Mixtape: Eating Ice Cream At Midnight With You

Records, we've got records! The mailbox lid barely has time to shut before the next bunch of cassettes and 7 inches drop down. Not LPs though. The LPs we have to pick up at the post office. Luckily we have a new mixtape to listen to whilst strolling down the sunny streets of London so we don't mind. And now you can too. (Listen to the mixtape we mean. We don't know if it's sunny where you are. Or if there are even streets.) As always, if you like a track buy it.

Eating Ice Cream At Midnight With You
1. Felt Letters - 600,000 Bands
2. French Kissing - Oh Suzanne
3. Brilliant Colors - Over There
4. Jaill - Beggar Sincere
5. McTells - Ice Cream
6. Slow Animal - Sanity
7. Spectrals - Keep Your Magic Out Of My House
8. Dum Dum Girls - Blank Girl
9. Nudge Squidfish - They Call Me Mike Rep
10. Psychobuildings - Birds of Prey
11. The Art Museums - Oh Modern Girls
12. Perfume Genius - Mr Peterson
13. Fergus & Geronimo - Turning Blue
14. Softboiled Eggies - Glassy Eyes
15. Hunx and His Punx - Cruisin'
16. The Dead Clodettes - Strape No. 70
17. U.V. Race - Mash
18. Little Claw - Race To The Bottom
19. The Fresh & Onlys - August in My Mind

Download

"Taking a walk in the sun is nice (providing there is sun. And streets) but is there anywhere we can hear these lovely songs on a dancefloor?". Nice of you to ask, because you can. We have three DJ-sets coming up in the next two weeks. April 3rd we're playing at Dance Magic Dance at The Old Blue Last with La La Vasquez, Veronica Falls and Girls Names. April 8th brings us Hunx And His Punks at Camp Basement with Upset The Rhythm and the 9th April it's time for another Baby Honey at the Buffalo Bar. This time with legendary Chocolate Barry on stage whilst celebrating the re-releases of the Blueboy records on él records with a, wait for it, él-records special!

Guest Mixtape 01: Twin Grrl Records Presents... So Tough So Grrl

We literally grabbed Sian Rowe, our first guest mix compiler, at the Paradise Vendors Inc / Italian Beach Babes launch party the other week when we recognized her as the awesome DJ from the Girls Girls Girls night. We enjoyed her set so much so asked her to do us a mixtape and she kindly agreed and sent us a mix of new girl bands.

Sian is one half of Twingrrl Records [the other half is in La La Vasquez*]. She likes pressing play on records, edits www.neumagazine.co.uk and writes for magazines, newspapers and other websites.

Thanks Sian for a great mix!

Download
Tracklist:
1.Dum Dum Girls - It Only Takes One Night
2.Grass Widow - Celebrate The Mundane
3. Golden Triangle - Neon Noose
4. Finally Punk - Negative Creep
5.Trash Kit - Bad Books
6. Eternal Summers - Able To
7. The Girls at Dawn - I'm Not Sad
8. Best Coast - When I'm With You
9. Tickley Feather - Trashy Boys
10. Tune-Yards - Sunlight
11.Fly Girls - Born 2 be Fly
12.High Places - On Giving Up
13. Glasser - Tremel
14. jj - Let Go
15. Zola Jesus - I Can't Stand

* The great La La Vasquez are playing our club night on friday. Get your tickets!

(artwork by Sian)

ST!SC! Guest Mix on Gimme Indie Radio

The lovely radio station Gimme Indie has just posted the So Tough! So Cute! guest mix we put together for them with some our favourite songs. You can listen to the streamed mix this week over at Gimme Indie during the times listed under "Programtablå". Hope you like it and expect to hear a bunch of these tracks at our club night on friday. Get your tickets and join us at the facebook event.

Edit:
Here are the tracks played on the show. We managed to pack in a lot in the 60 minute slot. Links go the artists myspace pages where there's more tracks, info on gigs and where to get the records

Garbo's Daughter - Private Party - Garbo's Daughter Goes Pop! Cassette
Knight School - Pizza My Coat - Revenger LP
Home Blitz - Is Anybody There? - Out of Phase LP
The White Wires - Pogo 'Til I Puke - Pogo 'Til I Puke 7"
The Hairs - Duh! X 12 - Electric Virgin EP

Christmas Island - Nineteen - Nineteen 7"
Jacuzzi Boys - Island Ave. - No Seasons LP
Deep Sht - Hector - Weird You 7"
Woollen Kits - By A Lake - Teenage Love 7''
The Blanche Hudson Weekend - Noise And Fury - The Letters To Daddy EP 7"

Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard - Found Love In A Graveyard 7"
La La Vasquez - Buoy - M'Lady's 7"
Nobunny - I Am A Girlfriend - Love Visions LP
Davila 666 - Sabes Que Quiero - Sabes Que Quiero 7"
The Fresh & Onlys - Peacock and Wing - The Fresh & Onlys LP

Shark Toys - Stayed Up - Stayed Up 7"
Times New Viking - Teenage Lust! - Present the Paisley Reich LP
Wetdog - Long Long Time To Go - Frauhaus! LP
Feeling of Love - Waiting for the Cheerleaders to Get Drunk - Waiting for the Cheerleaders to Get Drunk 7''
Grass Widow - To Where - Grass Widow LP

Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin - Pop Song - Pop Song 7"
First Base - I Got A Girl - I Got A Girl 7"
Nudge Squidfish - They Call Me Mike Rep - 20,000 Leagues Under Nashville LP
Chain and the Gang - Unpronouceable Name - Down With Liberty... Up With Chains! LP

So Tough! So Cute! First night in London on March 19th

We're really happy to announce the first So Tough! So Cute! night in London and we hope you will be able to come down and dance and have a great time with us.

After running monthly clubs in Sweden since 2007 and having graced dancefloors with mind blowing, sing-along, fists-in-the-sky guest dj-sets at London's own Baby Honey, How Does It Feel To Be Loved, Twee As F*ck and Popfest, we are here to put on a proper indie pop, post-punk, 'twee', diy and garage pop night where the focus is on dancing the night away and making out with someone you probably shouldn't make out with.

Whether it's Field Mice, the Fall, Crass, Belle & Sebastian, Orange Juice or Times New Viking, Fresh & Onlys, Hunx & His Punks, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, PENS or Swedish gods bob hund and Broder Daniel we'll keep the dancefloor sweaty and full of love*

To help kick off our first night we've invited our favourite club UPSET THE RHYTHM who'll be putting on The Sticks to launch their new crashing and tumbling record as well as the amazing post-punky bands La La Vasquez and Human RACE.

So simple. Bands till around 11:30 and then So Tough! So Cute! will provide the dancing of your life.

Live:
The Sticks (Albumlaunch)
La LA Vasquez
Human Race

DJs
So Tough! So Cute!
+ Sex Is Disgusting and Savoury Days DJs between the bands

Friday 19th March 2010
The Buffalo Bar, 259 Upper St, London N1 1RU
8pm - 4am (dance party after the bands!)
£ 4.50 | 3 after the bands
Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/75041

Facebook event
Facebook group
Last.fm event

*If you're new to So Tough! So Cute!, and we can see that there are some of you, yes you in the corner, you might want to click on mixtapes and playlists on the right to see what we're all about. Basically we started the night all those years ago to have a place to dance to the songs we sang along to and jump to in our bedrooms but then didn't get to hear when going to clubs. We really like early punk, labels like Rough Trade, Postcard, Sarah, Factory, early Creation and bands that took influence from that DIY meets Pop feeling. While we may geek over b-sides we always try to play dancable stuff as there's nothing that's makes us happier than smiles and eyes that say oh-my-god-did-they-really-play-that-song-I-always-wanted-to-hear-that-song-in-a-club.

What gets us going at the moment are bands like Black Tambourine, Ty Segall, Blueboy, The Pastels, Chain And The Gang, Camera Obscura, The Monochrome Set, The Fall, Belle And Sebastian, Heavenly, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Twa Toots, The Shangri-Las, Orange Juice, Pooh Sticks, Only Ones, The Aislers Set, The Sea Urchins, Go-Betweens, Hunx & His Punx, Monks, Jacuzzi Boys, Aztec Camera, Dolly Mixture, Grafitti Island, Girls At Our Best!, My Favorite, The Field Mice, Mccarthy, Tullycraft, Hefner, Shop Assistants, New Order, Aphex Twin, Felt, PENS, The Cure, The Wolfhounds, Home Blitz, Razorcuts, Primal Scream, Veronica Falls, Wire, Trembling Blue Stars, Richard Hell, Fire Engines, The Modern Lovers, The Magnetic Fields, Mika Miko, The Wedding Present, Bubblegum Splash, The Bobbyteens, The Tough Alliance, Brighter, Free Loan Investments, The Flatmates, Kleenex, Fresh & Onlys, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Bodines, Comet Gain, Biff Bang Pow!, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Huggy Bear, Mekons, Crystal Stilts, Camera Obscura, Josef K, June Brides, Thee Oh Sees, Saint Etienne, Broder Daniel, Bikini Kill, Hit Parade, Beat Happening, Another Sunny Day, Television Personalities, Buzzcocks and lots more

So Tough! So Cute! DJ-set video at London Popfest 2010

So Tough! So Cute! @ London Popfest 2010 from Jesper Berg on Vimeo.
Our friend Jesper captured a rather lovely moment at the Buffalo Bar on friday night. Again thanks to everyone who enjoyed our set and to the London Popfest people for inviting us

Loud noises at Bardens Boudoir

We went to the launch for the Paradise Vendors Inc / Italian Beach Babes compilation featuring So Tough! So Cute! favourites like La La Vasquez, Plug, Graffiti Island, Male Bonding and Spectrals. Lovely artwork by Jesse Spears and a damn fine selection of songs. It's limited to 500 copies so order it at the Paradise Vendors shop.

Brightons finest La La Vasquez was the first band we caught and they keep getting better and more impressive and makes us want to start a band with every show we see them at and with every chill Freya Vasquez shouting sends down our spines. We can't wait to hear their debut 7" which will be out in March and can be ordered at the Twin Grrl records shop.Oh, if you know the name of this track let me know.

After the Fair Oh's put a smile on everyones face with their bouncy and punky set it was the Cold Pumas turn. Dressed in a white, slightly revealing, t-shirt with black dots, an impressive mustasch and hair that would make Tintin jealous the drummer came on. Then two guitarists looking slightly lost. And then. And then scRABrrRrraaNNG!!!* The loudest and most fantastic song ever! We haven't heard anything like this since we saw Napalm Death at a tiny student union in Sweden in the nineties where the sound made the windows look like bubble wrap. The band looked slightly amazed themselves that it was so loud after the song and did some fiddling with the equipment. And then they did one of the best gigs we've ever seen. Which sounded even louder. Stuck somewhere between Kid Commando and Beach Boys they delivered a stunning live show and it was hard to tell who was more astounded with the gig. The crowd who stood their mouths wide open and pogoing and dancing or the band who gave each other surprised glances and looked like they were thinking 'Oh My Fucking God I don't know what we're doing but for the love of all that is holy keep doing it and oh shit we're so loud!'. Fantastic! We bought all the records they had with them and so should you do. No idea if they're as good on record as our record player is in limbo but this is a must see live band. Simply stunning. We suggest you go see them supporting (more likely stealing the show) Times New Viking at the 20th March. Buy their 'Jela'12" here.

Spectrals, whose fine Leave Me Be 7" on Captured Tracks last year you should keep filed next to your Creating singles, finished the night with a great set. Looking like they just stepped out of the Back To The Future film they transported us to warm autumn red nights by the ocean. Filled with reverb, 'turn it all the way up', the Spectrals were a happy surprise and a perfect come down and our favourite song of theirs was the slow Everly Brothers inspired 'Keep Your Magic Out My House'. So good.





An amazing night!

* yes we're making that kind of obscure references today