Jingle Bell heralds Capital's live return.

95.8 CAPITAL FM IS HOSTING its most significant live music event in more than four years this week as part of what Global Radio chief executive Ashley Tabor is vowing will be two big station events held every year.

A total of 16 acts including Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna, Scouting For Girls and Will Young will perform at the inaugural Jingle Bell Ball at The O2 arena in North Greenwich this Wednesday, the first time the London station has staged a multi-artist event on this scale since the last Party In The Park took place in Hyde Park in 2004.

Tabor, whose group brought Capital owner GCap for #375m in August and has former Capital Radio group programming director Richard Park as its executive director, says Global plans to put on two major events every year "with a pure Capital hat on".

"We're going to do two London events a year; this is one of them," he says. "[The music industry] will know at two different points in the year there will be an event that they can get their heads around. They will know what's coming."

Tabor, who himself has a foot in the music industry overseeing Global Talent, whose interests ...