Daniel Boys at Wilton Music Hall - 17th June 2010

Daniel Boys is a great west end performer. The voice is pure and quite lovely. He has a personality that is warm, cheerful and natural. The WMH is a wonderful setting and Daniel came on to the stage to rapturous applause and began the set with title track from his CD "So Close". His voice seems very to come very easily and he seems very relaxed even though his great friend and musical director Doug White was missing from the band.

The set proceeded with further tracks from the CD and some other tracks that Daniel appears to have discovered on YouTube. The track "Runaway with me" is quite lovely and require great acting skills as well as the singing voice and this is pulled off with ease by Daniel.

In between the songs Daniel tells stories and chats to the audience with some ease but there is a shyness that comes across. He tends to ramble while telling the stories and quite a few times this resulted in something inappropriate being said. This is by no means a fault though and only adds to the whole charm of the evening.

The ballads follow one after the other, I Hope You Dance, They don't make glass slippers and Annie's Song are all beautifully sung (he wasn't known as Ballad Boys for nothing). The guest performer the unbelievably talented Julie Atherton performs the charming and witty Taylor, the latte boy with her usual perfect comic timing. Daniel then returns to the stage and they perform As long as you're mine from Wicked.

The evening finishes with two more tracks from his CD, the Michael Buble song Everything which although not better than the original, certainly holds it own. The set finishes with the beautiful and haunting Lullaby, with just the voice and piano. This is a man with great talent and will hopefully over the next few years will become a household name well at least within the west end!