Debaser Malmö X-mas bash!

Come get a proper work out on the dance floor with us on x-mas day at Debaser! Do the tummy hop, the shake, the crusher, the indie kid pogo and the mashed potato or just hang with us in the bar and let us know what presents you'll be re-gifting this year.

Behind the decks we'll be joined by the maltese ponce Fredo, rare soul selector Lasse Bång and the girl with the unpronounceable name Ylwa Skywalker.

There are pre-sale tickets for this event so make sure to grab them while there are still some left. Queuing in this weather won't be fun.

Juldagsbaluns at Debaser

Debaser Malmö

Norra Parkgatan 2, 214 22 Malmö

Sat. 25 Dec. | 22-03 | 20 Years

120 kr + förköp på debaser.se, Folk å Rock + Tickster
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Last post from us before x-mas so Happy Holidays everyone! Be safe, dress warm and have a great weekend!

Guest Mixtape 08: So Tuff BRGR by Burger Records

"What are you doing here? This is a private girls only party!" from Garbo's Daughters debut cassette was the first we heard from Burger Records from Fullerton California. This was in January and since then we've been hooked - hooked like the Unpopular Boy getting hooked on nicotine just to get inside Popular Girl Who Sits And Smokes At The Bus Stop skinny jeans  - so we quickly ordered a bunch a tapes and started digging backwards and forwards through their catalogue, falling in love with Jaill, Apache, Audacity, Nobunny and Fever B whose song Pop Punk Love we even named our three day popfest after.

Sean and Lee described Burger Records as being "a rock n roll philanthropic quasi-religious borderline-cultish propaganda spreading group of suburban perma-teen mutants." and we can't really argue with that. And since our goal with these mixtapes is to spread the gospel and we really can't think of any other labels whose releases we've listened as much to this year we figured it's only fitting that we let the guys'n'gals at Burger do our last guest mixtape for 2010.

Hope you like it and if you do please head over to http://burgerrecords.webs.com/ and order a bunch of tapes and records and those awesome super sized I'm A Burger Girl/Boy-badges. We've been wearing ours since we got them and our love life hasn't been the same since! Also take a look at the Burger Facebook page as they put on awesome shows and movie nights all the time. Thanks guys for a great mixtape!

So Tuff BRGR by Burger Records
1. Davila 666 - Callejón
2. Miss Chain And The Broken Heels - Rollercoaster
3. Jaill - The Biggest Nugget Of Them All
4. The Pizazz - Ocean Liner
5. Fever B - Punk Pop Love
6. Gestapo Khazi - Open House
7. Cum Stain - Bachelor's Life
8. Todd Congelliere - Carlow Rd
9. Apache - Outside
10. Bad Sports - Why Say Don't
11. Audacity - Power Drowning
12. Cosmonauts - Neon Kids
13. Bombon - La Playa
14. Cleaners From Venus - Wivenhow Bells II
15. Bare Wires - Young Love
16. Dwight Twilley - Ten Times
17. Mmoss - Hedge Creeper
18. The Resonars - Riding Backwards
19. Nobunny - Monster Kiss
20. White Night - Dogface
21. Clive Tanaka Y Su Orquesta - Neu Chicago
22. Conspiracy Of Owls - A Silver Song

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Sex Beet, Friday Casuals and the playlist from Too Cute To Puke #02 at Tempo Bar & Kök

What a great chaos and fun filled week! Sex Beet and Jerry Tropicano each played an ace gig and we were transported from a snowed in Malmö to a drunken summer beach parties in Dalston with the police busting in and everything. Which, of course, doesn't make any sense but I guess you had to be there. Thanks to the brave ones who fought the weather and came down and helped out with gas money.We had a great time and guest-dj Krister of  Record Turnover played some rather lovely tunes.

Krister also joined us at the Friday Casual where we played a short set of anglophile pop and dubstep to a crowd of anarcho punks. That was very interesting and the place was on fire! Literally.

Finally we were back at Tempo Bar & Kök for our second Too Cute To Puke night. We are really starting to enjoy these girl fronted nights. We played a bit more pop this time to fit in with the lovely x-mas decorations and mood. Really fun and as always the staff and guests were super nice.

Heres what we and our impromptu guest Jassiie Freak played:

Chalk And Numbers - He Knew
Meat Joy - Another Pair
The Chymes - He's Not There Anymore
The Angels - (You Can't Take) My Boyfriend's Woody
La Femme - Sur La Planche

Las Robertas - Street Feelings
Garbo's Daughter - He's Good At Everything (But Being Good To Me)
Nancy Sinatra - How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?
Holly St James - That's Not Love
Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me

Phyllis Dillon - Perfidia
Mag & The Suspects - Erection
Lust-Cats of the Gutters - Nothing Cool Happens on Dates
Honey Bane - Guilty
Maximum Joy - Stretch

Dum Dum Girls - Brite Futures
Black Tambourine - For Ex-Lovers Only - (Lost Inner Ear Mix)
Sister Vanilla - The Two Of Us
The Chiffons - Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me)
Seapony - Go Away

The Exciters - Just Not Ready
Rocketship - I Love You Like The Way That I Used To Do
The Liminanas - Je Suis Une Go-Go Girl
Anna Karina - Roller Girl
Jane Birkin - Lolita Go Home

Dusty Springfield - Am I The Same Girl
Thee Headcoatees - Cara-Lin
Bobsleigh Baby - Hop Blues Sixty Six
Funstix - Funstix Party
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

Comet Gain - Hideaway
Animals & Men - The Man With The Spiked-Toed Shoes
Marlene & The Debanettes - Earthquake
The Parallelograms - Dream On Daisy
Mo-Dettes - White Mouse Disco

Blind Terry - Long Ride In The Metro
Mary Lou Lord - Some Jingle Jangle Morning (When I'm Straight)
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
Camera Obscura - Eighties Fan
France Gall - Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son

Two Bit Dezperados - Alive/Dead
Lill Lindfors - Du För Mej
Diane Renay - Watch Out, Sally!
Sandy Posey - I Take It Back
Nico - I'm Not Sayin'

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - (We've Got) Honey Love
Saint Etienne - You're In A Bad Way
Kirsty Maccoll - A New England
Hot Lava - Apple+Option+Fire
Colleen Green - Dance The Night Away

Rough Bunnies - Dance With Your Shadow
Alicja-Pop - Walking The Cow
Grass Widow - Shadow
Plug - B-Boy
Beat Happening - In Between

Garbo's Daughter - Private Party
Best Coast - When I'm With You
Donna Loren - Cycle Set
Monica Zetterlund - Stick Iväg Jack
Allo, Darlin' - Henry Rollins Don't Dance

Shocking Blue - Send Me A Postcard
The Raincoats - Lola
Breeders - Freed Pig
Thee Headcoatees - Have Love, Will Travel
Bristols - Questions I Can't Answer

The Beatle-Ettes - Only Seventeen
Sandie Shaw - Sympathy For The Devil
Marcia Aitken - I'm Still In Love
The Marvels - Rock Steady
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Big Eyed Beans From Venus (Not a girl but we had to pay tribute to this great artist who passed away yesterday)

The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Rough Mix) (Another tribute to the great great Ari Up)
Lio - Le Banana Split
Melody Dog - Movin' On Up

The Friday Casual

Hey, just a quick announcement. We're now part of the Friday Casual, a group of friends with a taste for punk, pop, ska, house, disco, northern and modern soul, glamrock, pints of IPAs and bitters, cycling, football, fish'n'chips, the Pickwick and fine clothing playing records at the lovely downstairs of Rex in Malmö. We're playing today Friday between 21-01.

Bookmarks and RSS updates

Hey, you may have noticed that our latest mix went down yesterday because Blogger got a complaint. Instead of the copyright holder contacting us and asking us to remove his track, which we happily would have, them filing a complaint caused Blogger to take down the entire post. Fair enough as those are the rules, but what bugs us about having the entire mix taken down is that a lot of these artist actually thanked us putting them on the mix and retweeted and help spread the word themselves. It quite frankly sucks as we're trying to promote music we really really like with others, who will also hopefully continue to support these artists buy buying records, mp3s and merch and going to gigs.

Anyhoo. Instead of realising too late that we should have created a back-up should Blogger decide to delete us, we've actually already done so if that should happen everything will be transferred to a new providerrr.... Okay, this is  just sounding silly. Look if this blog goes down we're moving to wordpress is what we're trying to say

Please change your bookmarks to www.sotoughsocute.com and please change your RSS-subscription to feeds.feedburner.com/sotoughsocute or press this fancy button. Mmm fancy button... press it...

This way, should the blog go down you won't notice anything except us being totally inept at getting the other blog design to look even remotely good.

The photo is from the book Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture edited by Thurston Moore. Painting is by Tom Sachs and we have no idea who took the photo. 

Saturday 18th Dec. Too Cute To Puke #02 - A female fronted So Tough! So Cute! special at Tempo Bar & Kök

We're back with our second Too Cute To Puke special at Tempo Bar & Kök! Like the last time we'll be playing Female-fronted Punk, Indie Pop, Riot Grrl, Post-Punk, DIY as well as '60s Surf, Ska and Girl-groups.

Have a pint with us and listen to the new Black Tambourine mixes, La Femme who'll have an amazing 7" out soon, the just released Plug LP and the new acquaintances Bobsleigh Baby and Two Bit Dezperados, both on Jeetkune recs, who make us really happy at the moment and Funstix, lovely Funstix.

And of course bands like Free Kitten, Magik Markers, Bad Banana, Seapony, Slutever, ESG, Mika Miko, Neonates, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Spider And The Webs, Bikini Kill, Explode Into Colors, X Ray Spex, Peepholes, Phyllis Dillon, Vivian Girls, Frumpies, Headcoatees, Period Pains, Shop Assistants, Veronica Falls, Brilliant Colors, Pens, Raincoats, Rosa Yemen, Waitresses, Plug, Le Tigre, Trash Kit, Honey Bane, Melody Dog, Wet Dog, Little Eve, Best Coast, Ut, Au Pairs, Micragirls, Young Marble Giants, Mutating Meltdown, Talulah Gosh, Crystals, Henry's Dress, Aislers Set, Kitty Cat Spy Club, Garbo's Daughter, Tiger Trap, Snowbirds, Morbid Opera, Splinters, La Sera, Sweater Girls, Huggy Bear, Colleen Green, Super Wild Horses, Dolly Mixture, La La Vasquez, Emily's Sassy Lime, Skinned Teen, Maximum Joy, Slits, Strawberry Switchblade, Chin Chin, Kleenex/Liliput and loads more.

Too Cute To Puke - A female fronted So Tough! So Cute! special
Tempo Bar & Kök, Malmö Sweden
Saturday 18 December | 22-01 | Free

[Edit] Just want to add this: 100% Malmö is an awesome initiative in our hometown. A list of female driven projects and creators in all areas.

Mixtape: Judy Is A Punk And Jackie's Never Coming Back

It’s been a bit chilly lately so to keep you warm here’s the latest batch of our not so monthly mixtapes. So snug up with a blanket, woolly socks, some mulled wine - or as we call it in Sweden “glögg” - and some nice mouldy cheese and gingerbread (you gotta taste to believe it) and have a listen. Just turning the heat up and having a shot of vodka is also ok. But drink responsibly. So Tough! So Cute! cares.

There are some great tracks in here that make us go all warm and fuzzy inside. We’ve got brand new tracks off the upcoming albums with Silver Shampoo, Veronica Falls and Chain And The Gang plus tracks from Tyvek and everybodys favourite bearded Scotsman Aidan John Moffat new full lenghts (have you seen Moffats 7” LP? Drop. Dead. Gorgeous). Lust-Cats of the Gutters and Bad Banana have, so far download only, teasers of hopefully upcoming releases which will own next year and Hunx and his Punx have finally embraced their inner girl-group. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Sourpatch and The Hobbes Fanclub keep the indie pop dance floor poppin’ and for the punks we’ve got a nice live version of The Falls Guest Informant with Brix up front with Mark E Smith, the party starters that are Funstix and Sex Beet who’ll be playing at our next club night. Hope you like this and please keep buying releases and going to the gigs.

But but but… what about the best of 2010 list? Well we think it’s still a bit early so we’re going to play it like this: We’ll have a special guest mixtape up in about two weeks and just when you’ve sobered up after New Years Eve we’ll have our best of 2010 list for you waiting here.

Judy Is A Punk And Jackie’s Never Coming Back
1. Funstix - Funstix Party
2. Tyvek - 4312
3. Bette Davis And The Balconettes - White Food
4. Sourpatch - Never (Ever Ever) Enough
5. Magik Markers - Body Rot
6. Sex Beet - Scarecrow
7. Thee Headcoatees - Cara-Lin
8. The Hobbes Fanclub - Outside Myself
9. Lust-Cats of the Gutters - Judy is a Punk
10. Surf Friends - You’re On My Mind
11. Veronica Falls - Right Side Of My Brain
12. Silver Shampoo - Insect Eyes
13. Subtle Turnhips - Can Can
14. Aidan John Moffat - Twice
15. Spoiled Brats - Jackie’s Never Coming Back
16. The Jameses - Caribou
17. Gods Gift - Clamour Club
18. Breeders - Freed Pig
19. Bad Banana - Pretty Like A Girl
20. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Daylight Robbery
21. Chain & The Gang - Why Not?
22. Hunx And His Punx - Dream On (Little Dreamer)
23. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak
24. The Fall - Guest Informant (Live In Vienna)

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Hey, why not just send us a friendly email and we'll be happy to take down your track and leave the rest up. We've recieved thanks, mentions and support from quite a few of the featured bands who actually appreciate being on this mix.

Oh, and a quick reminder of our upcoming events.
STSC presents Sex Beet at Vinylbaren Malmö 16th Dec.
STSC Djing at Juldagsbaluns at Debaser Malmö 25th Dec.
Club night at the Drop in Stoke Newington London 28th Jan.

So Tough! So Cute! presents Sex Beet at Vinylbaren, KB in Malmö 16th Dec

You'll be craving the beach and cool drinks with tiny umbrellas when Londons finest pop punk explosion Sex Beet visit So Tough! So Cute! straight from their tour with Best Coast and Spectrals and shine on this snowy cold Malmö. Their punk take on reverby surf and beach pop make us want to drink beer and pogo like there's no tomorrow! So excited about having these guys over from the UK so come on down and go wild!

After the bands we'll get you spinning and skipping on the dancefloor so cancel any Friday morning plans!

SEX BEET

Driver & The Drummer
Vinylbaren, Malmö Sweden
Thursday 16 December | 20-01 | Free but donations for the band will be kindly accepted!

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Playlists and photos from So Tough So Cute at the Drop Nov. 26

Phew! What a home run! What a great dancefloor! What great guests! A thousand thanks to everybody who came down to the Drop last Saturday! What an amazing night! It was absolutely packed! You make us blush with all your mad dancing and shuffling and smiling and kind words and The Slits t-shirts and shouts of "Oh god I can't you believe you just played that song! I LOVE that song!"

A big thank you to the Mongonaut for coming all the way from Gothenburg and spinning such ace forty-fives! You can see his playlist after the photos. There were a few times we couldn't believe our eyes when he put on the needle and the dancefloor exploded. Such a great set

Thanks also to the bar staff, bouncers and door guys and L for taking some lovely snaps and everybody mentioning us on blogs and Twitter.

We''l be doing a few nights in Sweden before we're back in the UK at the Drop in January 28th and there's already an event on Facebook so click through and please invite your friends!

 L-U-V you guys!

 Oh, and the photos are on our Facebook group as well if you'd like to get tagged.

The Mongonaut Played

Electric Light Orchestra: Showdown

Lee Dorsey: Operation Heartache

The Monochrome Set: He's Frank

The French Church: Slapneck 1943

Stephen Eicher: Sweet Jane

Palais Schaumburg: Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt

The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2: I Want To Get Back (From The World Of Lsd)

Donovan: Superlungs My Supergirl

The Gestures: Run Run Run

The Loved Ones: Suprise, Suprise

The Lucksmiths: T-Shirt Weather

Seapony: Dreaming

Allo Darlin: Henry Rollins Don't Dance

Drop Nineteens: Winona

The Field Mice: September's Not So Far Away

Go-Betweens: Lee Remick

The Triffids: Mgm

New Order: Age Of Consent

The Aislers Set: Red Door

The Wedding Present: Nobody's Is Twisting Your Arm

Clinic: Monkey On My Back

Pavement: Cut Your Hair

Bobby Moore: Chained To Your Heart

The Ethiopians: Train To Skaville

The Strangeloves: Cara-Lin

The Fabs: That's The Bag I'm In

The Creation: Painter Man

The Traits: Nobody Loves The Hulk

The Vaselines: Molly's Lips

The Knickerbockers: Lies

The Buzzcocks: What Do I Get

Herman Düne: I Wish That I Could See You Soon

Comet Gain: You Can Hide Your Love Forever

The Equals: Police On My Back

The Headcoats: We Hate The Fuckin Nme

The Blendells: La La La La La

Bob Seger & The Last Heard: Heavy Music Pt. 1

Shadows Of Knight: Shake

Hunx & His Punx: You Don't Like Rock'n'roll

The Bobettes: Mr Lee

The Shirelles: Last Minute Miracle

The Flirtations: How Can You Tell Me

Jocelyn: Nitty Gritty

Shirley Ellis: The Clapping Song

The Shells: Whiplash

The Fall: Totally Wired

Jackie Wilson: Soul Galore

EDdie Holland: Leaving Here

Baby Huey & The Babysitters: Monkey Man

The Strangeloves: I Want Candy

Stsc Played

Pastels - Nothing To Be Done

Pulp - Cocaine Socialism

Camera Obscura - Honey In The Sun

Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind

The Monochrome Set - He's Frank

Dexys Midnight Runners - I Love You (Listen To This)

Bobby Reed - The Time Is Right For Love

Go-Betweens - Love Goes On! (Single Version)

Surf Friends - You're On My Mind

Major Lance - Ain't No Soul Left In These Old Shoes

Trembling Blue StarS - Cold Colours

Håkan Hellström - Inte Skyldig Nån Nåt

The Smiths - Handsome Devil

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak

Shirley Ellis - The Name Game

Pulp - Babies

Belle & Sebastian - Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie

The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Rough Mix

The Dells - Wear It On Our Face

Marlene & The Debanettes - Earthquake

Veronica Falls - Beachy Head

Hefner - Pull Yourself Together

Hunx And His Punx - Dream On (Little Dreamer)

The Halo Benders - Don't Touch My Bikini

Nai Bonet - Jelly Belly

The Chiffons - Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me)

Annette Funicello - Pajama Party

Standard Fare - Philadelphia

Ballboy - I've Got Pictures Of You In Your Underwear

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love... (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

Skatalites - Dick Tracy

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae

Nixon - There's Too Much Soul On Your Mix-Tape!

Crass - Banned From The Roxy

Broder Daniel - Underground

Håkan Hellström - En Midsommarnattsdröm

Orange Juice - I Can't Help Myself

Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

Beat Happening - Teenage Caveman

Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone

Belle & Sebastian - Electronic Renaissance

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction

Madness - Nightboat To Cairo

The Vaselines - The Day I Was A Horse

Field Mice - Emma's House

Hefner - The Hymn For The Cigarettes

Jens Lekman - You Are The Light (By Which I Travel Into This And That)

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - New England

Primitives - Crash

Nerves - When You Find Out

Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh

Shop Assistants - I Don't Wanna To Be Friends With You

Belle & Sebastian - There's Too Much Love

Camera Obscura - Number One Son

Mccarthy - The Well Of Loneliness

The Pooh Sticks - On Tape

Cats On Fire - Draw In The Reins

Homer Simpson - Spider-Pig

Jonathan Richman, Ronnie Spector and Calvin Johnson taught us everything we need to know about dancing

See you on the So Tough! So Cute! dancefloor at the Drop on Friday!


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Playlist from Too Cute To Puke at Tempo Bar & Kök

"Yeah that was one hell of a playlist! Thanks again for making our shift such a pleasurable experience xxoo" - dipperjocke.

Have we told you lately how much we enjoy playing at Tempo Bar & Kök? Well we do. A lot. Thanks to the staff and those that joined us last night! So much fun. Here's what we played during the night. All girls except for the Go Sailor track where we had a brain freeze and totally forgot that it's actually Paul singing on that track. Ah well.

Too Cute To Puke playlist
Erasers - Outside Enviroment
Marine Girls - On My Mind
Young Marble Giants - Clicktalk
Motorcycle Boy - Run Run Run
Morbid Opera - Madness

Aislers Set - Walked In Line
Au Pairs - Diet
Alicja-Pop - Walking The Cow
Pens - Love Rules
Yellow Fever - Alice

Best Coast - Boyfriend
The Limiñanas - Je suis une go-go girl
Raincoats - No Ones Little Girl
The History Of Apple Pie - Mallory
Plug - Nonchalant Love

Colleen Green - Dance the Night Away
The Splinters - Mysterious
Adaptors - In The Slot
Crass - Darling
Breeders - Freed Pig

Bad Banana - Word Buzz
Brilliant Colors - English Cities
Vivian Girls - Tell The World
Grass Widow - Shadow
La La Vasquez - Williamsburg

Trash Kit - Cadets
Skinned Teen - Pillowcase Kisser
Super Wild Horses - 89 Cadet
Wetdog - Stumpy Torso
Nixe - Scientist

The Delinquents - Do You Have A Job For A Girl Like Me
Dolly Mixture - My Rainbow Valley
The Monster Women - Running Man
Las Robertas - History Is Done
Lung Leg - Maid To Minx

Seapony - Dreaming
La La Vasquez - Williamsburg
Girls at Our Best - Singles Medley (Peel Session)
Blondie - Love At The Pier
Garbo’s Daughter - Mascara Stains on My Pillowcase

All Girl Summer Fun Band - Later Operator
Lung Leg - Disco Biscuit
Veronica Falls - Right Side Of My Brain
Sweater Girls - Fingers Crossed
Tiger Trap - My Broken Heart

Go Sailor - The Boy Who Sailed Around The World
Besties - Theme Song
Cars Can Be Blue - Fuck Me
Funstix - Funstix Party
Lust-Cats of the Gutters - Judy is a Punk

Les Calamités - Toutes Les Nuits
Occult Chemistry - Water
Penny & The Rims - Madmen
Animals & Men - Mad Bad But Good To Know
Esg - Dance

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wawa
Scorched Earth Policy - Green Cigar
Explode Into Colors - Paper (Hot Sax Version)
Peepholes - Lair
Magik Markers - Body Rot

Spider And The Webs - Do You Really Wanna
La Sera - Never Come Around
Period Pains - Ex-Boyfriend
Au Pairs - It’s Obvious
Mutating Meltdown - Fantasy

Skinned Teen - Ex-Boyfriend Beat
The Red Krayola - Born In Flames
The Monster Women - Running Man
Micragirls - Whatta Way To Die
The Coathangers - Stop Stomp Stompin’

Suburban Wives Club - Casual Cat At A Laundromat
Emily’s Sassy Lime  - Cola Boy
Huggy Bear - Her Jazz
Shop Assistants - I Don’t Wanna To Be Friends With ou
Melody Dog - Movin’ On Up
Dream Bitches - Me And The Major

Fat Tulips - Rainbow Sky
Bikini Kill - I Like Fucking
Helen Love - Girl About Town
Finally Punk - Six Years Doing Time In A Nightclub
Colleen Green - Green One

Veronica Falls - Beachy Head
Reading Rainbow - Wasting Time
Beat Happening - In Between
Talulah Gosh - Break Your Face
Dum Dum Girls - Brite Futures

Fuzzbox - Love Is The Slug
Vibrarians - Redlight
48 Chairs - Snap It Around
La La Vasquez - Buoy
Honey Bane - Girl On The Run

Frankie Rose And The Outs - Little Brown Haired Girls
Morbid Opera - Private Prostitute
The Slits - Fm - John Peel Bbc Radio 1 Session 1977
Henry’s Dress - Sunshine Proves All Wrongness
The Shining Twins - I Hate You

Makthaverskan - Josef
Mo-Dettes - White Mouse Disco
Parallelograms - 1-2-3 Go!
Minisnap - Innocent
The Blanche Hudson Weekend - Noise And Fury

The Maulies - Rude Limey
Mika Miko - Capricorinations
Allo, Darlin’ - Henry Rollins Don’t Dance
Beat Happening - Bury The Hammer
Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill

Julia Lee - Last Call For Alcohol

Image from Love and Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez

Saturday 20th Nov. Too Cute To Puke #01 - A female fronted So Tough! So Cute! special at Tempo Bar & Kök

So Tough! So Cute! presents a Too Cute To Puke special at Tempo Bar & Kök. Female-fronted Punk, IndiePop, Riot Grrl, Post-Punk, DIY and '60s Surf, Ska and Girl-groups.

Come listen to Bad Banana, Seapony, Slutever, ESG, Mika Miko, Neonates, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Spider And The Webs, Bikini Kill, Explode Into Colors, X Ray Spex, Peepholes, Phyllis Dillon, Vivian Girls, Frumpies, Headcoatees, Period Pains, Shop Assistants, Veronica Falls, Brilliant Colors, Pens, Raincoats, Rosa Yemen, Waitresses, Plug, Le Tigre, Trash Kit, Honey Bane, Melody Dog, Wet Dog, Little Eve, Best Coast, Ut, Au Pairs, Micragirls, Young Marble Giants, Mutating Meltdown, Talulah Gosh, Crystals, Henry's Dress, Aislers Set, Kitty Cat Spy Club, Garbo's Daughter, Tiger Trap, Snowbirds, Morbid Opera, Splinters, La Sera, Sweater Girls, Huggy Bear, Colleen Green, Super Wild Horses, Dolly Mixture, La La Vasquez, Emily's Sassy Lime, Skinned Teen, Maximum Joy, Slits, Strawberry Switchblade, Chin Chin, Kleenex/Liliput and loads more

Too Cute To Puke - A female fronted So Tough! So Cute! special
Tempo Bar & Kök, Malmö Sweden
Saturday 20 November | 22-01 | Free

And to get in the mood we recommend the Girls To The Front book, Jenny Woolworth's Women In Punk, Cease To Exist, Gunilla Mixtapes, TV Dinner podcast and the always great Jigsaw Underground. Also some fines ales and vodka.

Friday 26th Nov. So Tough! So Cute! club night at the Drop in Stoke Newington

And so it begins! The first of our monthly nights in Stoke Newington! We'll be spinning, pogoing and bopping along to heartracing Northern Soul, limp wristed jangly Indie Pop and bedroom DIY, Tamla Motown, late seventies/early eighties pop punk love, sixties Girl Groups and new crushes like Colleen Green, Seapony, Veronica Falls, Spectrals, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punks, La La Vasquez, Best Coast, 'Allo Darlin, Las Robertas, Wavves and Wild Nothing.

Straight outta Gothenburg, Sweden we've invited the manic record collector The Mongonaut, who played an amazing set with us this summer which got the whole Pop Punk Love festival sweatin', bumpin' and grindin' (obviously in a very polite indiepop way). So put on your best pair of brogues or chucks and come dance with us!

SO TOUGH! SO CUTE!
DJs: STSC Sound System + Guest DJ: The Mongonaut (Swe)

Friday 26 November

The Drop (downstairs of the Three Crowns Pub)

175 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 OLH | Map

11pm-04am | £3 | Facebook Event

Guest Mixtape 07: A So Tough! So Cute! mix by Colleen Green

Art by Colleen Green

Big day for us at the STSC headquarters as we have a mixtape to offer you by the faboulous Colleen Green! We've been eagerly awaiting a proper realease after being run over by on her amazing tracks 4 Loko 2 Kayla, Dance The Night Away and Green One on her myspace which sent us dancing (more like awkwardly shuffling) and looking for an excuse to go over to that Special Person and ask if they wanted to go outside for a smoke and make-out.

Ace label Art Fag Recordings, who have released other So Tough favourites like Las Robertas, Best Coast and Internet Forever, has heard our prayers it seems and will hopefully be releasing an EP sometime soon, and 4 Loko 2 Kayla will be out on a vinyl 7" as well in early 2011. Though you can still buy tapes and the 4 Loko 2 Kayla CD-Rs on the Colleen Green Myspace.

Colleen also has the funny Happy Birfday Jeff blog which features a lot of dope smokin' adventures and being on tour with Girlfriends but our favourite is the Real Shit Daily! tumblr where's she puts up her super cool comics. Here's the mix she made for us with her comments, hope you like it!

A So Tough So Cute Mix By Colleen Green
1. Colleen Green - U And Me
2. Camper Van Beethoven - Eye Of Fatima (Pt. 1)
3. Blink-182 - Strings
4. Bugs And Rats - Summertime
5. Descendents - GCF
6. Devo - It's Not Right
7. Pixies - La La Love You
8. King Tubby - King Tubby's Conversation Dub
9. The Splinters - Dark Shades
10. Teen Idols - Insanity Plea
11. Raveonettes - Attack Of The Ghost Riders
12. Fastbacks - I Found The Star
13. Drexel - Lazy
14. Sublime - Steppin' Razor
15. Superdrag - Sugar
16. Damone - Your Girlfriends
17. The Lot Six - Die Polize
18. Scared Of Chaka - Why Are You Weird?
19. Off With Their Heads - Hard To Admit
20. The Big Big Bucks - Arsenal Compliments Wardrobe
21. The English Beat - Pato And Roger A Go Talk

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Here is a mix I made.  I wasn't trying to show off or anything, I just put a bunch of songs by bands I really, really like.  I also repped my home state of Massachusetts pretty hard.  I am an ass though for not putting any Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr., or Sebadoh. Oh well. Hope you all enjoy this poppy shit.

U + ME - Colleen Green
A brand new song by Yours Truly.

Eye of Fatima - Camper Van Beethoven
This song rules. I first heard it on Sublime's acoustic album. Bradley Nowell had excellent taste in music.

Strings - Blink 18
An old classic by one of my favorite bands of all time.

Summertime - Bugs And Rats
My favorite current Boston band. My old band used to play with them all the time and we shared a practice room too.  So heavy, so druggy, they have been a huge influence on me for years.

GCF - Descendents
All I want is some good clean fun! Well, that's not true.

It's Not Right - Devo
"I sit around in a trance all day and think about you all the time..."

La La Love You - Pixies
I often find myself wishing that I could write songs as simultaneously poppy and weird as The Pixies. I read the ad that Frank Black posted in the Phoenix in the 80s looking for a female band mate one time.  It was pretty cool.

King Tubby's Conversation Dub - King Tubby
No song that has ever appeared on a Trojan Records compilation has ever been bad.

Dark Shades - Splinters
The Splinters are an awesome all girl band from Oakland, CA. Their new album "Kick" is really good and this is one of my favorite songs from it.

Insanity Plea - Teen Idols
Classic tale of "I'm gonna kill myself if you break up with me." "...And if that doesn't work I'm going to kill you."

Attack Of The Ghost Riders - Raveonettes
I first found out about the Raveonettes from MTV, can you believe it???? I saw this video on a special thing they were doing about "indie" bands.  I've loved them ever since.  Me, Kayla, and Nate went to see them one time at The Paradise in Boston, and it was really awesome.  I was super high, which ruled and all, but I wished I had been on something slightly more psychedelic.

I Found The Star - Fastbacks
The Fastbacks are one of my FAVORITE bands ever. I've never heard a song by them I didn't like, except maybe that Bee Gees cover.

Lazy - Drexel
This Boston band was a huge part of my life from the ages of 14-22 maybe? Me and all my friends loved them and used to go see them all the time at various VFWs, KofCs, Elks Lodges, high school football fields, and various clubs in the Boston area.  Eventually me and my friend Jenna ended up working for their record company, a tiny independent label run out of Allston, MA called Fork in Hand Records.  But seriously, I've loved all their music for years and I met a lot of my best friends through going to Drexel shows and hanging out in that scene.

Steppin Razor - Sublime
I was obsessed, literally obsessed, with Sublime from 6th-10th grade.  They were the first "rock n roll" band I got into, and through their music I learned about a lot of other bands that became pretty important to me.  This song is off "Robbin' the Hood" which doesn't sound amazing but a lot Sublime's best songs are on here.  I've always loved their experimental/improvisational nature and their DIY /fuck you attitude.  Plus, they smoke mad weed.

Sugar - Superdrag
Superdrag is one of my favorite bands from the 90s. "Regretfully Yours" left a huge impression on me when I first heard it. I wish I could make songs that sound exactly like them. I like this song because it's about drugs and love.

Your Girlfriends - Damone
When this song was recorded and originally released, this Boston band was still known as Noelle (after their 15 year old singer, Noelle). I love this song! The original guitarist, Dave Pino, was a founding member of another one of my favorite Boston bands Superglue, then went on to form Waltham, and now allegedly plays guitar in Powerman 5000.

Die Polize - The Lot Six
This is a rowdy jam from another of my favorite Boston bands of all time, The Lot Six.  They were a great rock n roll band and their shows were always super fun.

Hard To Admit - Off With Their Heads
I still think about him every day, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Arsenal Compliments Wardrobe - Big Big Bucks
My buddies!!! I love The Big Big Bucks! I've played a million shows with them and we went on tour together one time too.  We smoke all the weed together and they call me "sis".  All four members are pretty amazing musicians, and they are currently playing some of the most fucked up pop music in Boston.

Pato And Roger A Go Talk - The English Beat
I really like "Rotating Head" a lot better, but I recently put that on a mix I made for someone else, and I wanted to mix it up a bit.  This song rules too though.  I'm obsessed with British Reggae.

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DJ-set on Nov 5th. at Klubb Indigo at Blekingska Nationen in Lund

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Hey all, we're happy to announce that we're playing records at Klubb Indigo in Lund this Friday. It's at Blekingska Nationen - holy indiepop ground here in southern Sweden to say the least. We've had tons of fun here in the past, like on the night with the Tough Alliance madness - top 10 shows ever! -  and are happy to have been invited again. Please come down and have a fun night with us. We'll be playing our specially roasted blend of Indiepop, sixties Soul, Pop and Girl-group and tons of other stuff to keep your feet stomping.

This is a student nation so you'll need student ID to be able to get in. The rules for non-Lund students kinda go over our heads  - hey' we're record geeks, we're too busy remembering catalogue numbers - so we asked our friends Copy & Paste to explain it all:

För att komma in krävs nationsmedlemskap. Är man studerande på annat universitet eller högskola så går det bra att köpa gästleg för 50 spänn, senast samma eftermiddag som klubben kör (det är vårt quratel som har rätt att utfärda gästleg, men det går att boka gästleg på distans, om man mejlar bild på giltigt fotoleg och studentleg.)

See you there!

Klubb Indigo
Blekingska Nationen, Måsvägen 11, Lund, Sweden
Friday Nov 5th | 22-02 | 18 with Student ID
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Video from Splash One Happening + Mixtape

This is just too cool! Video footage from club Splash One Happening, partly run by Bobby Gillespie between 1985 and 1986 in Glasgow, has turned up on youtube with a very young stripey shirted Bobby G dancing about with Duglas of BMX Bandits,  NME writer and Razorcuts drummer David Swift and also Stephen Pastel according to Andy Hart. Simply amazing to be able to see this! The clothes, the haircuts and how fun everybody seems to have dancing about to fantastic music - which we can't help but think would empty dancefloors today. Here's the video:



While googling for more info we found a very cool tracklist for one of the tapes played on the night when Sonic Youth played. Apparently there was no vinyl flippin' DJs but rather pre-recorded mixtapes compiled by the Splash One members. The tracklist is from now defunct Splash One Happening blog and in need of something to brighten up this rainy wednesday we've compiled all the tracks in a handy downloadable zip-file. Enjoy!

Splash One Happening - Soundtrack Tape For Sonic Youth 18th May 1985
A-Side:
Psychic TV - Godstar
Shop Assistants - Safety Net
Echo And The Bunnymen - Pictures On My Wall
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth - Shame For The Angels
Ramones - Glad To See You Go
Birthday Party - Dead Joe
Love - My Little Red Book
Lime Spiders - Slave Girl
Velvet Underground - What Goes On
The Doors - Break On Through To The Other Side
13th Floor Elevators - Splash 1 (Now I'm Home)
Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Buzzcocks - Sixteen Again
Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down

B-side:
Love - Seven & Seven Is
Wire - Practice Makes Perfect
Seeds, The - No Escape
Dr. Mix And The Remix - Out Of The Question
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Public Image Ltd - Public Image
Saints - This Perfect Day
Wedding Present - Once More
Swell Maps - Dresden Style
Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns To Blue
Subway Sect - Ambition
Julian Cope - Sunspots
Soft Cell - The Art Of Falling Apart
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
(One more Julian Cope track was listed but with no title)

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Guest Mixtape 06: The Bean Scene by David Feck of Comet Gain

Art by David Feck

Voila! Here it is! The mixtape by David Feck of Comet Gain! Twentyone tracks selected by one of our favourite songwriters and namedroppers. Comet Gain have always referenced other songs and bands and with us being suckers for pop cultural references we've always enjoyed the musical history filtered through Comet Gain shambling pop. Weather it's playing live with songs transforming into Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas, sneaking in lyrics from the Byrds - Chestnut Mare like when they played the Buffalo Bar in London or just the pure meta joy that is the song Record Collection it always sent us running for the original. We love being able to take a part of the music that inspire bands we like so this is treat for us. Thank you so much David.

Comet Gain are currently recording a new album which will hopefully be out early next year but you can still pick up The Weekend Dreams split and the I Never Happened single (aw crap, it's sold out) and the Cinema Red And Blue LP which is joint effort by Comet Gain and Crystal Stilts with help by Gary Olson of The Ladybug Transistor, Hamish Kilgour from The Clean and Amy Linton of Henry’s Dress and The Aislers Set .

The Bean Scene
1. The Collectors - Make It Easy
Groovy Canadian garage punk I 1st heard drunk on the floor of a High...(?) flat
2. Laura Nyro - When I Die
All girls hate Laura Nyro
3. Rationals - Listen To Me
Detroits Kinks/Action dancers
4. Soft Boys - Empty Girl
Jagged psych pop genius - one of the best
5. Daughters Of Albion - Hey, You, Wait, Stay
A great lost pop 6TS LP that looks like hippy drivel but is Beach Boys style genius
6. Verlaines - Burlesque
Flying Nun label mystery monks. I dig Chills most but Verlaines are great odd pop
7. Clarence Carter - Can't Leave Your Love Alone
Blind soul dude
8. American Music Club - Heaven In Your Hands
The beautiful sad genius of Mark Eitzel - this song has beautiful words
9. Blue orchids - Work
Ex-Fall members drone groove prole mong
10. Mekons - Ghosts Of American Austronauts
Nice proper pop
11. Belfast Gypsies - Secret Police
Kim Fowley is nuts + mean + tall + full of spite + makes the best dumb 45s
12. Julian Cope - Easter Everywhere
The psych pop warlock sings the delights of elevators 2nd LP from his cheezy period
13. Manfred Mann - It's So Easy Falling
60's English bear pop frenzy. Yowza!
14. Bobby Womack - How I Miss You Baby
Smooth southern soul ballads with gritty guitars - these send me ga-ga
15. Rain Parade - Blue
One of the great 80s psych bands in yearning burn
16. Stone Poneys - One For One
17. The Fall - Fit & Working Again
18. Lilac Time - Finistere
19. Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Electronic Tonic
20. Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Biomusicology
21. 13th Floor Elevators - Dust
It's been 25 years of reverberating to the great elevators sound. I still ain't ascended yet

(The notes were from Davids handwritten tracklist so apologies if we've misread some words)

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Mixtapes: It's Not Fair What You Do To Me + Talkin' 'Bout The New Dance Craze

Ah crap. We're sorry. We promised you the awesome mixtape David Feck of Comet Gain kindly made us but it is currently stuck in a box being UPS'd from London to Malmö. As soon as we get it we'll put it up here.

In the meantime we have not one but two mixtapes of our own for you. Lots of awesome songs that we've spun repeatedly on our recordplayer and our current crush Skinned Teen actually appears twice. Love this band to death. Also two other strong female fronted bands that may very well end up on our year list. The Super Wild Horses and The Splinters album are both delightful. Actually several of the featured bands are strong contenders for that list. It's been a great year and we look forward hearing what these last few months will bring us. A special thanks to our favourite Mongonaut for pointing us in the direction of some of these tracks while we were stuck in the black hole that is Virgin Medias excuse for broadband. As always, please support the artist by going to shows and buy their records and cassettes. Their myspace pages usually contain info on distros. Hope you enjoy these two mixtapes.

It's Not Fair What You Do To Me
1. For Ex-Lovers Only - Scraps
2. Micragirls, The - Whatta Way To Die
3. Crystal Stilts - Shake The Shackles
4. Animals & Men - Mad Bad But Good To Know
5. Wild Thing - Age Difference
6. Poppets - Dance Party
7. Crass - Shaved Women
8. The Lonely Boys - Ugly Girl
9. Cap Pas Cap - No Fun
10. Nobunny - (Do The) Fuck Yourself
11. Peepholes - Lair
12. Huggy Bear - Her Jazz
13. Mike Pedicin - Burnt Toast And Black Coffee
14. Skinned Teen - Ex-Boyfriend Beat
15. The Vaselines - Ruined
16. Swimsuit - Sunlight
17. Royal Headache - Eloise
18. The Limiñanas - Funeral Baby
19. Wipers - Tragedy (Another Take)

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Talkin' 'Bout The Dance Craze
1. Skinned Teen - Dance All Night
2. Period Pains - Ex-Boyfriend
3. Reading Rainbow - Wasting Time
4. The Splinters - Mysterious
5. The Wicked Awesomes - Time Shit And Crystal Snot
6. Voice Of The Puppets - You're All I Wanted (And A Car)
7. Super Wild Horses - On The Corner
8. Nerve City - Sleepwalker
9. The Breakaways - Walking Out On Love
10. Occult Chemistry - Water
11. Puddin Pops - Totally
12. Lovvers - AXTXTXIXTXUXDXE
13. Thurston, Kim & Epic - Black Candy
14. Liz Anderson - Never, Ever
15. No Age - Glitter
16. Vibrarians - Redlight
17. Wet & Reckless - New Guy
18. The History Of Apple Pie - Mallory
19. Seapony - Go Away

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