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It has 1,700,000 listeners a week (RAJAR Q3 2021).įrom Sunday 5th February 2017, we introduced a Listen Again facility for the show via a Forgotten 80s section on the free Absolute Radio app for smartphone and tablet.
In October 2017, we introduced the Last Orders Sequence to end the programme each week, which features three tracks that hold some kind of connection, and are always taken from audience submissions.Ībsolute 80s is available nationwide on DAB digital radio on Freesat (channel 726), Sky Digital (channel 0200) and Virgin Media (channel 951) on mobile and tablet apps downloadable for free from your app store on your smart speaker ("play Absolute 80s") and via the Listen Live button on the official website.
A feature began in 2020 called Calling America, focusing on hits of the 80s from the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, and there is an active archive running on Spotify. Below you will also find links to archives on Spotify of Journeys To Glory, Didn't We Almost Have It All, When Will I Be Famous and The Nobody's Diary the four features we have run on the show that have allowed us to play hundreds of songs from outside the UK Top 40, as well as album tracks. The purpose of this blog is to act as a no-frills archive for the show's weekly setlists for people to visit after broadcast. At least half of the songs on each edition of the show are requested by the audience. Naturally, on a radio station that plays 80s music 24 hours a day, one is preaching somewhat to the converted, but nevertheless we do like to go that little step further. The show features the underplayed and the almost completely forgotten hits of the 80s, with the intention of rehabilitating the music of a decade that too many people are quick to scorn. It's a two-hour show and we start at 9pm.
When the radio station was discontinued by its parent company, I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to continue the programme as Forgotten 80s by Absolute 80s, and the first edition aired on Sunday 26th May 2013. This show is the successor to Q The 80s, which was a cult programme I was privileged to host on Q Radio across the UK from September 2010 to May 2013.