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End of Brave New Waves

Apparently on January 17, 2007 CBC Radio 2 announced that Brave New Waves would be removed it’s line up, and according to Justin at Metroblogging Montreal this is it’s final week. This represents the end of an era for me. I grew up listening to Brave New Waves… I first heard it when I was 14 and Augusta La Paix was the host… I listened to it throughout the Brent Bambury years, and continued listening to it well into Patti Schmidt’s run.

Since it aired on weeknights from midnight to 4 a.m I had many a rough and sleepy morning throughout high school. Really it had a bigger influence on my musical tastes, probably even my personality, than any other single media source. Every year I’d visit my father in Ontario (I grew up in Moncton) and be armed with lists of albums to be filled at Record Peddler in TO.

In University I’d written countless papers in all night sessions accompanied by Brave New Waves (and multiple pots of coffee). In recent years, the 9 to 5 years, I haven’t had the chance to tune in too often, but I’m very sad to hear of it’s passing. I almost think of it as the passing of an beloved institution… The air waves will simply not be the same