Planning Production

Front cover images – Solo male artist – casual clothing – outside at night in front of graffitied wall – mid shot/medium close-up – blowing smoke from cigar, scowling, eyes focussed on camera

Coverlines – main coverline: Kurt Morrison, sub-line: It’s a newcomer take over.

Other cover lines:

·         JC & the 2 steps – ‘we are Hip-Rock’

·         John Paul-Jones – ‘we owe it to the blues’

·         Exclusive from Alt-J

·         War of Words- Noel’s new attack

Contents page –

Regular content

·         The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – reviews of the most recent gigs, albums and singles  - p14

·         At home with Homme – Josh Homme’s weekly report on this week’s music  - p18

·         Best of the week! – Images, gigs, albums, singles, lyrics, (most random) instruments – p30-34

·         Fan letter page – p50

·         Gig guide/tour dates – p56

·         Competitions – p57&58

·         Posters - various

Feature articles

·         The best festival performances of the year – p2-3

·         One For The Road - Arctic Monkeys on touring the world – p4&5

·         2^nd home – Artists tell their favourite venue’s to play -  p8

·         Joey Morton on We WERE Beautiful – 11&12

·         Alt-J – ‘we will make another album after we have finished on films’ - p13

·         ‘Serging’ ahead – why Sergio Pizzorno believes Kasabian are the best band in the world – p16

·         When Florence met the Machine – Florence Welsh met Rage Against The Machine – p19-20

·         Interview with Kurt Morrison – p21-23

·         The roots of alternative rock – p25

·         The Roots – bringing rock into rap – p26

·         Black Sabbath – are they getting back together for good? – p27

·         Kings of Leon – are the Kings back on their throne? – p28

·         Reminiscing on Hendrix at Woodstock ’69 – p35

·         Rumours – which old star will be hitting the stage this year? – p36

·         From best to worst: Led Zeppelin’s albums – p37-38

·         Where did Led Zeppelin really get their music from? – p39-40

·         Creating their own channel - JC and the two steps on playing in France – p42

·         History of... – a look at the history of Red Hot Chili Peppers – p45

·         From beginning to end: the life, career and death of Sid Vicious – p46

·         Noel Gallagher sits down with us to talk future, friends, feud and football – p47-48

·         New band on the block – Don’t Mess with the Phunk – p53&54

Images for contents page

-          Long shot of Kurt Morrison in reminiscent pose

-          Medium close-up of Joey Morton sitting with guitar next to him

-          Picture of a jumble of CD’s for review

-          Picture of the front cover next to ‘Contents’

-          Possibly a picture of Don’t Mess with the Phunk in a long shot

Double-page spread –

My article will be based on the split of We Were Beautiful in July with guitarist, Joey Morton. It will be in full article format, firstly introducing the band and then going on to the reasons of the split, and finally, the future of Joey as an artist.