The Gossip: Classic or Dud?

King Boy i'm pretty sure you and Jordan S are exactly the kinds of people this behavior is intended to drive away

Missed headline: "Standing in the way of my lunch..."

King Boy i'm pretty sure you and Jordan S are exactly the kinds of people this behavior is intended to drive away

-- Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:36 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^People who hate dumb attention whoring?

Beth Ditto is basically Calum with a gunt.

it sounds like a made-up story.

beth d has made homophobic comments herself, no?

She was on some "bun dem chi chi man" shit last year, yeah.

"If there's anyone to blame for size zero, it's not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry and want these women as dolls. Men don't know what it feels like to be a woman and be expected to look a particular way."

but y'know, whatever.

Dumb attention whoring is what makes rock great!

^^^the reason nu rave happened

I hung out w/her for an hour or so. She was v annoying.

Nu-rave happened? I think that's something of an overstatement

Current TV had a mini-documentary last night about nu rave, and I've never hated the idea of music more.

Raw Patrick, when are you gonna get a gig as an indie 3AM Girl?

King Boy i'm pretty sure you and Jordan S are exactly the kinds of people this behavior is intended to drive away

Why the world doesn't want a fey synthpop fetishist like me, I'll never know.

You had your chance with nu-rave, stop complaining

No pretentious early 20th Century ideals of European triumphalism, no credibility

Raw Patrick, when are you gonna get a gig as an indie 3AM Girl?

I am having a game of Scrabulous w/the feller who invented the term nu rave. I'm winning.

beth needs a better backing band. perhaps the bellrays
-- electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:55 (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

lol i remember that band

Raw Patrick, when are you gonna get a gig as an indie 3AM Girl?

Which chubby singer carries around a bag of processed white sugar to snack from?

I can't speak for present-day rock superstar Beth, but I went up and talked to her after a show in 2003 or so and told her how much the band had meant to me personally, etc., and she was totally nice/polite/sweet about it. That's about all I ask out of my rock idols. So fuck the haters!

This sounds good:

Beth Ditto, Andy Rourke from The Smiths, Graham Coxon, Paul Weller and The Enemy are amongst the acts who have formed an indie supergroup called Crisis.

The charity of the same name has joined forces with Drinkaware to raise money to fight homelessness and alcoholism.

Also in the group are New Young Pony Club, Supergrass, Drew from Babyshambles, Ed Harcourt and Pearl Lowe.

that lineup makes me want to drink

The long awaited return of Pearl Lowe to music. Can we not get Daisy on it as well?

I'd like to (insert innuendo about drinking) Daisy Lowe, amirite guyz?

I heard her sing "Son of a Preacher Man" at karaoke once. She was good.

Daisy Lowe or Beth Ditto?

Beth Ditto.

i dig the gossip okay. they were good live. its so weird that guy from fugazi produced that record and its all big in england and shit.

it makes the six degrees of separation between like agnostic front and perez hilton really easy.

Just saw them here. Most enthusiastic audience of any show I've seen here, massive screaming and armwaving. BD had a bad cold and could hardly sing -- crowd pitched in, knowing all words to all songs.

Not as good as the room-melting show they put on two years ago (when BD didn't have a cold) and the sound was somehow wrong (so that e.g. the bass was lost in "Listen Up") but still worth leaving the house for.

Ditto seems like a very nice young woman.

New single "Perfect World" is out today. Currently listening on super crappy headphones, so I can't really decide whether I like it or not. New album in May.

It's a Xenomania production, BTW. Maybe I'm biased but it reminds me a bit of the stuff they did for Frank, only with more punch, perhaps? Definitely the "rockiest" thing they've ever done.

http://soundcloud.com/gossip_music/perfect-world

Just now heard this. Beth's voice sounds weirdly shaky during the verses, but I think it's a great song!

christ the new album's great.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/may/04/gossip-joyful-noise-album-stream

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/mar/19/beth-ditto-arrested

Looool. Beth ditto thinks she's on American google.

i'm all for ditto ruining the nights of redditors

This advert always made me lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdFiFGh2uDI