About Diana and music

Music and Me
A brief musical
history
A history of a thousand Demo tapes

Dianas music links
Mp3s, windows media audio,and video clips

I compose mostly on keyboards and play Violin and Guitar also, and I write in almost every style which I suppose makes me a difficult product to package !!! and even though I have been at it a few years there are still many areas of Musical endevour that I have still to explore.I have now started to produce my own Cds and this for me has finally allowed me a way to get my music out in to the world, it is amazing how the recent changes in technology have allowed musicians more freedom than ever in having control over what they produce and the ability to make it available almost anywhere. of course the WWW it's self has shrunk the world to much more managable proportions now.Some of the songs that I write have some relation to Gender issues in the broad sense,though this is in many ways such a personal thing that it is very difficult to know how to explain this area of ones life to any one who has not experienced it.Use the links above to find out more about my music.

Any lyric writers/co-writers out there that would like to contribute ?

It would also be great to here from anyone that is interested in writing songs with me even if you are not wishing to perform live. Perhaps you might want to record or perhaps be in video. I am sure that you all must be out there somewhere, and of course its easy to collaborate across the web by sending your recorded parts to be dropped in to a track.

I am one of those people who has always been on the edge of the music business And I have had the odd do it yourself release , the universal muso experience of playing to a bunch of comatose drunks !!!, and of course the persistant cry " Do you know My way " !!!. Well in those days I definitely was not doing things my way , Diana had not really seen the light of day but I am now trying to change all that of course. I have tried to put some of my thoughts in to songs but there are many ideas which don't really relate to the way most people live there lives and it can come as a shock to realise how one may be perceived out side of the TG/TS/TV/CD what ever community .

I think I have drifted through every musical style in the history of Mankind,
( personkind perhaps, or am I getting a bit Californian ) as I have always been interested in almost every sort of music from pop to the musicals and the classics,
I would love to get into film /soundtrack writing but it is of course like every other part of the music world highly competitive .

I am very much a composer , though I do like to play live and I would very much like to get together a competent bunch of TG type musos but at the moment I do work a lot on my own, If there was enough demand then I would like to start doing regular live gigs at TG/TV friendly venues , but if there is any one that is seriously interested in doing this please get in touch , though you must be willing to play original material as this is not going to be a covers band.

Where are the rest of you ?

London is a big place, and there must be many Musical TG types out there, but for some strange reason I never seem to meet any of them ! Still we live in hope.

Last tranny to Clarksville perhaps ?

Elephant Shelf band
I have just joined a rather good band called Elephant Shelf and we gig around the North & East London area. Its Blues Swing and a little bit of folky stuff , I play Keyboards and Violin in it. We have had a very good reception so far, and we have plenty of gigs lined up.Heres a pic of us in action at the "Lord Nelson" 100 Holloway Road, where we have a residency.

VIDEO CLIP'S
Click me for a short video clip of the band playing "Snakebite" at "Spoofers Bar" also in the Holloway Road(next to the tube, opposite the Uni)>>Windows wma format 2.5 Mb download or how about Route 66 Windows wma format 1.5 Mb also at Spoofers bar.
More video and stuff coming soon...

More video to follow soon.
To find out more go to www.elephantshelf.com

Don't be shy say hello, and lets do something
to get ourselves noticed, before we all get older and crustier !

I am still recording and writting in my project studio as well doing the live stuff.
I must be totally mad !

Heres some music from my latest set of recordings, on my Lonely fish CD.Why lonely fish, well beacuse I was watching the fish at the doctors surgery, and although the tank was big there seeemd to be a couple of fish just hanging out on there own. Of course they might not have been lonely, they may have been the James Dean of fish but who knows.

Well I am still recording so heres material from August 2004 l that I have been keeping myself busy with !

Gosh look theres another picture of that band I am in below, I wonder how that got there !

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