31 July: So Tough! presents Paddington DC live at Debaser

On friday we're back for another special at Debaser and this time we have an amazing band with us. Paddington Distortion Combo, or Paddington DC for short, will grace the stage at about 23. Paddington DC is one of Carl Olssons (Bear Quartet, Paper) many solo projects and you can expect an excitingly varied show as he keeps changing the direction of the music and curiously moves between electronic compositions and uptempo melancholic vocal pop. Absolutely beautiful DIY! Afterwards there will be lots of dancing to everything from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart to Orange Juice and Supremes played by the So Tough! Sound system and in the beergarden Katja Ekman & Friends will play to those who need to grab some air (read smoke) and to snog. facebookevent

Mix for tonights No Nouvelle Vague special

To get everyone into the mood for tonight's club we thought we should share our current cover crushes. Some fantastic, some ridiculous and at least one which makes us wonder what the hell were they thinking, but all better than the rubbish put out by Nouvelle Vague.

(Sorry no download this time) Edit: Download here

No Nouvelle Vague

On the Sat July 25th we're doing a club that we're calling a No Nouvelle Vague night. We quite frankly hate the cover records Nouvelle Vague have put out. The Swedish press say they play "smooth bossanova covers", we say they play shite and are responsible for endless itunes after work-DJs. But instead of whining about it we figured we'd put on a night playing all of the original songs and show people how just what great songs Nouvelle Vague have destroyed. So please come. We'll start with the slower songs at 2300 and then play the rest and mix it up with other new indie pop (Summer Cats!) and maybe even stick in a few of our favourite cover songs (Pastels doing Suicide!) Facebook event These are the songs you can expect to hear: Depeche Mode - Master And Servant Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere Echo And The Bunnymen - All My Colors Simple Mind - The American Psychedelic Furs - Heaven Magazine - Parade Gary Numan - Metal Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi The Gogo's - Our Lips Are Sealed The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye The Police - So Lonely Echo And The Bunnymen - Killing Moon Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love Lords Of The New Church - Dance With Me Yazoo - Don't Go Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself Blondie - Heart Of Glass The Wake - O Pamela New Order - Blue Monday The Cramps - Human Fly Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead The Sound - Escape Myself Heaven 17 - Let Me Go Visage - Fade To Grey Blancmange - Waves Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough Tuxedomoon - In A Manner Of Speaking The Clash - Guns Of Brixton P.I.L. - (This Is Not A) Love Song Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck The Sisters Of Mercy - Marian XTC - Making Plans For Nigel The Cure - A Forest Modern English - I Melt With You The Undertones - Teenage Kicks Killing Joke - Psyche The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning + a few more they've covered live and on limited edition releases

Playlist from the Post-Punk Special with DJ NoLeksellOut

Thanks to everyone who came! Retro was packed and an amazing crowd did their best to keep up to the most beautiful post-punk ever played. Our guest Joakim crouching behind his double cassette player with his catalogued box of cassettes with rare and unreleased tracks (Broder Daniel!) was a sight we'll never forget. Click through for the playlists

DJ NoLeksellOut played (Sorry we lost the pen and don't have all the titles): Associates - Paper House Broder Daniel - Once (Demo) Yvonne - Crash With Me (Demo) Felt - My Face Is On Fire Magazine - Definitive Gaze (Live) Teardrop Explodes - This Mortal Coil - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - New Order - Round + Round Jacobs Mouse - Wah! Buzzcocks - Raisons D’etre Human League - A Certain Ratio - Wedding Present - Cattle And Cane Scars - They Came And Took Her Josef K - Only Fun In Town The Sound - Hunters + Collectors - Talking To A Stranger Nightingales - Idiot Strength Joy Division - SHadow Play (Live) Fall - Rowche Rumble Happy Mondays - Wire - Our Swimmer Wall Of Vodoo James White & The Contortions - Flip Your Face Flipper - Get Away Tuxedomoon - Dark Companion Mekons - Ever Been In A Riot Birthday Party Cabaret Voltaire - Message Is Recieved London Underground Tones On Tail - Ok This Is The Pops Pil - Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul Part 2 Skids Virgin Prunes - Aztec Camera - We Could Send Letters My Bloody Valentine The The Spizz Energy Monochrome Set That Petrol Emotion - Belly Bugs ReZillos Chameleons - Second Skin Daniel played (Can't really recall playing so many songs but that's what my notes say...): Cabaret Voltaire - Kino (12'' Remix) The Sound - I Can't Escape Myself A Witness - Camera Scritti Politti - Asylums in Jerusalem Use No Hooks - Do The Job Scritti Politti - Bibbly-O-Tek Essential Logic - Fanfare In The Garden The Slits - Shoplifting McTells - Cat Factory Floor - Francis Francis Palais Schaumburg - Wir bauen eine neue Stadt The Fall - Hey! Luciani Bogshed - Six To One And Likely Delta 5 - Colour 23 Skidoo - Vegas el Bandito Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi Is Dead James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself Josef K - Endless Soul Manicured Noise - Faith Cure - It's Not You Gang Of Four - Return The Gift Bush Tetras - Can't Be Funky Vic Godard & The Subway Sect - Ambition Wire - Dot Dash A Certain Ratio - Do the Du Swell Maps - Read About Seymour The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself Stockholm Monsters - National Pastime Kleenex - Ü Josef K - Endless Soul The Fall - C.R.E.E.P. The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods Pere Ubu - Modern Dance Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business Fire Engines - Candyskin Suicide - Ghost Rider

Pastels!

Post-Punk Special! DJ-set : NoLeksellOut (Dipper/Tempo)

Nu är det dags för en Post-Punk special tycker vi efter att ha sett den bitvis utmärkta BBC dokumentären Do It Yourself - The Story Of Rough Trade Vi gräver fram våra Metal Urbain, Gang of Four, Au Pairs, Public Image Ltd, Delta 5, Wire, Joy Division, the Fall och Slits skivor, skruver upp basen till 11 och dansar oss svettiga i källaren. Så kom och lek med oss! Som gäst har vi bjudit in Jocke från bandet Dipper och från vårt favorithäng Tempo som under namnet DJ Noleksellout på en dubbel kassettdäckare(!) kommer att bjuda på allt från skotsk post-punk till Yvonne demos We saw the very cool BBC documentary on Rough Trade and decided to do another Post-Punk special. Our guest will be Noleksellout from the band Dipper and our favorite hangout Tempo. He'll be playing on a double cassette deck and it will be totally awesome! So please come along and dance with us! facebook event The song So Tough! took it's name from!