Category Archives: Events

The nextrad.io Conference by Duncan Riley

Would you send a Designer to a radio conference? Probably not. But Absolute Radio did, and with good reason too. The inaugural nextrad.io conference, held at the slightly mysterious Magic Circle behind London’s Euston station certainly didn’t fall under the bracket of a traditional programmers jolly. Think less faders & frequencies, more followers & the [...]

Mercury Rising ! by James Curran

  The Barclaycard Mercury Prize remains one of the most prestigious awards that any album of recorded music can win . Our job as judges is to whittle down the 250 or so albums ,which are contenders,  to one winner, worthy of the prize . It is a process which for me became a personal [...]

We’ve Only Gone and Won Another Award! By Lauren Stone

  This time we’re celebrating last summer’s ‘Make It Great With Office 2010′ campaign where Geoff Lloyd and the team invited kids under 11 to make homework projects telling us about their summer holidays, rewarding the winners with great prize packages including computers, Xbox’s and TV’s. And a year later, media agency UM London have [...]

Absolute Radio Presents Lenny Kravitz at The Box in Soho

We are staging an exclusive intimate gig with four time Grammy Award winning artist Lenny Kravitz in the fittingly wild, rock ‘n’ roll venue that is The Box, situated in the heart of the red light district in London’s Soho. This is the first time in three years that Lenny will take to the stage [...]

Well Done Ronnie Wood! By Paul Sylvester

The Ronnie Wood Show has notched up its 6th award nomination of 2011. This time our Rolling Stones legend is up for radio show/podcast of the year at the BT Digital Music Awards. The nominations have just been announced and Ronnie is going toe-to-toe with Adam & Joe on 6Music and podcasts such as Selector [...]