Thursday 22nd July 2010
TOUGH LOVE IS 5 – THE BEST OF!!!!

Tough Love turns 5 on Saturday 24th July. As is customary of our age, nostalgia bites hard.

For the wistful revisionists among you too, we’ve collected together a selection of our favourite TLV records released over the past half decade. Share the Soundcloud player as much as you like. It’s perhaps also worth mentioning that some of these songs are still available to buy, in both physical and digital form.

Enjoy. We shall see you on Saturday.

(Photo: Helen Korpak)

Wednesday 14th July 2010
TOUGH LOVE IS 5 – CALORIES

CALORIES

Who
One teenage fugitive and two by-standers.

Where
The Heartlands

Sounds Like
Polyvinyl power-trio blowing the dust off the sun.

Listen
Calories – “Forest Of Vargr”

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Tuesday 13th July 2010
TOUGH LOVE IS 5 – PRIZE PETS


PRIZE PETS

Who
No-wave supergroup went pop.

Where
New Weird Nottingham.

Sounds Like
A mess of help to stand alone.

Listen
Prize Pets – “New Weirdos”

Monday 12th July 2010
TOUGH LOVE IS 5 – CYMBALS

C Y M B A L S

Who
Non-persona band.

Where
Log Cabin, Michigan; Children of God, LA; Summer Camp, Sweden; The road, London, depending on who you believe.

Sounds Like
Proof of Hooke’s Law. Wound up tight, ready to snap.

Listen
C Y M B A L S – “Summer Job”

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Wednesday 7th July 2010
TOUGH LOVE IS 5 – FAIR OHS

Since it’s the Tough Love 5th birthday in less than a month, we thought we’d run a series of posts introducing the bands playing and providing a track to download. Here’s the first

FAIR OHS

Who?
It’s all here.

Where?
The foothills of the Himalayas. And Dalston.

Sounds Like
Someone owns a £20 guitar and shares three copies of Graceland.

Listen
Fair Ohs – Almost Island

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Monday 5th July 2010
TOUGH LOVE IS 5

5 years. It feels like a long time. It feels like it went by fast. It feels pretty good, all in all, to have got this far without someone insisting we stop. Either that, or we just didn’t listen to their callow cries.

On the 24th of July we’ll be celebrating this and it wont cost you a penny. Details just below. Between then and now, we’ll be posting some exclusive and long lost songs from the Tough Love archive, as well as previewing the bands to play the party. Keep checking back over the coming weeks for more stuff.

TOUGH LOVE IS 5 – ALL DAYER
Saturday 24th July @ The Stag’s Head, Dalston

Fair Ohs
Graffiti Island
Calories
Cold Pumas
Becoming Real
Prize Pets
Mazes
Cymbals

DJs
Home.Under.Ground
Dummy Magazine
This Is Tomorrow
Tough Love
…more TBC

FREE entry
14:00 – 01:30
BBQ from 14:00 – 18:00

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