetic

I just escaped from Martins Charity Irish session at the Mill hotel in Bedford (In aid of the recent disaster at Creeslough ). 3 hours worth, so I was all fiddled out by that point. Nearly got stuck in the car park, with a tickety machine malfunction, but all sorted. It got really irish so I was blagging it on the violin to the max. Lots of people there so the charity hat filled up well. I am knackered today, 3 hours of fiddling has done me in. It was good fun and a worthwhile cause. There was an accordionist (Italian/Irish perhaps? ) We also played a latin thing and the Theme from the godfather then we segwayed into Molly Malone and some rebel songs and so forth. Some huge and stunning voices in evidence too.My A string decided to start unwinding too, but I got through it just before it got too unplayable. I realised that I am actually on my last full set of strings. Normally I don’t get to that point but I have got a little chaotic recently.

As I write this a phenomenal amount of rain is falling again.

Covid and me

I am wondering not if my possibly up to 4 separate bouts of covid have done me any lasting damage. I am beginning to have my suspicions now. I have had some very odd but niggling health issues that seem to drag on and manifest in rather strange ways. Some so odd that you start to doubt the sometimes fragile grip on sanity.