Unashamedly more Katie Melua than Kate Nash, Kate Walsh is the iTunes Queen, the Brighton-based Essex Girl whose second album, Tim's House, catapulted her to a vicarious, virtual stardom.

In the flesh, strumming an acoustic guitar that seemed built for a much bigger person, she proved to be ever so pretty, terribly posh (once upper-class girls went to finishing school in Switzerland; now they become songwriters in Brighton) and blessed with both a voice as sweet as Melua's and a decent way with a lovelorn if adolescent lyric.

The lights momentarily failed during her first attempt at Talk Of The Town.

Coupled with her inability to tune her guitar, these molehills in a range of mountains fazed her but when she settled herself, she was infectiously giggly, surprisingly droll ("We did sell beige and brown T-shirts but nobody bought them ... probably because they were beige and brown") and, on Fireworks capable of immersing herself in heartbreak.

There is much work to be done if she is to be the next Katie Melua but for every yin there is a yang and the brand new As He Pleases had sufficient depth to suggest that she does not have to be the next Sandi Thom.