Category Archives: Events

Rock ‘N’ Roll Football’s ‘Boys Night In’

On Tuesday 18th October we staged the very first Rock ‘N’ Roll Football Boys Night In – an exclusive event created to raise money for, our partner, youth charity The Prince’s Trust. Money raised will go towards helping disadvantaged young people across the UK get the skills and confidence they need to get a job. [...]

Absolute Radio & USP Content To Sponsor Student Radio Awards ‘Best Radio Station of The Year Award’ – By Paul Sylvester

We’re delighted to announce that Absolute Radio and our football partners USP Content are joining together to sponsor the ‘Best Radio Station of the year’ category at the 2011 Student Radio Awards. This is one of the major awards at the November event which celebrates some of the talent who are producing hundreds of hours [...]

Radio Academy adds another rock music legend to Festival line-up

Another exciting name has joined the already stellar line up taking part in this year’s Radio Academy Festival. Rock music god Pete Townshend will give his keynote speech in Salford later this month looking at the current state of music media and attendees will also get the chance to quiz The Who guitarist in a [...]

Video: Watch Lenny Kravitz rock London’s Red Light district

The legendary Lenny Kravitz recently played to a select crowd of just 200 people in London’s Soho. The crowd, filled with super fans and celebrity friends including Hollywood darling Gwyneth Paltrow, were treated to the most intimate Lenny Kravitz gig that London has seen for 22 years following his breakout performance at the Borderline all [...]

Ronnie Wood joins Radio Festival line-up

Multi-award-winning Absolute Classic Rock presenter Ronnie Wood has been added to the programme for this year’s Radio Festival which takes place in Salford in November. The legendary Rolling Stones guitarist will be interviewed on stage by veteran broadcaster Melvyn Bragg about his life as a rock-star as well as his current career in radio. Ronnie [...]