some of it was true!

You’ve gotta love Pure Groove, haven’t you?  First it was a cool Smithfields record store.  Then it was a cooler record store that held free gigs by cool bands.  And now… now the world.  Speed dating nights to recent singles, mini-festivals, ale sessions, late licences… Pure Groove is less a record store nowadays than an independent music Shangri-La, a multi-function venue that single-handedly makes you think everything’s going to be okay.

I gush thus because one of the latest and greatest Pure Groove innovations is re-surfacing next week.  I speak of the Not So Silent Film Night, wherein a guest DJs provides an imaginary soundtrack to an old film played without its audio.  This tends to be creative – in Pure Groove’s words, “tense, eerie music in tense, eerie scenes, and full on sex rock in the naughty bits”.  Dancing, singing and screaming is encouraged, as is fancy dress.  If you’re wondering whether anyone actually watches the film, the answer is..  yes – but only sort of.  The night’s such a success it’s now sponspored by Last FM, no less.

The next Not So Silent Film Night is next Wednesday 13 January.  The DJs will be the Peanut Butter Jelly Time hip-hop crew and the film will be The Lost World.  Not Jurassic World part II, though, but the 1925 Conan Doyle novel adaptation, meaning definite scope for some fucked-up beats.   The night gets going at 7pm, with the film starting at 8 and the credits rolling at 11.  And it’s free as usual.  A fiver says T-Rex will feature at some point?