Anna Calvi was ferocious in Birmingham last night

However, this wasn’t the case in Birmingham, where she played to about a third of the capacity of the Town Hall.

Not that you’d notice, given her restless, feral energy and steely commitment to delivering her bombastic, Bowie-indebted gothic rock with a fiery intensity. Playing songs from her third – and best – album, Hunter (released earlier this year), and her eponymous debut, Calvi entirely neglected her critically-acclaimed second record One Breath.

However, the show and setlist felt completely seamless and completely airtight. You were never left questioning the omission of some of her more well-known material (“Suddenly”, “Eliza” etc). Much in the same way that you didn’t miss “I Wanna Be Your Dog” when Iggy Pop did the Post Pop Depression tour, it was the blend of the chosen material that made the show so captivating.

The songs from the new album were the ones that really stood out. The monstrous groove of “As A Man” and the ferocious “Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy” were leavened with the sweetness of “Swimming Pool”, and the haunting, Lynchian “Alpha” (the chorus of which sounds curiously like the infamous bridge of “SexyBack”).

She finished with the road-tested one-two of fan-favourite “Suzanne & I” and Suicide’s “Ghost Rider”. It’s completely fitting that she finished with a song from one of the most criminally underrated bands of all time, to a room that could have held triple its current capacity.

Anna Calvi is, herself, criminally underrated. She has made a powerful, raw and exquisite album filled with intelligent, sensitive and brave explorations of female sexuality, and queer identity – undoubtedly an ‘album of year’ candidate – yet still does not have the level of recognition she deserves. It’s a shame, of course, but what a privilege for the few hundred people in that Hall on a freezing night in Birmingham. It was a night to remember.