COLUMBIA
Cast your mind back to 2006 and chances are, if you were hanging around a student bar at the time, Standing In The Way Of Control would have been blasting out of the loudspeakers. And in singer Beth Ditto, indie had found itself a new LGBTQ+ icon, one with a powerhouse voice, as much at home in pop as rock. Gossip (or The Gossip, as they were then) should have been massive, but they somehow fell by the wayside, releasing just five albums (of which only two made the UK Top 40) before splitting in 2016.