American singer songwriter Kate Bollinger stops in at The Louisiana on her debut UK tour. Or so I assume to be the case, not that I could see from the back. This was a gig of tall boyfriends passionately shielding their short girlfriends. At one point, impressively to the soundtrack of acoustic Americana, a woman in the crowd faints - live by the pit, die by the pit. At others, Bollinger is bemused at how distracted the crowd has become by the mention of Vale Street, the steepest in the UK. She has a fine voice and the songs fill the room, but at 45-50 minutes, it feels very much an abbreviated headline set, mostly drawn from her latest EP and a couple of new songs, both promisingly meeting the standard of the evening’s setlist. The highlight is very much her cover of Jacque Dutronc’s J’aimes Les Filles, which is always a tricky spot for an artist, but she brings her own distinct energy to it and it’s hard to begrudge. Bollinger promises to return later in the year with her band, and I do hope she does, with a few more songs in her arsenal ready to deploy by then.