And now, for your Thursday “Holy Crap I Wish I Was There” dance with dejection, here’s Arkansas kids-made-good Beth Ditto and Gossip blowing the roof off the dump on opening day of the 65th Cannes Film Festival yesterday, in what might be the most amazing place for a concert ever seen this side of Rock and Roll Heaven. Gossip was filming a piece for the French TV show Le Grand Journal.

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BONUS: … with special guest star Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed as his current alter-ego, General Aladeen from his new film “The Dictator”.

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