Betty, the Werewolves and Heathcliff

The latest album by Betty and the Werevolves, Tea Time Favourites, contains a song inspired by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The track number 9 is Heathcliff:

  9. Heathcliff

Betty And The Werewolves are Laura McMahon on Vox/Guitar, Helen Short on Guitar/ Vox/Keyboards, Emily Bennet on Bass/vox and Doug McFarlane on drums. Formed in 2007 and are three girls and one boy from London and Cambridge who whoop and howl through the night as their sweetly sung melodies collide with glitter-struck punk guitars. Taking inspiration from luminary lycanthropes Virginia Woolf and Grandma Wolf, they sing ditties about falling in love with David Cassidy and strange encounters on night buses, shouting all the while and scuffing up their party shoes

Página 12 (Argentina) confirms the band's tribute to Emily Brontë's novel:

El toque demencial fue buscado: “Queríamos que el álbum sonara como una reunión de té con una tía loca que sirve tacitas de gin en su porcelana más adorable mientras la rodean gatos, libros, tortas... Ella es Betty”, definió la banda para un medio brit. No sin antes aclarar que sus lyrics están influenciados por literatos de la talla de Emily Brontë (de hecho, una de las canciones se llama “Heathcliff”...), John Keats o T.S. Eliot. (Guadalupe Treibel) (Microsoft translation)

Categories: Music, Wuthering Heights