http://onegoldensquare.com Blog to discuss the creation of a new radio brand Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:16:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Again, please note that these are rough notes so there'll be some typos which I'll try to tidy up later] Jeremy Hunt, shadow DCMS representative, was first up today, and talked about the uniqueness of radio and his radio history. He's certain that radio has a good future, although he knows ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/07/more-notes-from-the-radio-festival/ 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 ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/playlist-30-june-2009/ [Note that these are rough notes and might need a little tidying up later on, so apologies for typos and bad English.] Nicky Campbell kicked off proceedings as host with a few stories about his life in radio before introducing a very nice summary of radio in the last 12 months. The ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/notes-from-the-radio-festival/ 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 ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/one-last-download/ So, we’ve talked about the Idents we made for ITV2’s festival coverage. And we also posted them below for your perusal. Now, we’ve seen them in action up on the big screens and on the box. ITV’s coverage of the festival reached a peak of 358,000 people on the Friday ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/idents-at-the-isle-of-wight-festival-the-reckoning/ The new playlist is now out. The Killers – A Dustland Fairytale (27th July) Las Vegas’ finest headline Hard Rock Calling in London’s Hyde Park this Friday night, and headline the V Festival in August. This will be the next single from their ‘Day and Age’ album. Oasis – I Believe In All ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/playlist-23-june-2009/ Adrian Hieatt hasn’t been the same since he was called ‘cute’ by Bruno at last week’s red carpet premiere…..he now has an agent, eyeliner and dubious modelling deal. Another interesting thing to come out of this meeting of minds is that it has given us our most watched video on ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/bruno-or-should-that-be-bruno/ The Absolute Radio supported Tube Exits iPhone application is now available to download. The Lite version is free (Link opens in iTunes). http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/tube-exits-now-available/ Here's the moment that The Original Sinners won One Last Dream 2009 with Guitar Hero Greatest Hits. var MP7061 = new ARMP();MP7061.id = 7061;MP7061.render(); 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.  ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/one-last-dream-2009-we-have-a-winner/ 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 ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2009/06/kings-of-the-absolute-rodeo-by-david-lambert/