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My Interview with the band 'The Blackhand'

Say your name and the instrument you play.Ben:  I’m Ben, and I play the kazoo. [Laughs] No i play the guitar.
Nathan:  I’m Nathan and I play the bass.
Gilly:  Yeah I’m Gilly and what are those things called?
Nathan:  Glockenspiel?
Gilly:  No the aborigine things.
Ben:  Oh a Didgeridoo?
Gilly:  [Laughs] Yeah a Didgeridoo, No I play the drums. We have Benji but he is fencing.
Nathan:  He is our vocalist.

Who would you say has musically inspired your band?Gilly:  You. [Laughs]
Nathan:  It’s quite like a few different things like, because we’re all interested in different genres. I listen to like Grungy kind of rock metal.
Ben:  Belgian hardcore trance. Also Alice in chains is a big influence.
Gilly:  Yeah we’ve got a girl called Alice locked up in the garage she just sits there and plays the piano [Laughs].
Nathan:  Yeah she basically writes all of our songs.
Ben:  Nirvana are maybe a more well known similar genre, Gilly is inspired by the blackhand.
How did you all decide to get together and form a band?
Ben:  I was bullied into it.
Nathan:  Yeah peer pressure, well it started with me and Ben and we used to sit in a shed and write music, then we decided to get a drummer in and make it serious.
Ben:  Yeah this shed was so small when we used to go there like February- March times, We would all be covered in blankets and we could not move. We had to like tell each other were we was going to.
Gilly: It was quite an awesome shed.
Nathan:  Yeah, because they have knocked the old shed down.
Ben:  Yeah it has like a fridge and stuff in it now its more like a summer house [Laughs]
Nathan:   Yeah, it’s come along way since we where there.
Gilly:  So have we! [Laughs]
Nathan:  So yeah, we got Gilly in like a few months later because we wanted to get some sort off rock music done.

How did you all decide on the name the blackhand?Ben:  We just thought of it on a train one day, Because i was reading the paper and i seen something about the Black hand because it was a terrorist group in World War 1, It seemed like a cool name so that’s what we went with.
Gilly:  Yeah, We went though things like Hitler’s erection but we thought that, that wouldn’t go down that well at Barmitzfers.

What would be your dream gig?Gilly:  Download.
Ben:  Wembley stadium, Supporting Metallica.
Gilly:  No. Download.
Ben:  No, Wembley stadium headlining our own gig actually.
Nathan:  That would be the best gig ever.
Gilly:  As long as Metallica are not involved.
Ben:  I am being serious i would like to play in a coffee shop acoustic.
Nathan:  We got offered that at Matthew Street but it never came through.

What is the theme of your new music video?
Gilly:  The new one? Well were toying with ideas.
Nathan:  The one were doing soon?
Gilly:  Yeah
Ben:  All we know is that its going to be out in January, at the moment were toying with ideas.
Gilly:  And were taking a lot of backstage footage, or whatever to kind of throw in the middle.
We have so far got a video of Ben breaking a boxing machine in the middle of Sheffield.
Ben:  I broke it..

What was the theme of your last music video?
Gilly:  Just a house party.
Ben:  Just a good time house party, Yeah on Warren drive it was in the kitchen.
Gilly:  Yepp.

How old were you when you decided you wanted to be in a band?
Ben:  I was like 12; I was in a band in year 5. Yeah I was in and out of bands in year 5 so 12 for me, 11-12.
Nathan:  I started with bands when I was about 12-13 and, it was kind of one of those things were we all get together, and were like oh, were a band now... Evan though no one could play an instrument.
Ben:  You could play Bass
Nathan:  Yeah I played guitar for a bit, then I went to bass. I was a drummer for a bit, but i couldn’t really play the drums.
If you could choose any song at the moment to cover, what would you choose?
Ben:  ‘Rooster’ by Alice and chains, that’s what we want to cover.
Gilly:  I’d agree with that ‘Rooster’ by Alice and chains, I’ve never heard it but I’ll go with it.
Nathan:  We are debating to do ‘Only girl in the world’ by Rhianna.
Gilly:  That’s a really catchy song.
Nathan:  I would personally like to do Lady Gaga.
Ben:  What’s that other Rhianna song?
Nathan:  We tried ‘Disturbia’ by Rhianna
Ben:  Or ‘Bad romance’.
Gilly:  For the launch we should do a collection of shit covers.
Nathan:  I really like that KT Tunstall song as well the one i wanted to do myself was the one that goes ‘Woo hoo’
Gilly:  [Laughs]. All KT Tunstall songs do that!
Nathan:  I cant really explain it kind of just goes ‘ dun di dun di dun di dun, woo hoo’
Ben:  I don’t know all KT Tunstall songs.
Gilly:  All I know is KT Tunstall’s first song that was on T.V.
Ben:  Is it map of the world? ‘Oh her face is a map of the world is a map of the world’.
Nathan:  No I’m pretty sure its a older one.

Does your group suffer from any bad habits?Gilly:  Time [Laughs]
Nathan:  We cant keep up to schedules
Gilly:  Time keeping, We are all awful!
Ben:  Why did everyone look at me then on time? I’m always on time.
Gilly: Its normally one of you two. [Points at Ben and Nathan]
Ben:  Yeah it’s normally me.
Gilly:  I don’t have to travel far; I just have to go upstairs. But we very, very nearly missed out train to Sheffield on the weekend.
Ben:  Yeah we had to run through Lime Street with all the gear, Its was quite interesting.
Gilly:  We had the slowest taxi driver ever.
Nathan:  Oh yeah, Gilly can’t play patterns.
Gilly:  Yeah I usually mess up one bit, just one bit of a song literally all it is, is counting.

How would you see yourselves in 10 years?
Ben:  Making a good living from this.
Nathan:  Sat on this couch right here.
Ben:  On this couch.
Gilly:  Actually no. We are getting new couches from Christmas so probley not this couch but a couch.

Questions i am going to ask the band.

1. Say your name and the instrument that you play.
2. Who would you say has musically inspired your band?
3. How did you all decide to get together and form a band?
4.  How did you all decide on the name ‘The Blackhand’?
5.  What would be your dream gig?
6. What is the theme of your new music video?
7. What was the theme of your last music video?
8. How old were you when you decided you wanted to be in a band?
9. If you could choose any song at the moment to cover what would you choose?
10. Does your group suffer from any bad habits?
11. How would you see yourselves in 10 years?

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Publication Plan

Title: Bang
Positioning statement: The only music magazine that comes with a bang.

Frequency of publication: monthly

Price: £2.75

Distabution: Newsagents, supermarkets, music shops.

Rationale: The magazine is for all people that love music, and it will also be written by people

who love music, the magazine has everything to do with music inside like interviews with artists,

posters and columns.

Style: The style of the magazine will be informal but also very wise with its use of vocabulary,

The magazine will have strong opions of certain things and dont be scared to put what they think

out there e.g. about bands, gigs. The magazine is written for people who love indie music so the

writing and presentation will come across smart and also have a hint of sarcasm in there aswell.

Regular content:

• Opinion Page (Letters about differnt articles)
• Band reports
• Interviews with various artists
• Posters on differnt artist
• articles on new upcoming bands/artists
• Music quiz
• Live lounge (shows artists, singing tracks by other artists)
• how to play that (Page shows you the chords on how to play differnt songs)
• Florence on music (weekly column from florence about this week in music)
• Fail page (Shows artist that have down with there music)
• Copy cat (Shows page on artist songs sounded rather similer)

Faeture content:

• Who did it better? (shows opiniona various artists covering the same song)
• Article with Mr. Hudson
• Insight into how powefull youtube is
• X factor is taking over the charts
• Music legend Paul Mcartney talks about his life in music
• Cd prices rise through the roof
• New competiton (Page on which artists could be threatend by new artists taking over)
• Mosh pits gone wrong
• Things to do and dont before you go to a gig
• The story of how the first band was created
• Top ten unforgettable songs
• Rock around the globe
• Festival competitions
• Win VIP tickets to a gig
• Top 10 bad bands
• Interview with the wombats

House style

Coverlines: Arial black and Arial

Headlines: Impact

Standfirst: Impact 14pt

Captions: Impact 8pt

Feature first paragraph: Drop down capital Impact 5 lines deep, and two first words in capitals.

News first paragraph: first two words in bold capitals

Body text: Times new roman 11pt

Colour scheme: Red, Black and white.