She's already made a name for herself at Secret Garden Party, but this Friday Whitechapel singer-songwriter Bunny (alias 23-year-old film-maker Bea Martinez-Gatell) is playing her first ever London gig.

Dazed Digital: Your lyrics are hilarious and very personal. Are they drawn from real life?
Bunny: Definitely, which is going to be a bit scary when I have to play the songs in front of the people the songs are about! Actually, it started as a joke. I was sad about this boy, so I wrote a song about it, and everyone loved it, so after that every time a boy upset me I wrote another song.

DD: Give me a couple of examples of what the songs are about.
B: There was this one boy I met called Andrew [redacted], and he took me to the shop where he works which is called the Osterley Bookshop. It's in this beautiful disused tube station near Heathrow, and it's owned by the woman who took the photograph on the front of London Calling by the Clash, who also uses it as a darkroom. It's rock'n'roll literary heaven. So that's a happy song. But I also wrote one about a boy called James [redacted] - when I first got to London I got taken in by all the lovely art school boys and their skinny jeans and then I realised they were all a bit rubbish and pretentious.

DD: Who are your lyrical influences?
B: Helen Love, Jeffrey Lewis and, my favourite, Jonathan Richman. I'm going to be playing a cover of "Debbie Loves Joey" by Helen Love at the gig. And also a cover of "Anything But Love" by the Libertines.

DD: Oh dear, the Libertines?
B: [shouting] I love the Libertines! How can I do a gig and not do the Libertines? They're the reason I moved to London!

DD: When did you take up guitar?
B: Ten years ago - I did something really naughty so my parents sent me to America for the summer to stay with my very religious Jewish grandmother, and there was nothing to do there and I wasn't allowed to talk to boys, so I bought this guitar and learnt some chords. I still can't sing but I try to make up for that by being funny!

DD: And now you're recording an EP.
B: Yeah, it's really fun because I'd never been in a recording studio before. The best bit is recording the handclaps and the tambourines. But my favourite instrument is that one that makes the sparkly magic sound. I don't know what it's called.

DD: I know the one you mean, but I don't know what it's called either. Now, your Myspace name is "Bunny and the Hectograms" - does that mean you want to have a full band one day?
B: Yeah, I'd love to have a proper band like the Ramones and jump around the stage shouting.

DD: You're also a film-maker.
B: Film is what I mainly do. I'm working on an indie rock'n'roll musical. Everyone says they hate musicals but they don't really - it is a bit rubbish when people break into song for no reason, but there have been films which prove you can do songs in a subtle way. Look at The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle.

Bunny supports Smokey Angle Shades at the Inn on the Green in Ladbroke Grove on Friday.