Monthly Archives: December 2022

CBRG is the place to be

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On Christmas Evening the Imaginary Stations series on WRMI on shortwave featured CBRG a tribute to the Seeburg Corporation. The show is now up online below for all to enjoy. Listen in if you want to get into a mall mood.

At 15.40 mins in One Deck Pete presents a mix for CBRG
Tracklistings
Alpha Centori – Enter the ghost mall
SJD – Shopping Malls
Minimatic – Easy is my name
Faint Waves – Island Fantasia (Cabana Edit)
Moxie – 95′ closing

It’ll be broadcast again to Europe via Channel 292 at 1200 UTC on Sunday 15th January 2023 if you fancy hearing it on 6070 kHz via the ionosphere.

Conifers in Coventry

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We were suprised, saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of Terry Hall earlier this week. We really don’t know what to say about it as like lots of people, himself alongside The Specials were a part of our musical lives.

Rather than getting all maudlin about it, let’s raise a smile at something daft we found in a Mojo interview with him from a while back:

“I get obsessed with stuff. In the late ’90s I was trying to perfect conifer height, I remember that. I planted about 30 conifers, and I wanted them to all grow at the same level. You buy them, and they’re all 18 inches, and you plant them all at the same depth, feed and water them all the same, and some died and some went brown. Why? It really did my head in…”

Life and Gardening, two things that can do your head in. RIP Terry Hall.

Banish stress with this and some left over pork pie

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Big shout to our good friend Shane Quentin AKA Head Gardener of The Garden of Earthly Delights radio show. He’s compiled a couple of hours “of mostly new, laid back and very chilled out grooves to help you through to 2023.” This is excellent mix and should be banged out on the stereo pronto. Cheers Shane!
Tracklistings:
Duval Timothy : Up
mu tate : Benz (with Santebela)
Burial : Strange Neighbourhood
J. Albert : Angles To Curve
Son Of Chi + Arthur Flink : Part Two
PlatzWave : Thinning of the Vale
Other Lands : April 14th – A Prayer For Peace
Jim Edgar Morgan : Seeing The World Differently
The Gaye Device : Who Goes Where – The Space Between
WMD : Yearn
Cucina Povera + Ben Vince : Siellä Näen Kaiken
Holmes + atten Ash : Lapetus
Kirby Perman : St John Church Bells
Katie English + Mark Kluzek : Clearing
Louise Le May : A Wintry Dream
Rob St. John Rose : Ferraby Half Life
Rudi Arapahoe : To Gather Flowers
Gardener : Listening to Tusk Stoned
Very Tired Astronaut : Car on a Staircase
Dylan Henner : I Hope I Will Be Remembered as a Good Person

The solstice in the comfort of your own slippers

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“This year Winter Solstice will be marked at Stonehenge on the morning of the 22nd December, not the 21st December.” English Heritage.

We nearly started up the (DJ) horsebox earlier this morning to make the trek down to the ‘henge and join Ken Barlow and the hundreds of others for the solstice festivities. Thank God we found out that English Heritage has changed the date before setting off. Let’s hope the many who go down by train know about the date change or they’ll find they will need to buy an open saver return instead of a day return or they will be travelling illegaly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAW279FnSo

If you want to miss out on the train, the layers of mud and hours of waiting, technology has come to the rescue as English Heritage have a live stream going tomorrow morning with some ambient accompaniment (above). So put on your best slippers, have some tea and toast ready and watch the sunrise from the comfort of your armchair without breaking any laws. A Happy Solstice to you all, whenever or wherever you’ll be celebrating the solstice.

It’s cold outside

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Who’d have thought we’d have snow in London yesterday. It came down in the late afternoon and it is most forgiving when it comes to a garden that needs a bit of work doing on it. Even the shortwave radio longwire antenna is feeling the cold.

It’s been a while since we’ve been out there and there are lots of jobs to do but the jobs can wait as there isn’t a fat lot of things we can do at the present moment. With the solstice around the corner it won’t be too long before it’s spring (or are we just fooling ourselves?)

Here’s to the sunshine..

Anyone can make radio happen…

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In a couple of hours time the Imaginary Stations crew have a DIY related broadcast via WRMI on 9395 kHz at 2300 hrs UTC.

There will be toolshed related tunes, advice on repairing stuff around the home “without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts” and tips and tricks from various handymen and women from around the globe. So plug in that homebrew radio, tune it in and enjoy!