{"id":178527,"date":"2025-01-13T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178527"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:41:31","slug":"tis-the-merry-month-of-january-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/01\/13\/tis-the-merry-month-of-january-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis the Merry month of January I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hurrah! Our first Sonic Boomers gig of January and it was fun, though a few tech glitches occured at the start. But folks were up and dancing and that&#8217;s what matters really. January is always a bit of a fight to get through especially when it&#8217;s been so very cold like it has the past few days. I can stand being out in the cold for a short while but not too long at the moment. So I haven&#8217;t been walking much lately I must admit. Though I do have a pair of trainers posed and ready to go in case of emergency. Its Monday and so on with the motley and all that. Still a bit knackered but much less than yesterday. Haven&#8217;t got around to sorting car removal yet but that&#8217;s this weeks task I guess. Nice to see a bit of sun though and its warmer this week at least fortunately. It&#8217;s always 2 days to catch up regardless of it being one gig or 3 in a row. This a bit more of an effort in some respects. There is not as much driving or lifting but there are about 80 or 90 songs in the repertoire so a lot more concentration is required as some also more complex and each gig is a slightly different set list, though there is not much busking stuff.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sonic Boomers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"481\" data-attachment-id=\"178550\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/01\/13\/tis-the-merry-month-of-january-i-guess\/sonic-boomers-2025-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1.png?fit=1095%2C871&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1095,871\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sonic boomers 2025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1.png?fit=604%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1-1024x815.png?resize=604%2C481&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1.png?resize=1024%2C815&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1.png?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1.png?resize=768%2C611&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1.png?w=1095&amp;ssl=1 1095w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In other news it&#8217;s pretty grim out there mostly in the wider world right now. Hopes and prayers and all that. I have been working on recording a new tune today, I think it&#8217;s going be an instrumental in its first incarnation, though a vocal version might happen too at some point in the future. <br><br>Here&#8217;s a song of mine  from 2021<br><br><strong>Take anything you want from me<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1130586055&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/take-anything-you-want-from-me\" title=\"Take Anything You Want From Me\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Take Anything You Want From Me<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Not literally of course, as it&#8217;s a song  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurrah! Our first Sonic Boomers gig of January and it was fun, though a few tech glitches occured at the start. But folks were up and dancing and that&#8217;s what matters really. January is always a bit of a fight to get through especially when it&#8217;s been so very cold like it has the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/01\/13\/tis-the-merry-month-of-january-i-guess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tis the Merry month of January I guess<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonic-boomers-2025-1.jpg?fit=218%2C173&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Krt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179456,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/11\/12\/back-in-st-albans-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":178527,"position":0},"title":"Back in St Albans again","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Well I played a gig with the Sonic Boomers at The Toll House in St Albans and it was fun and went well. 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I am still a bit fatigued though. But hey I enjoyed it and that's the point really. Also a friend who is quite reclusive came along and watched the first set which is nice. 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