{"id":179402,"date":"2025-10-22T15:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179402"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:59:01","slug":"piccadilly-dreamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/10\/22\/piccadilly-dreamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Piccadilly Dreamers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>25 years ago on an outing in London with mates we did the classic Eros statue shot. A right dodgy crew we were I reckon looking at us. Are you working tonight ladies? No we weren&#8217;t honestly. But so long ago. I would have been about 43 in that picture I guess. Time&#8217;s winged chariot seem to have been travelling at something close to light speed I feel on some days.<\/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\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2156384808&#038;color=%23400e0e&#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\/night-noises\" title=\"Night Noises\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Night Noises<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, right now I feel as if we have hit peak nothing makes sense any more. I have had a few better nights sleep recently in terms of not waking up to much which is good. I do feel in a very odd mood. Not depressed but puzzled rather. That&#8217;s life I guess. I think I still need to try and find a really local music buddie for open mics and stuff, but I can&#8217;t get my head in the right place for it to be honest at present. <br><br><strong>Grace Will Lead Me Home<br><\/strong><br>Sunday was a little different doing sound for &#8216;Grace Will Lead Me Home&#8217; at St Saviours in St Albans. It&#8217;s been years since I have done live sound for another act. Think I got away with it.<br>I also recorded the gig on multitrack too. I haven&#8217;t checked that out yet though. Its a project that <a href=\"https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/jon-bickley\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"175455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jon Bickley  <\/a>is part off.<br><br><strong>Angeline, Cohen and Jon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heart of the project is the creation of new music. Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and Jon Bickley got together in Dartmouth House in Olney to research and respond to the writing of Amazing Grace, Newton&#8217;s life and times. It was a time when slavery was an accepted part of the trading economy of the world. Earlier in his life Newton had been the captain of a slave trading ship and then later he was an abolitionist. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The house was once owned by the Earl of Dartmouth and he gave John Newton his first clerical posting as Curate in Charge at St.Peter and St.Paul&#8217;s in Olney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cowper and Newton Museum showed us where Newton preached and where he wrote, we played Cowper&#8217;s harpsichord &nbsp;and we saw the manacles that kept kidnapped Africans incarcerated in the cargo hold of British trading ships.<br><br>Read more here<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/grace-will-lead-me-home\">https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/grace-will-lead-me-home<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago on an outing in London with mates we did the classic Eros statue shot. A right dodgy crew we were I reckon looking at us. Are you working tonight ladies? No we weren&#8217;t honestly. But so long ago. I would have been about 43 in that picture I guess. Time&#8217;s winged chariot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/10\/22\/piccadilly-dreamers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Piccadilly Dreamers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179411,"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-179402","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\/10\/Dilly-girls.png?fit=1184%2C864&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KFA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":151626,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/11\/11\/one-week-ago-donald-trump-told-nigel-farage-to-make-a-pact-with-boris-johnson\/","url_meta":{"origin":179402,"position":0},"title":"One week ago Donald Trump told Nigel Farage to make a pact with Boris Johnson.","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"One week ago Donald Trump told Nigel Farage to make a pact with Boris Johnson.Today, Trump got his wish.This Trump alliance is Thatcherism on steroids and could send \u00a3500 million a week from our NHS to big drugs companies. 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