Hooray! Pure Groove are opening their new shop on the 2nd of June. They will then proceed to spend the rest of the month celebrating that fact. Again, hooray.
Those celebrations include live performances from the likes of HEALTH (pictured), Mystery Jets, Lykke Li, White Williams and Ipso Facto, as well as a fair number of film and photo exhibitions.
Pure Groove’s new shop at Smithfields market in north London will base its musical stock around the Pure Groove 100 – what the people running it deem to be the 100 most exciting releases of the moment – and will also give prominence to other offerings, showcasing art, visual and sartorial fare alongside any other ephemera in need of a shop shelf, such as a new clothing range put together in conjunction with London promoters No Pain in Pop.
Good times – full schedule for the shop’s relaunch below:
Home:
June
2 Mystery Jets, Jeremy Warmsley @ 6:30pm
4 Lykke Li @ 6:30pm
5 My Bloody Valentine live photo exhibition + Sonic Cathedral and Maps DJ sets
7 Ipso Facto @ 6:30pm
9 Metronomy @ 6:30pm
10 HEALTH @ 1:30pm
11 White Williams, FACT magazine issue launch @ 6:30pm
12 Black Devil Disco Club @ 6:30pm
13 O Children, SCUM @ 6:30pm
14 Team Robespierre @ 6:30pm
18 Amelia’s Magazine issue 9 launch @ 6:30pm
19 Tokyo Police Club @ 6:30pm
20 The Chap, Gable 6:30pm
23 Dockers MC spoken word night
24 Pure Groove/Partizan’s Music Shorts Film Night
26 Blissfields Inshop with Mumford and Sons+ Special Guest
30 Bromhead’s Jacket single release party
Away:
June
3 – Pure Groove Live! @ White Heat, Madame Jojo’s w/Shout Out Louds, Hatcham Social, The Yell
12 – Pure Groove Live! @ The Macbeth w/Team Robespierre, Black Devil Disco Club, O Children
16 – Pure Groove Live! @ DURRR, The End w/Esser
17 – Pure Groove Pop Quiz @ Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell
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That's a better line-up
over the course of a month than many actual music venues will be able to muster. Certainly in my neck of the woods anyway (500 miles north of London)
good way to test your new shop's structual integrity let HEALTH loose
I can walk here in my lunch hour
Kind of an odd location but thanks!
me too
I work about 10mins away. I'll definitely be at HEALTH
*cries*
do it in september when i'm back for uniiiiiiiiii.
Shit location
Just looked at this on a map. Is this really much better than Highgate??
Apart from going to Fabric I never go to this part of town.
At least the new Rough Trade has other stuff around it.
Pure Groove
is basically one of the best independent stores in the Uk hands down!
Shameless Plug...
But Health will be playing later that night too at White Heat. Ahem. PG is a rather good shop. Between them and RT they fill all my musical needs (that the internet does not) and the ride between them is about five miutes! Wonderful!