when twee gets creepy

Field Mice & Pastels aren't creepy.

god yes

just say no
HERION KILLS!

how about pooh sticks? they're not very creepy

Oh, OK, I guess Teletubbies may be an exception....

Preamble: This show takes place in a dive bar in the shittiest neighbourhood in town...

The little show that could returns hosted by Emma Cooper. Bring a friend, your jammies and we bring the pillows and blankets for fort building! Come early and help us build a fort in which we will tell stories, jokes and share music.

Come at 8:00pm to help build the fort. We need anyone who is a BlanketFort Architect, or anyone who was a child, ever.
Show starts at 9:00pm and the show is free!

Our lovely performers are: (lap drumroll please...)

Chris Griffin - This funny human tours around the country telling jokes and can now add 'BlanketFort' to his credentials. His rambly style leads you to interesting or funny or all of the above.
Mark B. Hughes - Just off of opening for Doug Stanhope and being featured in 'Exposed', a naked stand up show here in VanCity, Mark brings a great perspective to his storytelling.
Shlomo McPeake - What can and has been said about this man really doesn't do him full justice. How could it?

plus more to come...

Have we talked about how the food is really GOOD at The Astoria? Tacos for $2.50 are a favourite. Plus now you can drink cheap beer in a fort. Adulthood never tasted so sweet.

#BlanketFort cause we are modern...

That is basically something out of IASIP

A little surprised the hashtag isn't #BwankieFowt.

#hardpass

Another event from these scenesters. Maybe this should go in a different thread (rolling hipster studies maybe) - I wouldn't call this creepy per se as it doesn't involve building blanket forts in the country's poorest neighbourhood, but for fuxake people. Some of them are in their forties...

A romantic sunset acoustic rock concert

hop on your bicycle and come to trout lake park.
fill your growler and pack a picnic.

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FREE CAKE FOR EVERY CREATURE
~Pop tunes about books from Philadelphia~
freecakeforeverycreature.bandcamp.com

I TRIED TO RUN AWAY WHEN I WAS SIX
~dreamy bedroom guitar jams from Philadelphia~
blastreality.bandcamp.com

ROSE MELBERG
~local dreamboat~

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~find us in the trees on the north east side of the lake
~ok jeff ok will be rotating through his extensive cassette tape collection
~i will make light snacks and have picnic blankets available
~bring your dogs that like kids and your kids that like dogs.
~$$$$ for the touring bands
~be chill / be discreet
~bring your pals

Just scrolled through that Free Cake for Every Creature bandcamp. Should go over well with the autonomous sensory meridian response crowd.

~be chill / be discreet
~bring your pals

XD

+ Rose Melberg
- an event where Rose Melberg couldn't be more perfect a featured performer

ok jeff ok?

A few years ago Rose enetered a scene spiral where she now only plays in backyards, picnics or (if you're lucky) unannounced at the bottom of the bill to 5 bands you've never heard of.

she def transcended twee in the earlier Softies days, this is an unfortunate development

https://youtu.be/wO4ZA7ezlEg

fill your growler and pack a picnic.

In Scotland growler is another word for vagina

just saying

haha seeing that ad for a show at the astoria makes me regret aggressively pruning my facebook last year

Misread thread title as "when tweedy gets creepy", and I thought, "Which is rather often, come to think of it."

a few years back the tweepop folks in my locale did something v similar sounding to that park one and managed to get Calvin Johnson to play (cf thread title), a whole afternoon of it was way too much but the setting kinda worked for him at least

Patience and Prudence are hot again
https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/tiktok-song-tonight-you-belong-to-me.html

How do I know this song? Must be an ILX thing?

Also I have no idea what tiktok is

sideways from Ghost World, maybe? I love patience and prudence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn8BGyz6ihA

The girl group genre is rife with this stuff. Search Little Peggy March's My Teenage Castle Is Tumbling Down. Also from Patience & Prudence We Can't Sing Rhythm & Blues.

"My Teenage Castle Is Tumbling Down" is great. I'm not sure what makes any of these old songs creepy (or even "twee")...

Mo Tucker singing I'm Sticking With You

Mo Tucker, "creepy"? NEVER. Hm.

Happy 80th Birthday Claudine Longet!!

Wow this is very dark (an SNL sketch from 1976 called "The Claudine Longet Invitational")

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75rski.phtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8IOKKG_PAQ