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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

  • No More Excuse
    by Diana Stone
    No More Excuses because you are bad. Slightly Gospel Blues feel song
  • Mostly Grey Or Gray
    by Diana Stone
    Mostly Grey Or Gray by Diana Stone
  • A Place You Will Never Find
    by Diana Stone
    A peaceful violin and electronica instrumental vibe.
  • Feeling The Fear
    by Diana Stone
    A song about feeling the fear and running away, but its not far enough.
  • Still Fire Inside
    by Diana Stone
    A song about feeling the blood rushing and the spirit still rises with that special person.
  • Show Me Something I Can Believe In
    by Diana Stone
    Pop world vibe
  • I Know You Will Bite Me
    by Diana Stone
    A song about when you know somebody is dangerous no matter what they say.
  • Christmas Jingle Thing No1
    by Diana Stone
    Electronica Christmas Music
  • I See You For What You Are
    by Diana Stone
    I See You For What You Are by Diana Stone
  • Drifting on a gentle wind
    by Diana Stone
    Impressionistic Solo Piano
  • Slow Sunday Winter
    by Diana Stone
    Thinking on a winter's day about what's gone wrong.
  • Wasted Life
    by Diana Stone
    Looking back on life and its highs and lows and what was worth it and what wasn't
  • Crusing Elevator Easy Music
    by Diana Stone
    Mellow Calming Elevator Music
  • Can You Give Me A Sign
    by Diana Stone
    A song about trying to work at what the point is if there is one.
  • I ask You Was It Worth it
    by Diana Stone
    A song about meeting somebody from your past that has not done so well in the intervening years…
  • Embrace The MIrror
    by Diana Stone
    Piano trio and vocal
  • Christal Robot Dream
    by Diana Stone
    dreaming of ice and winter
  • All Human LIfe Is There
    by Diana Stone
    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.
  • Magic In This Rainy Weather
    by Diana Stone
    Poppy trance song
  • Come On Baby Feel Your Way
    by Diana Stone
    Just another rock song about getting it on