Beth Ditto's True Colors Are Beautiful; Plus "Creep"-y Video!

"Listen Up:" Murray Hill and NYC cable legend Robin Byrd flank rock roustabout Beth Ditto (who rules the world, thanks) at last night's True Colors concert afterparty. Genius!

Beth Ditto, the completely cool and lovely and out-lesbian lead singer of The Gossip is delightful. Last night at the afterparty which followed her band's performance as part of the True Colors tour at Radio City Music Hall (here in nifty NYC), Ms. Ditto was chatty, charming, adorable, game to meet fans and splash about gabbing with everybody in the house.

From the moment Ms. D arrived, she was sweetly posing for photos and meeting with fans. And she had brought her very nice Mom along, too. I snapped a bunch of pics of Beth with all kinds of festive New Yorkers; folks like the Village People's Randy Jones, cable TV legend Robin Byrd, drag queens galore, Logo staffers, and lots of great peeps from LifeBeat (the music industry's AIDS fundraising group) all whooped it up at the midtown joint LQ, and DJs Lina and Adam provided the tunes.

"What the hell are we doing here?" Amanda and Beth wanna know...

And above is a video of the super-impromptu performance in which the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer (armed with her ukelele) and Beth do a quickie duet of Radiohead's "Creep," with a special guest appearance from the legendary camp puppet celeb, Madame. Evidently, Madame swings sapphically too, as she and Ms. Ditto get rather frisky. Put that in the center square, yo!

Plus: Go to The Gossip's MySpace page to hear their brilliantly amazing cover of Wham's "Careless Whisper."  It's totally my Pride Week jam! GAY!!!

More fun, "Gossip"-y photos after the jump! Rock on Beth!

It takes a Village People! Beth Ditto and Randy Jones hang, and then compare equipment.

News Worthy: CBS News on Logo's fierce Chagmione Antoine and Ms. Ditto give good face; and the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer rocks out with her ukelele out. Twang!

Comments

[Chris Tuttle]

Great times!!!