Glasgow has produced more than its fair share of bands that like their pure pop melodies delivered under a blanket of dirty noise, like a dropped lollipop, and Tuff Love are more than fit to join that proud lineage. Formed by friends and front-people Julie Eisenstein and Suse Bear in 2012, they set about writing and recording an EP in Suse鈥檚 bedroom, and sent their first songs to the Uploader two years later. They quickly found that Sweet Discontent had been seized upon like buried treasure by both Jen and Ally鈥檚 Introducing show, and Huw Stephens.
Vic Galloway of 麻豆社 Radio Scotland proclaimed them a personal favourite, with similarly fulsome praise coming quickly from Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq and Rob Da Bank as they released self-deprecatingly-titled EPs Junk and Dross. Slammer, the lead track from Dross, won the Rebel Playlist on 麻豆社 6 Music, and was later playlisted, as was That鈥檚 Right and their most recent single Groucho. They鈥檙e also Glastonbury veterans, and have opened for Ride, Real Estate, Perfect Pussy, Joanna Gruesome and Honeyblood, which can鈥檛 have been easy for any of those bands, as they鈥檙e clearly a Tuff act to follow.
Glasgow has produced more than its fair share of bands that like their pure pop melodies delivered under a blanket of dirty noise, like a dropped lollipop, and Tuff Love are more than fit to join that proud lineage. Formed by friends and front-people Julie Eisenstein and Suse Bear in 2012, they set about writing and recording an EP in Suse鈥檚 bedroom, and sent their first songs to the Uploader two years later. They quickly found that Sweet Discontent had been seized upon like buried treasure by both Jen and Ally鈥檚 Introducing show, and Huw Stephens.
Vic Galloway of 麻豆社 Radio Scotland proclaimed them a personal favourite, with similarly fulsome praise coming quickly from Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq and Rob Da Bank as they released self-deprecatingly-titled EPs Junk and Dross. Slammer, the lead track from Dross, won the Rebel Playlist on 麻豆社 6 Music, and was later playlisted, as was That鈥檚 Right and their most recent single Groucho. They鈥檙e also Glastonbury veterans, and have opened for Ride, Real Estate, Perfect Pussy, Joanna Gruesome and Honeyblood, which can鈥檛 have been easy for any of those bands, as they鈥檙e clearly a Tuff act to follow.
