Danny Wallace

So it’s been a few months and things are going well on the Breakfast Show. And we just completed a radio first on the show… all in aid of WarChild.

A 100% Live Show – nothing pre-recorded, no buttons to push, no safety net… just LIVE music, LIVE guests, a LIVE audience, LIVE jingles, LIVE music beds and even LIVE ads!

We took over the legendary Shepherd’s Bush Empire and our line-up was amazing: Stereophonics as my house band, Paul Weller playing brand new material, Miles Kane, Tim Wheeler & Emmy the Great, Smith & Burrows, the awesome Tim Minchin and the wonderful Ross Noble… plus QuizFace: Live.

If you heard it and liked it, feel free to donate to WarChild at xfm.co.uk — and listen out for the unedited podcast and the repeat on Christmas Day at 3pm!

“The BRILLIANT new breakfast show” - The Sun

“Danny Wallace’s new show is funny, understated and just the thing if you don’t like shouty shows in the morning” - The Guardian

WINNER: The Pokes 2011 FUNNIEST PODCAST

Well, the new show has started every morning on Xfm, and with it comes a new weekly podcast…

The first one features many of our guests from week one – James Corden, Bradley Cooper, Noel Gallagher and Kasabian – and a couple of extras too…

You can subscribe here, if you fancy it!

If you’re anywhere near a copy of this month’s GQ magazine, check out the feature I wrote on my trip to Texas on the trail of Charlie Sheen…

I’ve been sitting on this news for a little while, but I’m excited to finally say that as of August 1st, I’ll be doing my best to wake up London and the rest of the world as the host of the brand new XFM Breakfast Show…

Actually, as of August 1st, I’ll just be doing my best to wake up.

It’s a thrill to join XFM once more – I had such fun doing my Saturday afternoon shows there with Rich a while back. This will be a whole new deal – on air from 6.30am to 10 every weekday, and with some big plans to boot. And I really hope you’ll be a part of it.

Doing a breakfast show has always been an ambition of mine – I’ve covered breakfast for X and elsewhere in the past and it’s a fantastic time to do a show – but to be able to do my own thing is exciting. I’ve huge respect for everyone off- and on-air at X and to broadcast overlooking Leicester Square each day will be ace. And it’ll be fun being a cheeky underdog. I want to make it an exclusive club that anyone’s allowed to join.

I really wanted to change things up a bit in 2011. More news on that and other projects soon. But this will be the biggest change. And I’m looking forward to it.

I’m going to buy new headphones.

Press Release here.

I never win awards.

And yet I won one!

The PPA’s Columnist of the Year award 2011, for my work in ShortList magazine.

I love writing the column every week, and I love ShortList, so I’m very, very flattered and honoured and proud.

Here’s a picture of me in the last ten seconds of sobriety.