Daniel Wesley

In the winter of 2008, for two night’s running, Daniel Wesley mounted the stage before a sold out crowd at Vancouver’s 1000 capacity Commodore Ballroom. The venerable concert hall has seen its share of local artists, but Wesley’s extraordinary two-night stand was something different; a grass roots event without precedent, based on the cyclonic success of an independently produced, windswept reggae-bomb called "Ooo Ohh". The most requested song of the year on powerhouse local radio king 99. 3 The Fox, "Ooo Ohh" is and always will be and solid-gold, no-shit, genuine phenomenon - the kind of thing that very, very occasionally cuts through all known conventions based on nothing more than it’s own mojo. Same goes for Sing + Dance, the breezy full-length it came from. “I don’t see it as the last song I’m ever gonna write that people are gonna like,” Wesley offers, some 18 months later. The soft-spoken 27 year-old singer-songerwriter tends to have a Zen-like disposition at the best of times, but with his recently completed new album - Wesley’s first with 604 Records – his composure is entirely justified. The self-titled album is a quantum leap for the industrious yo... more...