The GOSIP is an American group of music originating in the Arkansas. Founded with Olympia, in the State of Washington in 1999, it is now established with Portland in the Oregon. The group is composed of three members: Beth Ditto with the Song, Brace Paine with the Guitar and Hannah Blilie with the battery, which replaced at this station Kathy Mendonca, which plays from now on in the group Soliah Shawcross. They were mainly influenced by the feminism and the groups of " Riot girrrl ", even if the group is not defined thus. In 1999, the group signs with the independent label K Records which produces their first recording éponyme: The GOSIP Since this event, Beth Ditto multiplied the public confessions, as much on its weight that on its sexuality.

Their next recording was their first album That' S not what I Heard, carried out by the label Kill Rock Star on January 23rd, 2001. One year later, on May 6th, 2003 their second album Movement appeared in the vats. Two months after the recording of their first album live Undead in NYC, on September 9th, the threshing-machine Kathy Mendonça announces that it leaves the group in order to continue a career as midwife. She will be replaced by Hannah Blilie

Discography

Albums

• That' S Not What I Heard , Kill Rock'n'roll Stars (2001)
• Arkansas Heat , Kill Rock'n'roll Stars (2002)
• Movement , Kill Rock'n'roll Stars (2003)
• Undead in NYC , Dim Mak (2003)
• Standing in the Way off Control , Kill Rock'n'roll Stars (2006)

Individual

• Red Hott , K Records (2000)
• Real Ramming Split EP with Tracy + the Plastics, Dim Mak Records (2005)
• Standing in the Way off Control Remix 12" EP with the Tiger, Kill Rock'n'roll Stars (2005)
• Listen Up! Kill Rock'n'roll Stars (2006)

Other facts

• the singer Beth Ditto, homosexual, is very committed for the lesbian cause.

• at the end of 2006, the magazine English rock'n'roll New Musical Express train ( NME ) named Beth Ditto " The coolest personality of the world of the rock". The NME also named the singer - who is obese - in the " category; The sexiest personality of the année" at the time of the ceremony of the NME Awards 2006. The price was however decreed with the mannequin Kate Moss.
• At the end of May 2007, Beth Ditto posed naked with the one of weekly musical magazine English NME, the hairy armpits and the buttock flanked of a trace of lipstick and surrounded of the slogan " KIS My Ass". The singer, icon " king size" because of a wrapped physique that she assumes completely, benefitted from it to carry out battle against the dictatorship of the thinness. According to it, the " zero size celebs" , the celebrities skinny persons like Victoria Beckham or Paris Hilton, are responsible for the obsession of the women for the thinness. Other persons in charge, gay men of the world of the mode. Always according to Beth Ditto, these homosexual very influential in the haute couture pushes the mannequins to avoid the forms to make their toys of them. " If there' S anyone to blames for size zero, it' S not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry who want thesis women ace frauds " , explains the singer in the last number of the NME published in May 2007.

External bonds

• Official site
• '' The GOSIP '' on MySpace