Beth Ditto: ‘We got too comfortable, but everyone’s awake now’

Bold, outspoken and punkily positive, Beth Ditto is going solo with her first album since leaving Gossip. She talks to Craig McLean about Trump, tolerance and reasons to be cheerfulOn the stage at a small London venue, Beth Ditto is dabbing away sweat and entertaining the rabid faithful. “Gossip is over, nobody’s mad, well, some people are…” riffs the former frontwoman with the American trio who shot to global fame 10 years ago with the turbo-charged gay rights anthem St