LITTLE Boots’s debut albums Hands — a selection of melodic and synth-based mini-symphonies — rightly saw the pint-size performer top the BBC’s Sound of 2009 poll.

Ten years on, the Blackpool-born and LA-based singer-songwriter — aka Victoria Hesketh — is back in town to perform that very album for a one-off celebration.

It's an 18-track odyssey which culminates in a mass stage invasion.

Dressed in a Bjork-lite silver dress with super-sized shoulder pads, New in Town kicks off a set which is a run-through of the album in track order. The buzz is of an audience very much onside as they clap and sing along.

An hour whizzes by, with the duet Symmetry a highlight — even with the Human League’s Phil Oakley missing — while penultimate album track Hearts Collide closes the first set.

Then Hesketh, in a vibrant yellow dress and solo on classical piano goes, by her own admission, a bit Lady Gaga on No Breaks. But then she performs a cover of Kate Bush’s Running up that Hill which is emotionally stark and moving.

The band return for a run-through of her newer material and it’s here that Hesketh gets the enthusiastic response she's after, especially as she reveals she’ll work on a new album in 2020.

For Shake, the last song of the night, she calls on everybody to join her onstage and what starts as a trickle becomes a flood.

In her own words music is the cure and dancing is the remedy and while it takes the audience a while to get there, by the end the room's in rapture as confetti cannons explode, smoke bubbles blow and the stage and floor bounce exuberantly.

If Little Boots can bottle what she has at the end of the night and record it, next year she’s bound to be onto a winner and she'll be more than welcome to strut her stuff again.