Betty Curse

This is the debut album from Liverpool’s Megan Burns, otherwise known as Betty Curse. The 20 year old has enjoyed a glittering career as an actress ' she played 'Hannah’ in '28 Days Later’, the dark but genial gothic zombie thriller ' and won an award at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in 'Liam’, the Jimmy McGovern adapted movie.

Perhaps it’s fitting then that she’s marketing herself as the new female figurehead for all goth fans and brings us her fledgling single on this album, 'Girl’ ' an authentic crack at Cure-esque Alt pop rock.

Her album’s been described as 'punk pop sweetmeat laced with poisonous revenge', which gives a fairly accurate portrayal of where this record’s pointed providing you have any idea of what 'sweetmeat’ is. Once of course you look it up, you’ll realise it’s a 'sweetened delicacy, such as a preserve or pastry’.

Well punk rock it is, with influences abound from The Cure, Velvet Underground and maybe even a slice of The Lemonheads, such as on 'Met On the Internet’. A sweetened delicacy maybe not so much, though, laced with poisonous revenge is a bit more apparent with the usual gothic overtures and opposingly edged themes, for instance 'Beautiful Together’ and 'Excuse All the Blood’.

She clearly has the talent to carry a stage and the niche she’s found will likely spell her success in the future. It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of punk rock, but if you’re fourteen, angry at the world and find that rebelling into a convention is curiously something you’re interested in, then look no further, Betty Curse is the answer to the music player you painted black last week.