** Projected to stardom with a memorable Jools Holland appearance and a stunning single, Put Your Records On, Corinne Bailey Rae seemed to be emerging as a burgeoning global superstar in 2006.

However, this concert, rescheduled from last October, was an underwhelming spectacle, as much a result of the recording industry's star-making regime than the artist herself. There is no question that Bailey Rae is a likeable performer, with a great voice and some interesting, genre-crossing ideas. Yet everything about this presentation seemed hurried and incomplete.

The eight-piece band were polished but often superfluous. Though her voice is soulful, it is not particularly powerful, and works best when less rather than more instrumentation is applied. A case in point is one of the better songs, No Love Child, which started as a pretty piano ballad but turned into a messy gospel crescendo with backing vocalists, brass and drums competing for attention.

The pacing of the set was also unfathomable. With a shortage of great songs and a surplus of filler, it made for a run of mediocre, mid-tempo material, punctuated by a lumpy cover of Jimi Hendrix's Long Hot Summer Night.

The three highlights of her debut album were saved until the finale: the Isley Brothers' inspired Like a Star, the aforementioned Put Your Records On and Choux Pastry Heart. There was also encouragement in that the new songs sounded more intriguing than many of the album tracks - but a strategic rethink is surely required.

For now, Bailey Rae appears both fazed by and uncomfortable with the perhaps unexpected demands and scale of touring a three-million-selling record.