Album review: Gossip - Music For Men
Three years between records. It’s just enough time to build up friendships with supermodels, helm a Guardian column, be revered and be reviled – if you’re Beth Ditto. Gossip 's last album, ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ – you may...
Live Review: Gossip
"If the kids wanna come over the barrier,” a Lycra-clad Beth Ditto informs a worried-looking security guard from the stage, “Just let ’em!” To be honest, you’d expect nothing less from Ditto, high priestess of the most catholic...
The Gossip
If there’s one thing you can’t accuse modern-day feminist firecracker, punk-blues polemicist and human dance dynamo Beth Ditto of, it’s clock-watching. Or is it? “How long until The Stooges come on?” gasps the pink-sequinned one, wiping...
The Gossip
So, Beth Ditto in 2008. Is she a super-subversive riot grrrl heroine bravely infiltrating the mainstream, boldly taking her ideals to a forum larger than a few fanzine-reading fuckwits? Or an ultra sell-out who’s happily traded all them...
The Gossip
With all the surrounding body politics chatter it’s sometimes too easy to forget that The Gossip are a band still surfing a pop singles quality wave rivalled only by Girls Aloud. Punkier and glammer than its predecessors, ‘Jealous Girls’...
The Gossip
What a shame that, despite being thoroughly fantastic and having among their number the most colourful rock diva this side of a glowstick factory, The Gossip bring out the precious indie idiot in people like no other band. So you knew about them...
The Gossip/Bonde Do Role/Pre/The Violets:...
Cool. That ghostly substance that won’t be pinned down. Some people say cool is an attitude. Some say it’s just a trick of the light – a mating game that’s no more than the sum of its artfully-dishevelled parts. And they’re both wrong....
The Gossip
We’ve been drowning beneath broadsheet articles on Portland princess Beth Ditto for some time now and you’ve been dancing to this for six months, but now’s the time The Goss go global. With any luck, this will fly into the Top 10, thus...
The Gossip: Carling Academy, London, Sunday...
Members of bands please note: the way you interact with the audience at your gigs can make or break you. Many an asymmetrical-haired, Atkins-dieted Lou Reed worshiper has forsaken witty onstage banter for incomprehensible murmurs and...
The Gossip: Standing In The Way Of Control
Soul: everyone likes to think they’ve got it. Being told you don’t have soul is worse than being told you’re the smelliest dullard in the world and that you look like the offspring of Johnny Borrell and Courtney Love. Soulless is mundane....
