After touring five countries in support of her debut, Alright Still, Allen admits she’s “slightly bored”, adding on her Myspace blog, “Life is weird at the moment. Is it really important to break America? If it is I have to write my life off for the next 9 months, playing the same gig answering the same questions to different journalists and such. It’s either that or I could go home, sit on my boyfriend’s sofa for a bit, then write a new album. What d’you reckon?”

Hmm. This does not bode well for the show I’m seeing in two days in Atlanta at The Loft. Perhaps, a Top 20 debut in the US charts will reinvigorate her.