TO celebrate the beginning of another year of top-quality live music, our friends at the O2 Academy Oxford are offering one reader the ultimate gift – a golden ticket allowing absolutely FREE entry for you and a friend to a show every month for the whole of 2013!

While memories of the festive season slip away, and we are left with our collective hangovers, to suffer colds, debt and the wettest weather since the days of Noah, the staff at the O2 Academy Oxford have been hard at work on what looks like being the venue’s best year yet.

Whether you are a fan of pop, indie-rock, jazz, folk, soul or full-on dance music, you’ll find plenty to keep you singing, smiling and dancing throughout the year.

So, grab the Oxford Mail's entertainment section The Guide on Thursday for how to enter this fantastic competition.