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 [...]

Absolute Radio is based at One Golden Square, and Virgin Radio has been based at the same address since its launch in 1993. Golden Square is in the heart of Soho, and it actually has some fascinating history including a wonderful musical past in this very building.
Today when you head into London, you may well [...]

So we’ve all started to chat to our sales clients about our new brand name and generally the response has been good, but let’s be honest would you really expect it to be bad? There are few agency/advertisers out there that are going to say “I don’t like it.” It’s only a word its and [...]

How does anyone say goobye to a legend? Tony Hadley is just that. No ’80s tv documentary passes without his face within, singing those great songs which spell out that decade to a generation. For almost two years now, it’s been a privilege to have had him on the schedule, most recently [...]

For those of you who were lucky enough to be watching the Kings of Leon at the V Festival the other weekend, then you may have missed my band, Carlotti, playing in the Virgin Radio VIP tent (thanks James!).  Well fear not as I have the video from the day, see if you can spot [...]

It’s always a case of sharp intake of breath when inviting comments from listeners and users.  Particularly when you’ve said you’ll actually bother to consider them - and, with this being radio,  people would soon notice if I merrily ignored them all.
So.  I sent out a note to all our thousands of VIPs last week, [...]

It is five o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. I am in a small kitchen, making a cup of tea for myself and a lady called Dawn. We met one minute ago. I try some smalltalk:
“This is a nice little place you’ve got here. ” I say.
“It’s not so little.” she replies sharply, affronted.
I want to explain [...]

Over the past year, we in sales have been out and about with a presentation called “the Age of Consent” (double entendre, audience already on our side) in which we argue the case for commercial radio’s successful future. In the presentation, we suggest 6 key elements that a radio station needs to do well in [...]

Since the new mill owners threw this conversation wide open to us oiks working the looms, the most fiercely debated subject has been music. Somewhat inadvertently, I have emerged as a firebrand; a latter day Ned Ludd, wanting to lead a workers’ uprising to smash up the Selector computer and lay waste to all those [...]

And then there was you dear fellow staff member (as well as few others).
You know what makes this place.
You are what makes this place… Your ears, your voices, and your drinking problems. Your real-life new and old testaments, to the importance of our corner building and its significance to everyone else.
Please think about all the [...]

Hey guess what, the radio station is changing! Version 2.0 starts this autumn and I for one can’t wait. We have such a huge amount of talent across all floors at Golden Square that I think radio in the UK is unaware what a sleeping giant we are, and will be, come September/October!
So, what is [...]