So, it's the longest day of the year this weekend, and to mark the occasion Xfm is staging its longest ever breakfast show. The Xfm All Day Breakfast will see breakfast show hosts from Xfm in London, Manchester and Scotland - Alex Zane, Mike McClean and Julyan Sinclair respectively - each presenting a 24 hour edition of their show from 6am tomorrow, during which they will air live sets from one of eight special gigs taking place in London.
Among the guests due to join Zane on the London All Day Breakfast are Jimmy Saville, Debbie McGee, Trevor & Simon, Pat Sharp, Timmy Mallett, Chesney Hawkes, a paranormal investigator, a death metal vocal coach, a hide and seek specialist, a chef, an author and "a man who crossed the channel in a bath" (which I'm assuming is our good friend Tim FitzHigham, unless someone else has crossed the English channel in a bath recently).
There'll be themes too, with Zane planning a costume change each hour, while McClean will have a theme and record breaking attempt for each hour of his show, which I'm told will include Manchester Hour, New Year's Eve Hour, Naked Hour and attempts for the Most Eggs Held In One Hand, Most Snails On The Face, Most Star Jumps In A Minute records.
Anyway, enough blatant Xfm plugging - you can tune in on 104.9FM in London, 97.7FM in Manchester, 105.7 and 106.1 FM in Central Scotland - or via your telly or the web. The special London gigs are as follows...
One Night Only @ The Barfly doors 6am, onstage 8am
Mystery Jets @ The Borderline:
doors 9am, onstage 11am
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly & Sam Isaac @ The Fly:
doors 10am, Sam Isaac on 11.30, Get Cape on 12.30
Paul Weller &The Rifles @ Koko:
doors 1 pm, Rifles 2pm, Weller 3pm
Feeder & Brandon Steep @ ULU doors 4pm, BS 5pm, Feeder 6pm
Guillemots & Wild Beasts @ Union Chapel doors 7pm
Primal Scream + Eddy TM DJing @229 doors 10pm, PS on midnight
The Young Knives, + John Kennedy and Jon Hillcock DJing @ 100 Club
TYK on 3am