Every successful artist reaches a tipping point when they realise all the hard work has paid off.

Judging by Courtney Barnett’s reaction to the sold-out crowd on the first date of her UK tour, Friday night in Brighton may have been it.

The show came the same week her first album proper Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit was released.

But fans were already singing along to album track Depreston, and even forming a moshpit much to her amazement.

Her unique selling point is her skill in creating the poetical out of the mundane - breakthrough single Avant Gardener described an asthma attack she had while clearing her front yard.

This eye for detail has continued on the new album. Depreston mentioned the $23 saving from buying a perculator rather going out for coffee, while set opener Elevator Operator described a woman whose “hair is pulled so tight you can see her skeleton”.

The grungey guitar histrionics which characterised her debut EP were dialled back allowing her lyricism to shine through the simple guitar/bass/drums set-up.

There was no encore to the short sharp set, but after a closing salvo made up of History Eraser, Avant Gardener, the brilliantly titled Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party and recent single Pedestrian At Best there really was no need.