Bizarre facts

• He hosted a very poor student radio show for a while. It included possibly the worst joke ever plus the most bizarre selection of music ever heard on legal British radio. And that includes John Peel.
  
• Before entering the world of journalism, he was once an estate agent. Well, he helped sell one house, anyway. It was a team effort, OK?
  
• He once watched Coldplay perform in a pub.
  
• He once appeared on early nineties kids ITV show 'Ask Oddie'. He wore a Young Ornithologists Club T-shirt and asked a question about fox hunting. This duty was carried out under duress.
  
• He has touched Michael Stipe's head. Stipe was not amused.
  
• He is possibly the only person on the planet who doesn't really hate any type of music. He even likes post Peter Gabriel Genesis!
  
• At the height of Britpop, he took part in an ultimately pointless debate to argue that Oasis were better than Blur. He won.
  
• He interviewed irreverent satirist Mark Thomas for a tinpot GWR radio station. Twice during the interview the power failed due to a storm but soldiering bravely on he still managed to gather enough material for about… 20 seconds of decent audio.
  
• In Cardiff, he somehow ended up at a Stereophonics backstage party for the families of the band.
  
• He cried like a small child in a Netherlands Irish Pub when Manchester United won the European Cup in 1999.
  
• He once hit Jimmy Saville. This is no joke. He was in his push chair at the time, mind you. Sir James quite innocently tried to enquire how the young DannyG was. The ensuing slap was a taste of things to come.