For the next few months we will be giving away tickets to some great gigs and festivals across the UK.

How will it work: Each issue of the Culture Guide there will be a star with a picture of our Nissan Cube inside. Spot the Cube and tell us which page you have seen it for your chance of winning. Simple.

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BASS Festival premieres a startling, and previously banned, collection of propaganda material at the Custard Factory. The posters reflect over two decades of social unrest and street fighting culminating in a controversial exhibition of visuals by graphic designers from around the world. Having toured Africa and Asia as part of a British Council-sponsored show it is finally heading to the UK having been banned previously. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

Danny Dyer plays a hustler and fixer in Soho’s sex industry who agrees to be followed and filmed by a documentary camera crew for one week. However, it soon turns out to be no ordinary week; While one of his porn directors is behind schedule, Stanley is kicked out of his apartment for not paying his rent and beaten up by his landlord and Chinese thugs who are starting to encroach onto Stanley’s territory but these are the least of his problems as his life starts spiralling brutally out of control…

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Get ready for a summer of epic proportions as Gatecrasher’s indie/alternative off-shoot Supersonic Vague unveils The Stereo Apocalypso, an indoor festival at Gatecrasher Birmingham, marking a blistering start to the summer season.

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It’s hard to remember back to early 2008, when Florence Welch was peddling Girls Aloud and Cold War Kids covers and testing out early ramshackle versions of her own material during those first formative shows. Fast forward to 2010, and she’s officially the UK’s biggest female solo star: she’s won a BRIT, collaborated with Lord Dizzee, contributed a song to the new ‘Twilight’ flick, and debut album ‘Lungs’ hasn’t been lodged from the Top 10 for nearly a year. Pretty good for a ginger from Camberwell.