We really could do with some air conditioning in the radio rooms here at University after spending three hours in an air conditioned studio at Time 106.6 where Stephen or Tony to give him his DJ name was presenting the Soul Cellar.
The transport as expected wasn't up to scratch with the trains and tubes being rather slow and bloody boiling at the same time. However I arrived just before 6pm and luckily the radio station wasn't too far.
The station itself despite being based in the Observatory Shopping centre in Slough wasn't really that big but then again I wasn't expecting anything too spectacular.
There were however a few shades of the station that used to occupy the building;
Star FM with a mousemat with the stations logo and addresses on it and a sign above the entrance saying "Stars Only".
The playout system looked really complicated with all the music and jingles stored on a DOS based version of Selector meaning that you had to type up the codes for songs that you wanted to play rather than dragging and dropping them on the Windows based version.
The music was on top form with tunes from Stephanie Mills, Rodney Franklin's "The Groove" and 3 tracks by Earth Wind And Fire. It was quite difficult to fulfill requests as the system didn't have "Breezin'" by George Benson or "Shake Your Groove Thang" by Peaches and Herb that listeners wanted to hear but despite that it was an enjoyable show and good to see I'm grateful to Stephen for letting me see him in action.
As for tomorrow it looks set to be very hectic as Smoke's Out 4 Summer 2 gets underway with an outside broadcast from the bar and the second of our Messy Mondays later on. It's also goodbye to two of the best specialist shows on the station in the shape of Paul and Ross's "Live Variety Show" and "Tudor Rock" and from what I've heard they've good some good things planned to go out on and things won't get too emotional.
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