Aussie rules

When Stella Donnelly played at Clwb Ifor Bach last week, she'd come a long way - both literally (from Australia all the way back to the country of her birth) and metaphorically (from her lounge in Fremantle, the unlikely makeshift studio in which she recorded her breakthrough EP Thrush Metal just last year, to another stage in a foreign venue). It might have been too much for some artists, but we were absolutely in the palm of her hand from the outset, often chuckling at her phrasing but also stunned into silence by 'Boys Will Be Boys'.