NME COVER Textual Analyses

Textual Analyses

NME is a very popular rock music magazine in the United Kingdom which has been published weekly in March 1952. It was the first ever British music magazine to include music charts.NME is one of the best - selling rock magazines in the country. NME sales approxiatimately this year are 74,206. NME realeases 28 magazinges a year.

This magazine issue above features, a rock band called manic street preachers a very popular group which orginates from Blackwood,Wales, which was formed in 1986.the rock bands latest album to be relased is called its not war - just the end of love is due to be realesed in june 2010.

the word NME is in capital letters, in the colour red which is the colour used in all of the nme covers. The name of the rock band is printed in a big, bold font. the letters R are backwards. underneath on that title it says. gear up for the gig of their lives. This means that the band are going to perform their best concert of their career. Underneath that title is says special guests, it features the current mainstream rock bands and popular ones, that are producing music nowadays. the biggest band out of that list is the Kaiser Chiefs, which are currently dominating the music charts. the gallicgraphy corprates the traditional manic street preachers logo from 1994 the holy bible album onwards, it is like brand awarennes id maintaned.

the circle on the left, is in the colour red which i presume this is a masculine colour, that colour also symbolises fire or danger, the colour is eyecatching. the layout of the front cover is quite traditional, because manic street preachers are the only band focused on the cover, it is not a collage of all the other bands listed. The header is designed to make the issue extra special, its the unique selling point is that it contains huge concerts advertised like within the magazine. the image is informal with the intimate personnal gaze of the band invinting the audience to attend their concert. 

the background is lacking to draw attention, to the importance of band members rather than distract from it. 

the magazine i would presume is aimed at young teenagers to young adults. i would presume the magazine age range would be between 18-33.