The new playlist is now out.
Simple Minds – Star Will Lead The Way (20th July)
The 2nd single from Simple Minds’ Top 10 album ‘Graffiti Soul. Their recent performance at the Isle of Wight Festival reminded all who saw and heard it why Simple Minds were one of the biggest bands of the ‘80s. Jim [...]

The brand new single from this year’s winners of ‘One Last Dream’ is available for download right now at i-Tunes.
The Original Sinners got together with Henry Priestman (formerly of The Christians) to write a brand new song in the space of just two days.  Guy Pratt of Pink Floyd fame also popped down to the [...]

Here’s the moment that The Original Sinners won One Last Dream 2009 with Guitar Hero Greatest Hits.

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Congratulations to the boys.  They’ll be worthy winners and will be no disgrace to the Hard Rock Calling Stage when they play with Neil Young next Saturday night.  It’ll be the end of [...]

Twelve months ago, if you’d mentioned the Kings of Leon within the confides of One Golden Square you’d have heard mutterings of “why don’t we ever play them?” or “we should be hammering Molly’s Chambers and The Bucket.”
Perhaps the murmurings of discontent held some validity but then hindsight is a wonderful thing. However, from [...]

THE CHRISTIAN O’CONNELL BREAKFAST SHOW
Join Christian and the team every morning from 6-10AM for the Little Business of the Week, Guitars for Schools and The Kettle Classic to discover why Christian has been nominated for the Entertainment Award at the Sony Radio Awards 2009.
THE NO REPEAT GUARANTEE
We never play the same song twice – each [...]

A month or so ago, Russ Williams was interviewing Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan about his new album “One Eye To Morocco”. During the conversation, Ian mentioned that he had always dreamed of making an acoustic album. This prompted Russ to ask whether any Deep Purple tracks could be stripped down and played on a 12-string [...]

Elton John’s classic track ‘Tiny Dancer’ was added to our current playlist this week. This was prompted by the fact that there is currently a vastly inferior hip hop version of ‘Tiny Dancer’ by DJ Ironik which is being released next week. Christian O’Connell has been leading a campaign on his breakfast show to strike [...]

Absolute Radio is sponsoring the Music Venue of the Year at this week’s Music Week Awards. The awards are taking place at Grosvenor House next Wednesday and the illustrious Geoff Lloyd will be presenting the award.
This award sponsorship signifies the beginning of a long term relationship with Music Week; specifically with their new artists initiative [...]

On Friday, broadcasting regulator Ofcom gave GWR FM (Bristol and Bath) a yellow card warning for not operating within its format. Global Radio is reported to be disputing Ofcom’s findings.
Global Radio is in the process of changing many of its local stations into the Heart brand. It started earlier this year with its stations in [...]

There is a current ongoing Twitter debate as to why a radio station like Absolute Radio would play James Morrison’s ‘Broken Strings’? Is it real music ?
Now I totally understand why some people might not like these sort of tracks – ‘too poppy’, ‘too mellow’,’ not cool enough for me’, ‘too wimpy’,’ everyone [...]

On 2nd April 2009 Keane will make history with the world’s first ever live webcast in 3D, from Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London.
The multi-million selling, award-winning band Keane are recognised for championing groundbreaking ideas. In 2006 they were the first artists to release a single on a new format - the USB stick, [...]

U2 do divide opinion. For some they are self appointed rock messiahs determined to save the Third World when they should be concentrating on making the great music that brought them fame. I’ve always thought that was a harsh view of the band and was probably spawned by commentators sickened by their huge commercial success. [...]

James Cridland notes that despite the media world having changed so much even since the millennium:
“The total number of people listening to radio every week (45.5m) is the second highest figure since 2000″
and
“The total number of people listening to radio every week is the second highest figure since 2000.”
Meanwhile a new report covered in Media [...]

…and that’s how I became the unofficial music archivist of 1 Golden Square. Well, sort of…

You see, I had been taken on, in a freelance capacity, long before TIML’s acquisition, to begin the slow process of digitising the very best of the live performances of the assorted festivals or live gigs that [...]

If someone asked you to be involved in the most high profile and expensive US Presidential campaign race of all time, take up a role in the Sopranos, play the half time show at the Superbowl alongside Bruce Springsteen to an estimated audience of almost 100 million people and broadcast a radio show on Absolute [...]