So today I’m excited to say we launch a new radio station called….dabbl
dabbl will broadcast live on DAB between 7pm and 6am and for the beta launch period (approx six weeks) it will showcase exclusively live music.
It’s a new user-controlled radio where the playlist is in your hands – you vote for the songs you want to hear.
You can browse all of the songs in the library by artist, track name, live event and year. Once you’ve found a track you like, all you have to do is hit the ‘Vote’ button. The tracks with the most votes are played out during the following hour. Simple!
The website dabbl.co.uk will go live this afternoon, and a lot of hard work has gone in to this by a large group of people, so thank you all.
As you know, in our first year as Absolute Radio, we recorded and broadcasted over 100 live performances from the Isle of Wight Festival and Hard Rock Calling, Blur, Coldplay and Kings of Leon gigs, and V Festival. We wanted dabbl to showcase this fantastic live content, and celebrate the best live performances.
What next for dabbl?
dabbl won’t always be about live music. We are looking at introducing other themes, and we want you to help us choose them. After a quick hands up around the office at One Golden Square, here are a few ideas:
Britpop classics, classic covers, songs to rock-out to, Punk Rock karaoke tunes, songs with colours in the title. Anything goes. Please forward your suggestions.
This is a beta trial, so expect some changes along the way and naturally a few teething problems, but we hope you like it.
Chris
