Preview - Danny Bhoy at Birmingham Symphony Hall

Danny Bhoy is surprisingly cheerful about the fact that he's not all that well-known in Britain. "No-one really knows who I am here," he grins, happy not to be mobbed in the coffee shop, near to his flat.

The 34-year-old Scot has become a huge star over the past few years in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, where he spends a large part of each year touring.

"Last year I probably spent a total of less than a month in my own flat," he says. "But I really love it on the road. I always think I can't wait to get home, but then after a week I start to go stir-crazy in my flat.

"There's that great sense of anticipation when I'm packing a suitcase and getting ready to go somewhere. When I'm on the road I feel like I'm achieving something."

Bhoy, however, is a firm favourite among the nation's comedy-loving cognoscenti and will play Birmingham's Symphony Hall on Thursday (June 9).

He has certainly achieved much in the ten years or so he's been a professional stand-up. He took his first solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2001, in a tiny venue playing to 60 people.

But his greatest success has come through being invited to the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and on the strength of that, touring his show around Australia and New Zealand. It's hard graft, travelling to small towns in the back of beyond, but it's an effort that has paid off.

"Australia is a very rich market for comedy," he explains. "They're very comedy-savvy, and you can go to small towns and find really nice thousand-seater theatres that have been built by the council, and the audiences are very appreciative so it's a good thing to do."

Danny Bhoy fell into comedy by accident, although a highlight of his childhood was always the release of a new Billy Connolly video, which his family would gather round and watch together.

If you've never seen Danny Bhoy, take this chance to see him, before the UK catches up with Australia and he finally gets the audiences he deserves here too.