Improvements

I then asked potential readers for any improvements or recommendations they could offer:

Along side the improvements to the visual aspects of the magazine, I also made several changes to the magazine article. This corrected mistakes and changed the length also:

Here is the old article:

I’m joined today by an artist who until only a few months ago would have been unheard of. Yet, today he’s a household and very commonly recognised name: it’s Restless!

Thanks for joining me today Restless, I’m going to ask a few questions that have been send in by our readers. So, firstly:

 

From where does the inspiration come for your songs?

 

Inspiration can come from anywhere, be it an everyday task or a once in a lifetime experience. I find that the best way to find inspiration is not to look for it, but instead to let it find you. It may be through a series of events or a simple conversation. For example, my first song ‘Lies’ was inspired just that; a lie:

 

When performing my first gig, I was not on a list of people who would be performing- due to it being such short notice. Which, naturally, meant that a group of bouncers questioned whether I should be able to pass. Despite explaining to them the circumstances they didn’t believe me. They just looked me down and assumed I was just another ‘wanna-be’ due to how scrawny I was, and the way I was dressed. In a moment of desperation, I had no choice but to lie and make out that I was the best friend of the owner of the club. By doing so, I acted as though I could get the bouncers fired unless they let me pass. Surprisingly, this worked, and they let me continue to the stage. If it wasn’t for that small lie, I wouldn’t have performed that night, meaning I wouldn’t have been noticed and coincidently wouldn’t be here today! It was that small lie, only told in the heat of the moment that resulted in my whole career. And so we return to my original point; “inspiration can come from anywhere”.

 

Did you always have a love for music?

 

I’ve loved music for as long as I can remember. I distinctively remember getting a cassette player for my 6^th birthday, treasuring it ever since. For months on end I would listen to old cassettes, from a whole host of genres. Be it rock, dance, pop, solo’s or orchestras. Due to this, my parents then bought me a guitar for my 8^th birthday. A guitar that I still have today. It was on this guitar that I learnt to play- as a hobby which then progressed into a career. Even to this day I reminisce over the days when I was a young boy, aspiring to be the next Jimi Hendrix...

 

I then changed the article to become this:

I’m joined today by an artist who until only a few months ago would have been unheard of. Yet, today he’s a household and very commonly recognised name: it’s Restless! Restless enters the room very calmly, with a smirk across his face – this could be interesting!

Personally, I find it extremely difficult to find inspiration, yet Restless has had multiple number ones over the last few months, all of which have a story behind them. So I wondered, were does he find his inspiration? “Inspiration can come from anywhere, be it an everyday task or a once in a lifetime experience.” he exclaimed, “I find that the best way to find inspiration is not to look for it, but instead to let it find you. It may be through a series of events or a simple conversation. For example, my first song ‘Lies’ was inspired just that; a lie:

“When performing my first gig, I was not on a list of people who would be performing- due to it being such short notice. Which, naturally, meant that a group of bouncers questioned whether I should be able to pass. Despite explaining to them the circumstances they didn’t believe me. They just looked me down and assumed I was just another ‘wanna-be’ due to how scrawny I was, and the way I was dressed. In a moment of desperation, I had no choice but to lie and make out that I was the best friend of the owner of the club. By doing so, I acted as though I could get the bouncers fired unless they let me pass. Surprisingly, this worked, and they let me continue to the stage. If it wasn’t for that small lie, I wouldn’t have performed that night, meaning I wouldn’t have been noticed and coincidently wouldn’t be here today! It was that small lie, only told in the heat of the moment that resulted in my whole career. And so we return to my original point; “inspiration can come from anywhere”.

It’s quite clear that Restless has a passion for music, but I wondered: did he always have this passion?  “I’ve loved music for as long as I can remember”, he replied, that grin once again growing across his face. “I distinctively remember getting a cassette player for my 6^th birthday, treasuring it ever since. For months on end I would listen to old cassettes, from a whole host of genres. Be it rock, dance, pop, solo’s or orchestras. Due to this, my parents then bought me a guitar for my 8^th birthday. A guitar that I still have today. It was on this guitar that I learnt to play- as a hobby which then progressed into a career. Even to this day I reminisce over the days when I was a young boy, aspiring to be the next Jimi Hendrix...” Anyone else with a desire such as this would have little to no hope, but this young lad clearly has potential.