Video: The Gossip - standing in the way of control

Live à la Knitting Factory de New York en 2005 Live à Glastonbury en 2007 Et il y a des tas d'autres vidéos live de ce genre sur TuTube . Attention les yeux ! Je crois que l'appellation "bête de scène" n'est pas usurpée pour qualifier Beth Ditto, la chanteuse du groupe anglais The Gossip . Beth, c'est une fille hors-normes. Icône de mode, obèse, homosexuelle, rock-star, relativement tarée... Elle s'est jetée dans la mare des conventions en Angleterre et ça fonctionne à tous [...]

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Today's Quick Mention: My wife's birthday is today! You don't have to send a gift or anything, but I do recommend you pick out a stranger, pretend they're Sarah (or Dill Dozer, if you prefer her TXRD name) and present them with a celebratory high five. For as long as I can remember, the Gossip have been the kind of act that I like to refer to as a singles band, which means that the albums never seem [...]

• The Gossip - Heavy Cross

USA dance punk trio Gossip hit Europe this summer promiting theri new album Music For Men which will be released June 22. 05/18 La Boule Noire, Paris, France 05/20 Electronic Beats @ Spring 9 Festival, Graz 05/21 Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany 05/22 Astra, Berlin, Germany 05/23 Electronic Beat Festival @ Ewerk, Cologne, Germany 05/24 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 05/27 Digital, Brighton, UK 05/28 Scala, London, UK [...]

Courtesy of the corporate weasels at Sony/Columbia, I got Gossip 's Live in Liverpool CD/DVD package in the mail last week, and I've been checking it out. My immediate short take (as per a discussion with our pal the incomparable Virgotex : If I was fifteen years old and deeply alienated and/or gay, I would absolutely love -- nay, lurve -- this band. Because they would be talking to me, powerfully and [...]

I heard that The Gossip show at Webster Hall was "life changing," so I'm starting the morning off with their hit tune, "Standing in the Way of Control." The band just released their first live CD/DVD Live at Liverpool earlier this week, which will give you an idea of just how "live changing" these shows are.

Can we still do this? Mad late, but hey, it's been busy with this and that. OK, 2007 wasn't a vintage year at all. But here are my Top Ten tracks. I try to keep to those released in 2007, but occasionally ya gotta make allowances for genius that just didn't reach my ears til this [...]

en rotation lourde direct sur mes oreilles, voilà ce que j'écoute en ce moment : Kennedy Your Mama Micky Green Oh! the Soft tigers Mr icecream the Gossip Standing in the way of control Nelson the (over) song [...]