On Oct. 16th, Tuff Meat will be celebrating it’s one-year anniversary at The Gladstone, with what they call the “sweatiest, booziest sweaty booze fest of all time.”

We’re listening.

In honour of the indie dance party’s birthday, we sat our Jen down with their Jens to talk about funeral songs, My Little Pony, and easy tail.

Why Tuff Meat and not Loose Vegan?
The Jens: The meat is the best part of everything, literally and metaphorically.

If you were to die tomorrow – what song would you want played at your funeral and will we hear it at Tuff Meat?
Jen O: The Funeral (Band of Horses) during the ceremony and Neil Young’s Long May You Run as the hearse pulls away. We probably wouldn’t play either at Tuff Meat.
Jen R: A Violent Yet Flammable World – Au Revoir Simone. We would play this one.

What kind of guys can we pick up at TUFF MEAT? And are they easy?
You’ll either pick up a hipster babe who has already fucked at least one of your friends or the clean cut type with a day job who just broke up with his long-term girlfriend. And yes, pants have been known to drop both during and after Tuff Meat.

If you were to metaphorically compare Tuff Meat to an animal doing an action – what would that be?
A fire-breathing dragon wearing a beer helmet doing the robot.

As a child, what toys were your favourite?
Jen O: Back in those days we didn’t have toys. Just rocks and chunks of wood.
Jen R: My Little Pony, Barbie – the girlie stuff.

If you could project videos on the wall in the background of Tuff Meat, what would they be of?
We used to do this when we held Tuff Meat at the Chelsea Room (R.I.P). We liked Barbarella, but anything involving space, zombies or interesting creatures would probably work.

At 2AM what’s happening at TUFF MEAT?
People are making out in the corner, some drunk person who just showed up and has no idea what’s going on is requesting Bob Marley, one of our friends is stumbling around the dancefloor wearing a sombrero, someone is falling on their ass. The rest of us are still pounding beers and dancing to Night Moves.

Who do you not want at your night? Has there ever been someone who totally fucked up your entire party?
We maintain a strict “No Dickhead” policy. Once in a while one will sneak in and request Oasis or throw a fit because we play classic rock at the end of the night, but we usually just tell these people to piss off. Like, if you don’t understand why it’s important to rock out to Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen at 2am while splashing your beer about the dancefloor then just get out.

You are celebrating Tuff Meat’s one year – what does that mean to you?
It means we were right when we first discussed the fact that this city needed a night where people over 25 could dance their faces off to music that doesn’t suck.

Name five songs we can dance to – for suresies:
Jen O: In Between Days (The Cure), Here Comes Your Man (The Pixies), The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth (Clap your Hands Say Yeah), DVNO (Justice), Private Eyes (Hall & Oates)
Jen R – Toby Take a Bow (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), Age of Consent (New Order), Skeleton Boy (Friendly Fires), Heads Will Roll (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Reeling in the Years (Steeley Dan)