Win a night in the Hotel Missoni Edinburgh, including a full breakfast in Cucina, Wi-Fi or wired internet, local telephone calls, all on-demand movies, two items of in-house laundry, access to the gym, complementary mini-bar plus a £250 contribution to travel costs.

Hotel Missoni is the debut hotel of the The Rezidor Hotel Group and luxury fashion house Missoni. Opened in June 2009, the lavish hotel overlooks Edinburgh’s old town in the heart of the historic city centre. It represents the most stylish yet professional of hotels. Offering contemporary accommodation and exceptional service in a welcoming atmosphere, Hotel Missoni is the ideal place for meetings, business lunches, entertaining clients and enjoying well earned breaks with partners or friends.  
Missoni know that it is the special touches that make a difference, so you’ll find espresso machines, iPod docking stations, Missoni bathrobes and slippers and a complimentary ‘healthy mini-bar’ in each of the 136 bedrooms and suites. Luxurious Missoni Home sheets adorn the welcoming beds and 26” LCD televisions come as standard.

To enter this competition answer the following question:

What is the name of the designer responsible for Hotel Missoni Edinburgh?
 

 For more information on the Hotel Missoni Edinburgh, visit the website.

Hotel Missoni
1 George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1AD
Tel: 0131 220 6666 Fax: 0131 220 6660
www.hotelmissoni.com
Email:info.edinburgh@hotelmissoni.com 

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Launch into summer 2010 and engage your brain with four fantastic DVD releases from Dogwoof and we have got two sets to give away!

First up is The Garden released 5 July, featuring contributions from Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Joan Baez, and Willie Nelson, this touching film is about a community garden in South Central LA poised to be bulldozed by wealthy developers and the struggle between the urban farmers, feeding their families, and the powerful developer backed by the City of Los Angeles.
 
Next up is Bananas!* released on 12 July a rollercoaster real-life Erin Brockovich courtroom drama about maverick lawyer Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez and his lawsuit against Dole corporation on behalf of 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers left infertile as a result of chemicals used by Dole. Using footage from the trial this is a true David and Goliath battle.
 
The Shock Doctrine is released on 19 July by veteran documentary makers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross; a searing investigation of Naomi Klein’s book and idea that liberal capitalism exploits and feeds on war, disasters and terrorism. Features contributions from Naomi Klein and Milton Friedman with archive footage of Salvador Allende, Al Gore, Alan Greenspan and George W. Bush
 
Finally rounding off the month will be the Oscar® Nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America on 26 July about whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

And you could win all four! The get your chance please answer the following queston:

What is the name of the Dogwoof film, by Robert Kenner, concerning the nation’s food industry?

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Win one of three copies of Underwood: Stories In Sound. Featured on the first vinyl record are Toby Litt and Clare Wigfall.

Launched in May 2010, Underwood proudly presents the first record of short stories! 

Underwood is a twice-yearly publication produced as a vinyl LP featuring two writers. The journal appears in May and November each year and is a limited edition. Born out of a love for short stories and vinyl records, Underwood works with writers to produce a unique recording.

In an increasingly digital age Underwood looks to preserve the short story. Records celebrate the unique quality of short stories by allowing listeners time to retreat from their computers and iPods to experience an intimacy with writers and their work.

The Hare by Toby Litt features an adventure in the Welsh countryside and a chase in the British library. It is an extraordinary meditation on how memories haunt us.

Along Birdcage Walk by Clare Wigfall is a love story set in St James Park of the seventeenth century, where an exhibition of exotic birds provoke a mysterious change in the characters.

The record is printed on 12" gatefold vinyl with artwork by Jordan Crane. If you are not one of the lucky winners, copies of the record can be bought from the website: www.underwoodstories.com

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Win one of two copies of Royal Pains (the USA Network’s most-watched first season of an original series ever during its original transmission in 2009) on DVD, released 26th July.

Having carved a successful life for himself in the big city, with a thriving career in a New York emergency room, a beautiful girlfriend and the requisite swanky apartment, Hank (Mark Feuerstein, TV’s The West Wing, The Hustler) has the rug pulled from under him when he is made the fall guy for hospital tragedy. Having lost everything, Hank moves to the Hamptons with his brother (Paulo Costanzo, 40 Days and 40 Nights, TV’s Joey) and quickly ingratiates himself with the well-to-do residents by becoming a concierge doctor catering for their every whim.

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Apply below for your chance to win a pair of tickets to the "Stop making sense festival", Croatia 3rd-5th August 2010.

The Stop Making Sense Festival is the brain child of former Big Chill head honcho Chris Greenwood and Alex Ruello from Need 2 Soul, SMS provides 3 days and nights of musical anarchy by the sea and is all set to be the ultimate festival getaway of the year. In the stunning site of The Garden in Petrcane, Croatia, attendees will be treated to an array of chilled out, funky beats and musical mayhem to keep them dancing the night away or supping cocktails on a boat party! Line up includes The Very Best, Django Django, Nathan Fake, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Theo Parrish & Friendly Fires (DJ set)

The fesitlval is aimed at more discerning festival goers who want a holiday & festival in one - celebrates 25 years of techno with detroit pioneer DJs on line up

Visit www.sms-2010.com for more information.

TICKET PRICE: £80 general admission. £10 boat parties & club nights on top.

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Award winning stand up comedian and Mock the Week host Dara O Briain hits the road again with his hotly anticipated brand new show, Dara O Briain - Live 2010. The 60 date tour will culminate in a massive run at London’s HMV Hammersmith Apollo which will be recorded for a brand new Live DVD to be released by Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd in November.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dara-Briain-Live-2010-DVD/dp/B00332GQ5K

Dara O Briain is regarded as one of comedy greats by audiences and fellow comedians alike and to whet you’re appetite for his forthcoming Live 2010 DVD release, we’re giving you the chance to win his previous double DVD box set, Dara O Briain The Live Collection.

For your chance to win, simply answer the following question…

What popular comedy show does Dara O Briain currently host?

1.    Mock The Week
2.    QI
3.    8 Out of Ten Cats

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Team captain of Channel 4’s ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ and one of the UK’s most highly acclaimed and original comedians, Sean Lock is finally back on the road in 2010 with his highly anticipated new tour – Lockipedia. The new show is underway across the UK and running throughout the year, the Tour will be followed by a highly anticipated DVD of the same name, released in November 2010, and available now for pre-order at…
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/13705645/Sean-Lock-Lockipedia/Product.html

Sean Lock is one of the UK’s most highly acclaimed and original comedians and to whet your appetite for his forthcoming release, we’re giving you the chance to win his previous show, Sean Lock Live on DVD.

To be in with a chance of winning this great prize simply answer the following question…
Sean Lock is the team captain of what popular comedy show?

1.    A League Of Their Own
2.    Never Mind The Buzzcocks
3.    8 Out of Ten Cats

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On July 12th the latest film from cult director Todd Solondz, Life During Wartime, is released on DVD. To celebrate the continued success of Life During Wartime since the film’s the Golden Osella triumph at the 2009 Venice Film Festival we have 5 copies to give away.
 
Life During Wartime revisits characters from Solondz’s dark indie hit Happiness 10 years after the film’s release. Featuring a brand new cast including indie film heroes Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Charlotte Rampling and Michael Lerner, Life During Wartime follows the tangled personal lives of three sisters and the people they love as they struggle to find their place in an unpredictable and volatile world.
 
For your chance to win just answer the following question; what emotion it the title for Todd Solondz’s 1998 cult film?
 
A.     Sadness

B.     Happiness

C.     Joy

 
To preorder your copy of Life During Wartime visit the link.

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We have a pair of tickets to give away to see Carlos Acosta.

Returning to The London Coliseum with a brand new show, the world's favourite dancer Carlos Acosta will perform his most ambitious and revealing show to date.
 
PREMIERES will see Carlos perform five works for the first time and on the largest stage in London.
 
PREMIERES includes:
 
. Carlos's physically most revealing piece, a new mixed media collaboration with Ahh. and featuring the magnificent Pegasus Choir
 
. A debut in Russell Maliphant's masterpiece Two, made famous in the version danced by Sylvie Guillem and now reworked for Carlos
 
. Royal Ballet Principal Zenaida Yanowsky dancing with Carlos in a work by Edwaard Liang (NDT, New York City Ballet and many others)
 
. A new commission from Danza Contemporanea de Cuba's George Céspedes, following the Company's recent sell-out run at Sadler's Wells and across the UK
 
Tickets from Just £10
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0871 911 0200

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Tickets valid for the Wednesday the 4th of August 2010 only. 

We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to a tour around Chris Watson’s Whispering in the Leaves, 11-11.50 am, 5 August, Kew Gardens.

Whispering in the Leaves is an extraordinary sound installation that immerses visitors to Kew Gardens’ Palm House in the dawn and dusk choruses of the Central and South American rainforests.

Chris Watson is a sound recordist best known for his work on BBC wildlife documentaries The Life of Mammals and The Life of Birds (for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound 1998). Before turning to this career, he was a musician, co-founding both Cabaret Voltaire (1971) and the Hafler Trio (1981). He has since released music projects on Touch, including Weather Report, named in The Guardian's ‘1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die.’

At 11-11.50am on 5 August 2010, curators Daniela Cascella and Lucia Farinati host a guided tour around Whispering in the Leaves, giving personal responses to the work. Daniela and Lucia worked with Chris Watson to produce his installation and CD Cima Verde at Manifesta 2008. A review by Daniela of Whispering in the Leaves can be read at Frieze online:

http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/chris_watson/

For further information visit the Whispering in the Leaves site:

http://www.whisperingintheleaves.org/talks_and_events/guided_tours/5_august_2010.html

To enter simply answer the question below correctly.

For which BBC wildlife documentary was Chris Watson awarded a BAFTA?

A)    The Life of Mammals
B)    The Life of Birds
C)    Life in the Undergrowth

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Two individuals to respond correctly will be chosen a random and receive a pair of free tickets each. Tickets allow entry to Kew Gardens on 5 August only. Entry to Whispering in the Leaves is free.

Whispering in the Leaves can be heard on the hour every hour and lasts 20 minutes. The artist-led tour begins at 11.20am and lasts for 30 minutes.

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Chris Watson – Whispering in the Leaves
Produced by Sound and Music and Forma
Part of the Summer Festival at Kew Gardens
Originally commissioned by AV Festival 08

Win a signed copy of Afro Celt Sound System new album ‘Capture’

Afro Celt Sound System will be releasing Capture, a career-spanning double CD, released by Real World Records on the 6th of September 2010.
 
Cherry-picked from the collective's five acclaimed studio albums, the 25 tracks are divided into songs (Verse) and instrumentals (Chorus). The songs are beautifully re-mastered to lend the sound a new warmth and allow the dynamics to emerge as originally intended.
 
The album contains their collaborations with Sinead O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Dorothee Munyaneza and more.  It also includes tracks featured on soundtracks including Gangs Of New York and Hotel Rwanda.
 
Afro Celt Sound System were the perfect storm: a phenomenon whose confluence of elements swept you away on a journey of light and shade, delicacy and power. When they added diverse new touches – Indian bhangra, Arabic influences, dub reggae, more – they did so seamlessly, in ways that only enhanced their sound and emphasised their openness. A supergroup whose line-up expanded and evolved around four core members (Simon Emmerson, James McNally, Iarla O’Lionaird, Martin Russell), the Afro Celt’s pan-global sound redefined dance music and stumped music critics. They remain defiantly, enigmatically uncategorisable.

For more information – visit - http://realworldrecords.com/artists/afro-celt-sound-system

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West London based independent label Full Time Hobby announces ‘Hobbyism’: label compilation released 16th August 2010. And we have got 4 goodie bags to give away!

‘Hobbyism’ is the place to hear brand new tracks from Fujiya & Miyagi and School Of Seven Bells plus cuts from new psych-folk heroes Erland & The Carnival and label stalwarts Malcolm Middleton and Tunng. The full tracklisting is as follows:

1. Erland & The Carnival - My Name Is Carnival
2. School Of Seven Bells  - Babelonia
3. Micah P. Hinson - 2's and 3's
4. Tunng - It Breaks
5. Malcolm Middleton - Carry Me
6. Fujiya & Miyagi - Taiwanese Boots
7. The Leisure Society - We Were Wasted
8. White Denim - Mirrored & Reversed

In collaboration with clothing label Firetrap, Full Time Hobby ran a competition to design the sleeve for ‘Hobbyism’ and an accompanying T-shirt. The winner, picked from almost 1000 inspired, original and occasionally explicit entries, was a striking geometric design by Manchester-based designer Christopher Nieri.

Born in January 2004, Full Time Hobby was, is and always has been a labour of love, a label run for the joy of music. Six years since its founding, it has a character, sound and ethic all its own. 

Having spread its wings into live events, Full Time Hobby debuted at SXSW in 2009 co-hosting a night with MOJO magazine, and a rematch happened at another co-hosted showcase at Brighton’s Great Escape in May, this time featuring Tunng, The Leisure Society and Erland & The Carnival. Diary dates for all Hobbyists are as follows:

Tunng, Micah P. Hinson, The Leisure Society
1st October, Theatre Royal, The Windsor Festival

The goodie bags include:

1 x copy Hobbyism
1 x Hobbyism t-shirt (men) / vest (ladies)
1 x signed SVIIB special edition cd
1 x packet Micah P Hinson playing cards 

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To celebrate the release Gainsbourg in cinemas July 30th, we’ve teamed-up with Optimum Releasing to give three lucky winners a chance to win a Gainsbourg poster illustrated by the director and graphic artist Joann Sfar along with the official soundtrack.
 
From visionary graphic artist and director Joann Sfar comes a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Serge Gainsbourg.
Gainsbourg is an enchanting glimpse at his early life, growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, and through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s until his death in 1991.

Taking the best from La Vie En Rose and Amelie, Gainsbourg is one of 2010’s highly awaited films brought to us by one of the most beloved graphic artists of our time and the team behind the magical creatures of PAN’S LABYRINTH.
 
To be in with a chance of winning this prize, all you need to do is answer the following question:
 
Q - Name the British actress who was married to Serge Gainsbourg?
Jane Birkin
Julie Christie
Marianne Faithfull

For more information on Gainsbourg please go to official website

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To celebrate the August 2nd DVD release of indie comedy hit Mother of Invention, CultureCritic have 5 copies of the film to give away.
 
Mother of Invention is a quirky comedy about an offbeat oddball who refuses to give up on his dreams. Mixing the genius of Napoleon Dynamite with Little Miss Sunshine’s indomitable spirit, it is fitting testament to the hilarity of perpetual failure and the strength of character needed to just get back up and try again.

The film follows Vincent Dooly (Andrew Bowser) an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an ‘Eddy’ – a prestigious annual inventing award. There’s only one problem… he’s never made anything that’s worked. Now, it’s the last year he can enter and he has some stiff competition from Martin Wooderson, the smug wonder kid who has a long history of winning. But this time, Vincent has a plan and an amazing invention that might just change everything. 

For your chance to win, just answer the following question:

Q. What is the name of the invention award Vincent hopes to win?
 
A.      Woody

B.      Eddy

C.      Darwin

You can pre-order your copy of Mother of Invention here.

For more information on Mother of Invention please go to the official website.

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The Gaymers music quiz is under way! To celebrate, CultureCritic are giving away two tickets to a gig at O2 Academy Shepherds Bush.

For your chance  to win, just answer the following question:

Where is Bestival held?

A) Isle of Man

B) Isle of Wight

C) Isle of Skye

Win tickets to Bestival each week for the next 4 weeks and look out for the Gaymers 'Lost In The Orchard' tent at Big Chill, Leeds Festival and Bestival where there is a live version of the quiz running daily. To enter the quiz, click here

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