It's a bold move for a musician to implement a reinvention, complete with change of name, after having relatively recently achieved commercial recognition.

But Beth Jeans Houghton, now working under the moniker Du Blonde after just one album as her previous incarnation, seemed determined to move on with her new project.

Anyone expecting any old favourites from that first album to be slyly slotted into the set were to be disappointed.

That said, while the sound of Du Blonde is much more straightforward rock than the arch burlesque pop of before, singer Houghton is still writing the lush vocal hooks and maintaining the spirit of experimentation of her earlier work.

Although the new songs were punkier and suited the tangy air of the Green Door Store, there was subtlety there too – primarily referencing surf-rock, there were brief dalliances with ska and disco, as well as a couple of huge, shameless and brilliant power ballads straight from the world of 1980s glam rock.

The strength of the new material was highlighted by a cover of Pixies' Where Is My Mind? sounding a little superfluous and incongruous in what felt like an established set.

Four stars