Diana Stones Blog

Ok its another picture of me with a piano….

Diana Stone and a Baby Grand

 

A fun night at Round Midnight Islington.

A Pink Hippo says: I had quite a fun weekend;

Saturday May 8th was a great night at the Blues Room in St Albans backing the rather good >> Earl Jackson which was basically a Rock & Roll night. We did an opening Elephant Shelf set and get Earl up to keep the folks rocking till about 12:30 so another 3 hour set fueled only by 2 pints  of draft Guinness. A great bunch of people there and I think they really enjoyed it, and they were up and dancing right till the end. We also had a guest appearance from Rollo Marquee a very good blues harp player who will be playing at the Blues Room soon too.

Sunday May 9th of to ST FM in Burnham Essex to do a live to air set with Elephant Shelf .

We did four songs, with an interview with the band sandwiched in-between.  We were on the Sunday night show with Veteran Essex musician, journalist and broadcaster Tim Aves ‘Blues is back’ show.

Elephant Shelf viewed from the Piano at the ST-FM studio

We met Tim previously when he played with the shelf at the Blues Room. Tim  is a very well-known, award-winning figure on the national UK blues scene, as a performer, writer and event organiser.He sings and plays harmonica and guitar and spent 17 years on the road, clocking up more than 3,000 gigs across the UK and continental Europe in the 1980s and 1990s with legendary Essex rhythm’n'blues band AUTOMATIC SLIM, who shared stages with a huge range of major artistes, including Status Quo and Dr Feelgood. He later spent a further 13 years fronting the highly-regarded (but sadly, now disbanded) Texas blues outfit, THE ROCKIN’ ARMADILLOS (The band also featured Saint FM Rock Show co-host Paul Lester on drums and Gasbags co-presenter Jane English on vocals.)
We enjoyed the experience and we hope to be back down in Burnham on Crouch in the not too distant future . The live sound was mixed by Pete Crisp who engineers at the St Peters Studio and who also gave us a copy of the tracks that went to air.  Then another Real Ale and a Veggie burger, and off home to London.

Yesterday wearing my Delta ladies hat I went with Vicky Martin  to play a gig at the Travellers Rest in Draycott, Derbyshire. Its a really smashing small pub venue that has a really good selection of live music most nights a week. Its was a Small but select gathering but a fun night. Very good beer too. I met Carol Borington  who writes for Blues Matters  and who had wandered over the boarder from Nottingham to see the Delta’s. I think she enjoyed it as she will be doing a review.   I recomend  visiting the Travellers as it has a brilliant selection of music on each week and they are a really friendly bunch.

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Its not my bass I am just keeping it warm for a friend.

Diana & Betty Boop have discourse

Delta ladies are out tonight and tommorow too.

We are at the Pear and Partridge at London Colney tonight starting at 09:00 with special guest Terry McInearney on Drums.
Tomorrow Friday 26th We are at Olivers Jazz Bar Nevada St Greenwich Starting at about  10:00
Terry Mc Inearney on drums and Robbie Charles on Double Bass. O’yesss….

Lots of gigs, lots of stuff happening, and a lot of very late nights too. interestingly I seem to be picking up a bit of interest on jango.com from the look of the stats there. My average listener is between 30 & 40 and mostly lives in the US, which is cool.

If your at a loose end why not give me a visit on jango.com. and just type in Diana Stone. or paste this in your browser
http://www.jango.com/music/Diana+Stone
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Wearing my other Elephant Shelf & Delta Ladies hats. Elephant Shelf is now also available on Jango.com so have do have a look.
Elephant Shelf now also has a blog though their is not much to see yet, but there will be soon.

Yep finally an old fashioned CD on sale on line. It’s a compilation.

http://www.cafepress.co.uk/glasscage1

Diana Stones Glass Cage