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The summer is almost here which means that the festival season is just around the corner! If you are a  regular on the festival circuit, now is the time to start booking your tickets and compiling your festival survival kit. Whether it be Glastonbury or Reading where you are headed this summer, we have a number of Pure music systems perfect for bringing music to the campsite.

Move 2500

Move 2500
A compact, light DAB digital and FM radio, Move 2500 is ideal if you love radio on the move. The supplied ChargePAK rechargeable battery pack provides up to 15 hours listening per charge and it comes with 20 digital and FM presets. Also included are in-ear noise-isolating headphones – perfect to drown out the sound of noisy campers when you’re nodding off to sleep! SRP £79.99.

Move 400D
Despite its compact size, Move 400D delivers surprising volume and audio quality via the built in speaker or using headphones. A compact DAB digital and FM radio, Move 400D is a go-anywhere radio with superb battery life. With support for all current European and Australian digital radio standards, Move 400D is the ideal travel radio if you’re off to any international festivals this summer. SRP £89.99.

Jongo S3

Jongo S3
Jongo S3, our portable wireless speaker with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth offers an incredibly rich and vibrant sound  thanks to four speakers and an upward firing subwoofer for powerful bass. The S3’s versatility is unrivalled, with a range of audio profiles to suit your mood- switch to outdoor boost mode to hear the full effect of 360 degree sound. SRP £169.99.

One Mini Series 2
One Mini Series 2 has been engineered to provide punchy audio quality and volume. There’s  plenty of useful features including an input for your iPod or MP3 player, 16 presets and a headphone socket. This is a great sized radio to pack in your rucksack -available in satin-touch black or white finish. £49.99.

One Mini II

Don’t forget you can still tune in and listen to live radio or catch up with podcasts and music using our Pure Connect service.

For hi-res images or samples, please email sarah.riley@pure.com

Festival dates for your diary:
Glastonbury (26th-30th June), Isle of Wight (13th-16th June ),  V Fest (17th-18th August), Reading ( 23rd-25th August ), SW4 (24th-25th August),Camp Bestival (5-8th September)

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We have teamed up with leading radio and music industry partners to deliver a series of curated music discovery features on the new Pure Connect app and website.

Pure Connect uniquely combines a comprehensive on-demand music service with a free radio service and control for Pure’s ground-breaking new Jongo multiroom music system. Users can access over 20,000 global radio stations, around 200,000 free on-demand programmes and podcasts, as well as over 15 million streamable music tracks via the Pure Music subscription service, our on-demand music service that costs just £4.99 per month.

Thanks to the launch of a series of curated features, users can now also enjoy content put together especially for Pure Connect by industry leading partners. Launch features include album recommendations from 7digital and Absolute Radio’s Hometime Show DJ, Geoff Lloyd and a focus on fresh new acts through Emerging Icons, a platform for the most dedicated artists to get heard by both industry and fans. There is also a special launch feature on Manchester band, Folks, who performed at the Jongo launch. Music fans can listen to their debut album, ‘I See Cathedrals’ and find out more about the story behind some of the tracks. Each feature contains additional content ranging from interviews to related artists, tracks and albums taking the user on a journey of discovery.

All this content and local music can be beautifully synchronised through the home with Pure Connect and the new Jongo multiroom music system.

The free Pure Connect app for iPhone and iPad is available to download now (Android version coming soon). You can also benefit from a 30 day trial of Pure Music.

For more information, please visit www.pure.com and www.pureconnect.com.

For Pure Music vouchers, Jongo review samples and high res images please contact sarah.riley@pure.com.

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Sean Hannam (ERT), Kate Solomon (TechRadar) and Kat Jackman (Emerging Icons)

Most 16-24 year olds are listening to music on their laptop or mobile phone, which doesn’t deliver an optimum audio experience. Do they know? Do they care? This was just one of the statistics discussed at Universal Music’s sound open day (#soundmatters) last night at the legendary Abbey Road studios.

The atmosphere in studio 2, probably the most famous studio in the world with the likes of Pink Floyd, The Shadows and not forgetting the Beatles recording there, was an apt setting for the discussion about how every artist will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure their music sounds exactly as they intended, but for many fans listening to the end result, some of the audio experience is lost in the rush for convenience.

The event was hosted by music journalist Miranda Sawyer and speakers on the panel included Jonathan Allen (engineer/producer, Abbey Road Studios), Ben Hillier (producer, songwriter and studio owner), JJ (evangelist, Dolby) and Mike Smith, president of music, Mercury Records. Our very own Pete Downton (director of cloud services for Imagination Technologies) started off the proceedings by presenting Universal’s research on how fans like to listen to music, which led to discussions around whether sound quality and the listening experience have been sacrificed in the age of the MP3.

Pete Downton presents the research by Universal

Mike Smith presents The Strypes

The Strypes

After discussions about the research the audience had their questions answered by the panel – including Sean Hannam, our guest from ERT, who asked “where are people going to experience high quality audio as part of the retail experience?”

Mike Smith then presented one of the most promising bands around, The Strypes – a four-piece rhythm and blues band who certainly know about sound!

Not only did we get to listen to the delights of The Strypes we then took our guests to see Jake Bugg at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire. You can stream Jake Bugg on Pure Connect now and view pictures from the gig below:

Jake Bugg performs

Watching Jake Bugg – Jeff Parsons (T3), Chloe (Pure), Paul Lamkin (MSN), Kate Solomon (Tech Radar), Verity Perry (What HiFi?)

Jake Bugg

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Last Thursday, Vicky and I took some of our journalist friends to see our current favourite band, Folks play the Sebright Arms in Hackney. Fresh from supporting Band of Skulls at Brixton and playing at our Jongo launch, Folks have been touring the UK to promote their debut album, I See Cathedrals. You can listen now on Pure Connect and www.wearefolks.com for more details.

Here are a few pictures from the gig and our pre-gig dinner!

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Pure PR team members, Vicky and Jenny were lucky enough to attend Smooth Radio’s Love Live Music event last night at the amazing Union Chapel in Islington, London. We invited a small group of journalists along to be entertained by Russell Watson, Kristina Train, Honey Ryder, The Noisettes and the legendary Jocelyn Brown.

We were bowled away by the venue. The atmophere and acoustics at Union Chapel were second to none and we were fortunate to be able to accompany the eclectic mix of music with a mulled wine or two!

First on were Honey Ryder, a great band with folk and country influences who really got the crowd going with some audience participation and a moving rendition of Annies Song. They then choose to do a cover of the festive E17′s ‘Stay’, which really got the crowd going.

Kristina Train, an American  singer/songwriter followed with a collection of soulful tunes from her new album, Dark Black.

Then the legendary American R&B singer, Jocelyn Brown, took to the stage and raised the roof with a rousing performance of ‘Somebody Else’s Guy’. Jocelyn even gave the audience an insight into the story behind the song. Salford born, Russell ‘The Voice’ Watson then joined Jocelyn on stage and they performed Amazing Grace together. After a quick change, Russell then came back on stage to perform a number of tracks including a very emotive version of ‘Sweet Chariot’.

The Noisettes topped the bill, were full of energy and sounded fantastic. Accompanied by a harpist, which filled the chapel with gorgeous sounds, lead singer, Shingai Shoniwa, looked amazing in a beautiful white sequinned long dress. She entertained the audience with a collection of soulful but upbeat songs and energetic antics including performing a forward roll on the stage and climbing up to the balcony to finish one of the band’s biggest hits, ‘Never Forget You’!

For more information, please visit www.smoothradio.co.uk and to listen to Honey Ryder, Russell Watson, The Noisettes, Jocelyn Brown or Kristina Train, please visit www.pureconnect.com

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