Introduction
The most revealing thing that always strikes me about the Open Playlist is the enthusiasm of our listeners for music - their passion is unbridled . For us so called ‘music professionals’ our analysis of music can be a somewhat sanitised one where statistical expressions like ‘burn’ , ‘familiarity’ and ‘potential’ can [...]

When I was in my early twenties, and on the dole, I had a friend who worked on the barely-remembered Mike Smith TV quiz ‘That’s Showbusiness’. I sometimes used to go down to recordings at the BBC on Oxford Road in Manchester to avail myself of the sparkling white wine and crudites in the green [...]

In an X-Factor world, the music industry is a glass of fizzy pop.
It’s almost hypnotic… the bubbles in the murky syrup desperately fighting to reach the top. Rows of streamingly endless pockets of air, one after another, racing for a kamikaze jump to see how high they can reach past the rim of the [...]

Snow Patrol on Ben Jones’ Monday Night Live
Monday 27th October, 22:00 – midnight
It’s no easy feat to follow up on an album that sold nearly 5million copies worldwide and produced one of the most popular songs of the decade with Chasing Cars but Snow Patrol might just have pulled it off. Judge for yourselves as [...]

Since Absolute Radio started holding OPEN PLAYLIST MEETINGS we’ve been taking the results very seriously.
Listeners are invited in to One Golden Square to join the debate, as well as clients and other members of Absolute Radio staff from outside the programming team.
Each week so far we’ve discovered a new song, through the meeting, that has [...]

Ben Jones follows Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show on Monday to Thursday, between 8pm and midnight.
Here’s a quick guide to what’s coming up on weekday evenings during October, and in particular, Ben’s last hour, which is always something a bit special.
Thursdays – THE 90S HOUR, 11pm-midnight
A whole hour of tracks from the decade that brought us [...]

Further to yesterday’s post, some further indication on what the No Repeat Guarantee means.
The updated results below mean we have now surpassed Radio 2 as the UK radio station that plays the most individual tracks per week.

A quick glance at the graph below should give you an idea of what the No Repeat guarantee means.
Absolute Radio played over 732 different tracks in the w/c 27th Sept (launch week), our highest figure since this tracking began in April 2006. Capital played 234 individual tracks, their lowest figure for a while. Now that [...]

Yesterday saw the Q Awards, and Absolute Radio was there interviewing the stars as they came in.
Here’s a taster video presented by Tumshie Smillie which includes highlights of many of the interviews:

Watch more of the videos here.

This Thursday, Absolute Radio comes live from Abbey Road. Listen out to both the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show and Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show for lots of interviews and performances.
To whet your appetite, we’ve got this video, shot a few weeks ago in Studio 2 at Abbey Road where we were recording the sonic identity of [...]

In case you missed it, here’s the audio from the official launch of Absolute Radio at 7.45am today.
Absolute Radio launch

Well the public have voted! And in what numbers ! It never ceases to amaze me how passionate our listeners are about music, whether in response to our invite to join our weekly playlists or to take part in public votes such as the one we ran over the last few days to find the [...]

After much anticipation, we’ve lost our Virgin-ity and Absolute Radio has officially arrived! To celebrate, we’re bringing listeners the very best in live music with exclusive performances from some of the best music acts the world has ever known. Whether that’s Coldplay live in Munich or The Kooks performing an acoustic set in the Absolute [...]

Joan slid further down in her chair, almost to horizontal. A guttural grunt came involuntarily from her pretty lips as she ran her fingers through her long, curly hair. Another typical day for this hard-working PA, now managing a coven of ‘bosses’. “What time is it in Brazil?”, she croaked. It transpired [...]

David Lloyd will be leaving us next Friday 19th September. Donnach, Adrian and I didn’t know David that well before we meet in early July and having done so I am really sorry that we did not work together for longer.
As any new owner of a business knows, the most difficult decisions of all often [...]