Battle of the Bands: Beth Ditto vs. Karen Orzolek

By: Olivia Doran

^{August 10, 2009}

Friends getting you down? If your friends are "busy", "sick", or "skint" (classic stock responses), you need a new circle. Need a new best mate? Left at a loose end on pay day weekend? This article is here to help.

Ok, so from a long list of possible celebrities, we've whittled it down to the final two essential gal pals to hit the town with: Who is going to be the chosen one: Gossip's Beth Ditto or Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O?

So we'll take the night from start to finish, presenting both our appealing new pals with different challenges and situations—which may test them to their very limit—to see just who would make the grade to accompany any one of our discerning readers for a night on the tiles.

Let's start with the basics: