Playlist: 7th October

07Oct

The playlist is out now.

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Daughtry – What About Now (01/07/08)
American rock band from North Carolina. You may have heard this track recently on The X Factor – its been used several times in recent weeks. The track originates from Daughtry’s self-titled debut album and was a big hit in the U.S last year.

The Big Pink – Dominoes (07/09/09)
Duo from London who won an NME Award for “best new band” earlier this year (following in the footsteps of Glasvegas, who won it the year before them). The song has also been used recently on the advert for X-Box. The band support Muse on their UK Arena tour throughout November.

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Posted by carrie on October 7, 2009

Radio Days 2009 by Adam Bowie

05Oct

Recently Clive Dickens and I separately presented to audiences in Stockholm and Copenhagen as part of annual Scandinavean Radio conference series called Radio Days. The presentation detailed our metamorphosis a year ago, and what we’ve been doing since.

Our very own Geoff Lloyd also presented in Oslo and Copenhagen. Other presenters in Scandinavea included Global’s Nick Piggott, Media UK’s James Cridland (who both demoed the Pure Sensia), Nik Goodman and James Stodd. There were also a couple of American guests and plenty of local presenters.

While some of these slides will be familiar to asiduous readers of the Onegoldensquare blog, there are some new facts and figures buried within that we’ve not previously talked about.

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Posted by adam on October 5, 2009

Standing in for Eddy… by Simon Mundie

05Oct

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So as Ed draper celebrates a second week of being married, it falls to me to have the honour of presenting sport on the best breakfast show in the UK- an honour and a privilege! Never before have I leapt out of bed at 4am with such gusto.

Anyway, besides reading bulletins, I get to produce the sport podcast- a beautifully crafted addition to anyone’s day and An Absolute must for anyone who really wants to be at the cutting edge of the wonderful world of sport.

As per usual this week, Russ and I will be taking a close look at all the top sport stories, including of course this weekend’s England match- which will ONLY be shown on the internet- a first for sure, and a glimpse of the future?

But that’s not just it, we’re also asking that wonderful question: “who is The Greatest?”

Monday’s podcast asked who is the Greatest ever Premier League player- Russ W plumping for a certain Ryan Giggs- while tomorrow we ask who is the greatest footballer of all time? Pele, Maradona… all the usual suspects are bound to be in the frame. But it won’t just be football this week, we’ll also be looking at sport across the spectrum… a fresh list each day to get your teeth into. Sport Geek heaven.

If you have an opinion to share, it would be most appreciated… the best place to get your thoughts out and into the public domain is to go to the forum here: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/football/ to give us some tasty podcast fodder. Cheers!

Simon

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Posted by adam on October 5, 2009

Absolute Radio – One Year On by Charlotte Burgess

02Oct

One of the wonderful things about growing one year older is that it invites you to reflect upon what you have achieved over the course of that year. Many may face this period with apprehension, as they struggle to compound the milestones that complete the block. However, the difference with a brand is that you have most of your activity documented in some form or other. Therefore, when you begin to piece the jigsaw together you are left with a tapestry rather like the one below.

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In our first year, we’ve won four Sony Awards, hosted more than 100 live music sessions, and broadcast live from the Isle of Wight, V Festival and Hard Rock Calling. We’ve brought listeners sets from Blur, Elbow, Kings of Leon, signed Dave Gorman and Frank Skinner, and even had Madness perform at our birthday party in the middle of Regent’s Street. And those are only the highlights.

So whilst we may only be one year old, we think we’ve achieved a hell of a lot in that time. And we shall look forward to the future with ambition and zeal, hoping that our achievements will be like wrinkles, and increase with age.

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Posted by adam on October 2, 2009

The First Hour on dabbl by Anthony Abbott

02Oct

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Last night saw another landmark event to come out of One Golden Square during Absolute Radio’s first birthday month… and I’m not even talking about Florence + the Machine’s fantastic Absolute Radio Session at Abbey Road.

At 7.00pm, the UK’s newest radio station took to the online airwaves, and on DAB digital radio in London.

Absolute Radio’s very own music programming expert, Tim Vernon, tells me that dabbl listeners (dabblrs?) couldn’t have picked a better hour of music to kick things off with. He was very impressed, so give yourself a pat on the back if you voted for one of these songs! A few of us who were still in the office at 7 o’clock listened on with pride, and a glass of bubbly, as the first song came on. Here’s the list:

Livin’ On A Prayer (Zurich 2000)
Bon Jovi

Grounds For Divorce (V Festival 2009)
Elbow

22 (V Festival 2009)
Lily Allen

American Idiot (Abbey Road 2009)
Green Day

Comfortably Numb (Berlin 1990)
Pink Floyd

Come As You Are (New York 1993)
Nirvana

Best Of You (Los Angeles 2006)
Foo Fighters

Foxy Lady (Isle Of Wight 1970)
Jimi Hendrix

Clocks (Isle Of Wight 2006)
Coldplay

Born To Run (London 1975)
Bruce Springsteen

Chelsea Dagger (V Festival 2007)
The Fratellis

So, that was hour one, day one of dabbl. The listeners voted and, love it or hate it, Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ will go down in radio history as being the first song played on dabbl. The beauty is, you can influence how things go from tonight. Start voting now, as anything you vote for during the day will count towards that first hour from 7pm. dabbl is on-air, playing the songs you have voted for, every day from 7pm-6am. If you missed it last night, you can get a taste of how dabbl sounds on the website now. If you voted and listened last night, tell us what you think of dabbl so far.

Go on, have a little dabbl.

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Posted by adam on October 2, 2009