Danny & the Champions of the World
Danny & the Champions of the World, a heartland rock and soul band, will make their Wickham Festival debut on Friday 1st August. Formed in London during the summer of 2007 by Danny George Wilson, the band have since released seven studio albums and two live albums. In 2016, they dominated the inaugural UK Americana Awards, winning UK Artist of the Year, UK Album of the Year for What Kind of Love and UK Song of the Year for Clear Water. Danny is instrumental in the London movement “Neckerchief Rock” alongside Radio London DJ Robert Elms, they regularly put on events at local pubs and venues.
“A fabulously creative and engaging 40 minutes of a band at their peak and a songwriter reaching new heights of communication”
9/10 AmericanaUK
“An absolutely fantastic album – a contender for Record Of The Year”
Robert Elms (BBC Radio London)
“The people arrived out of nowhere and they danced and sang along all night…they blew us away. It was without doubt a night to remember, impossible to forget. It was beyond what any rock and roll band should rightfully expect”
Danny George Wilson
