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’s 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’s Introducing show, and Huw Stephens.
Vic Galloway of Â鶹ԼÅÄ 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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ 6 Music, and was later playlisted, as was That’s Right and their most recent single Groucho. They’re also Glastonbury veterans, and have opened for Ride, Real Estate, Perfect Pussy, Joanna Gruesome and Honeyblood, which can’t have been easy for any of those bands, as they’re 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’s 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’s Introducing show, and Huw Stephens.
Vic Galloway of Â鶹ԼÅÄ 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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ 6 Music, and was later playlisted, as was That’s Right and their most recent single Groucho. They’re also Glastonbury veterans, and have opened for Ride, Real Estate, Perfect Pussy, Joanna Gruesome and Honeyblood, which can’t have been easy for any of those bands, as they’re clearly a Tuff act to follow.
