The Score Magazine - Archive February 2009 issue! | Page 4

www.highonscore.com The Score Magazine The edit pad Editor-in-chief Nikila Srinivasan Executive Editor Daniel Thimmayya Content and Operations Ajay Prabhakar “George Harrison! Why George Harrison?” sums the reaction of every person who held our previous issue, wide-eyed looks accompanying the exclamation. Hasn’t the story of his life been done to death and beaten beyond after-life by every magazine that was ever published? Of course, yes. We wanted to bring one of his greatest works back to life in our readers’ heads and we sure did! We strode through a year of unexpected meandering through many twists and have now reached a stability that gives us a wider creative freedom than we dreamed of. Every magazine aims at connecting with its readers. We have a dream too – to bring you the best of the music world, which is possibly walking right by your doorstep as a dangly college kid and his start up band. We’d like our features to focus more on the real person and the music he/she brings. The gloss, sheen and glamour quotients are perks, but not the reasons we choose to bring an artist to our pages. Substance in place of sensationalism, simply phrased. A prince and a rapper who never fail to impress – our cover story this month is a true blue Chennai artists’ feature with Prince Ali and Blaaze in an animated conversation with our team. Tarantino’s Tamil rivals, Gods, Angels and HR managers, Blood & Iron, circus acts from a pop princess. If there could be a common ground for these diverse players, it’s in your hands. Looking back in retrospective, the past year brought with it upheavals that changed perspectives and induced a passion for life in every unenthused soul – ironic, how much we need to lose to make us hold on to what we have. Hope is the most dominant feeling that this country brought with it into the new year. Twelve new months will spring a whole bunch of surprises on all of us. But, for the readers of ‘The Score’ it will still be a year of finding reading pleasure at your arms’ reach in the snug comforts of your nearest hangout. You’ll get used to the surprise that each issue brings! As for us, we’ll continue our tiny squabbles over what to order for lunch, how strong the AC is, why a certain layout shouldn’t be another way and all those things that make our days at ‘The Score’ worth every minute! And still manage to surprise ourselves and you, every time! Concepts and Creatives Alan Hadle Hamilton Production and Logistics Fayaz Mohammed Chief Designer Mohammad Irfan Marketing and Sales G Venkata Krishnan Arvind T Lohith Reddy Ashwin Shekar Indrani Kalyan Content Advisors Solomon Porres Murugavel T Samuel Dawson Art Advisor Mihir Ranganathan Writers Dr. Jyoti Nair Belliappa George Thomas Vijay Iyer Sunandha Ragunathan Rishabh Rajan Ashok Subramaniam Nikila Srinivasan Shrawan Raja Editor in chief Nikila Srinivasan has been a columnist and contributor for several reputed national publica- tions and has authored three books. She has had the honour of being one of India’s Olympic torchbearers at the Athens 2004 Olympic Torch Relay. Photography G Venkata Krishnan Ajay Prabhakar ‘The Score Magazine’ is wholly owned and published by Brand Partners Y215 ,2 nd Avenue ,Anna Nagar ,Chennai-40 For advertisements and feedback [email protected] [phone] Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and illustrations. Views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the publication and accordingly no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof. Advertising copy and artworks are the sole responsibility of the advertisers.