Last night (Friday 8th March) Gossip were joined on stage by surprise guest Alison Moyet for a cover of Situation (by Yazoo) at the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival at Victoria Warehouse Manchester.
The performance was Gossip’s first UK show in four years and the global premiere of unreleased material.
CMAT was joined on stage by surprise guest John Grant for a performance of Where Are Your Kids Tonight? The first time the duo have ever performed the track live together.
Speaking to 6 Music’s Matt Everitt about about her performance with Alison Moyet, Beth Ditto of Gossip said: “I just need a second to think about what just happened. I got to be on the same stage as Alison Moyet […] I have to wrap my mind around it. We practised for so long. She came and rehearsed today and I was trying not to cry. I knew – I was like ‘I’m going to see her and I’m going to cry’ […] so I was trying to play it cool and I’m not good at playing it cool. In my mind I’d be like ‘how are you going to sing next to her?’
Speaking on stage during the performance, Beth Ditto said: “I have this huge [...] British part of my family, they’re my British family (I’m trying not to cry, why?) from Stoke-on-Trent. And they’re over there and my friend Amy - Amy, you alright duck, you alright? You alright? I'm not good at it but I try […] I’m looking over at her and she's waving and I'm like ‘stop it’! I can't take it - she's had a baby, that baby’s like seven [...] I can't even, I can't take it [...] I'm telling you, I've got a big old thing for Stoke-on-Trent, I don't know what it is. Even before the show about pottery, I already knew about the pottery! I already knew. I know that was y’all’s industry over there, I knew it! And when it came out I was like ‘Oh I know this already [...] I already know about the history of this’. I explored that Victorian folly that they call a castle there by myself, I was there, I've been there.”
Speaking to 6 Music’s Matt Everitt about performing Where Are Your Kids Tonight? with John Grant, CMAT said: “It was absolutely incredible. It was the best night ever. I can’t believe how many people were two-stepping […] we held hands the entire time, because I was very nervous actually […] we’ve actually never done it together, ever, not live, because we recorded everything seperately in the studio so that was literally the first time we sang it together.”
Photo credit: BBC Radio 6 Music
