Entering the O2 Academy tonight it’s warm and a tad smelly – reminiscent of the old venue at Dale End. Joining a reasonably packed and truly mixed crowd including students, rockers and punks of a wide age range, we’re here to see the rescheduled Skunk Anansie gig postponed from late year. An early evening performance, SA are due on at 8pm with curfew by 10pm. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

Here at FUSED and AREA CULTURE GUIDE we are very excited to announce our move to a new space. We have been based at Birmingham’s famous Custard Factory for 8 years and had many happy times there but as we move in to our 11th year we felt it was time to make the move in to the city center. So after much searching towards the end of 2010 we have made our move and are very happy that we now occupy a lovely new office space above the fabulous We Are Birmingham shop (pictured).

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For Ian Astbury, The Cult has something of the power of a cult; not a homogenising hippy-ish commune, with robes and hidden sexual practices (although that sounds like a cracking basis for any rock-troupe), I really just mean that he’s seemingly been unable to leave – name changes, two reunions and tens of members later he’s still creating. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

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.

Twitter / Facebook / Myspace: For those of you who don’t pick up a guide we will be announcing the comps online too. All you need to do is reply back to us with #spotthecube and we will pick a winner from all the entries.

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Here is the March issue of our sister magazine.