Beth Ditto review – a joyous comeback

Omeara, London
Pop has been duller without former Gossip singer Beth Ditto’s outspoken politics and powerhouse voiceIf ever there was a good time for a “fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas” to return to the fray of pop music, it feels like now. This was how Beth Ditto used to disarmingly describe herself in her mid-00s heyday when, as lead singer of the band Gossip, she pushed herself, and her body, to the forefront of attention, appearing naked on the covers of NME and Love ma