BLAG magazine is created, owned and run by British twins Sally A. Edwards and Sarah J. Edwards, who have a huge wealth of experience and knowledge in the music, entertainment and PR industries. They co-Publish and Edit, Sally is the Design and Art
Director, Sarah is Photographic Director. They set BLAG up through a love of magazines, music, culture, photography and design.
They were noticed and now command the respect and interest of some of the biggest names particularly in the music and film industry.
Now their goal is to evolve and grow to gain major recognition and create huge awareness for those it features and works with.
They take everything that is conventional about magazine publishing, flip it and produce BLAG from a different angle. Not run of the mill, not cookie-cutter and not follow-the-leader.
Before setting up BLAG, both Sally and Sarah had successful careers in the music and entertainment industries promoting and managing independently for major artists and labels. Between them they have 20 years music industry experience.
Sarah J. Edwards represented Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Travis, Page & Plant and Public Enemy. She was hip hop editor at the infamous NME.COM introducing Ludacris and OutKast amongst others to the NME.
Sarah is also an accomplished photographer having shot for Rolling Stone, Dazed & Confused and for campaigns such as Evisu.
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Sally A. Edwards represented the Beastie Boys’ label Grand Royal breaking new acts onto prime British television and was PA to Hollywood producer Cary Woods (Scream, Swingers, Kids), Gina Mingacci and director, Harmony
Korine (Kids). As a writer, Sally has contributed large features for i-D, Dutch, Nova and Zoo (Germany).
Their longevity in the industry has won them respect and trust with some of the biggest names in the business such as; Nicholas Coleridge, Ioan Gruffudd, George Pitts (Director of Photography, Life Magazine), Beastie Boys, Lyor Cohen, The Game, OutKast, Pharrell Williams and Public Enemy.
BLAG promotes talent integrity based on ability and skill not simply notoriety. BLAG is designed to deliver the music, film and the arts industries and its readers a fresh and unique approach from how they are usually presented and depicted in magazines.
BLAG presents the people and their talents the way they see and respect them. It takes away the usual stereotype and sensationalism and introduces the reader to the actual personalities through informative, witty, non-critical editorial and realistic photography.
Many talents know how the press can stitch them up.
BLAG doesn’t take quotes and twist them, BLAG isn’t interested in gossip or presenting them out of context. Because of this, BLAG has won exclusive features with some of the most successful talent from OutKast, Nelly Furtado, Ioan Gruffudd, Adrien Brody, Joseph Fiennes, Kasabian, James McAvoy, Queens of The Stone Age and Daft Punk, to Beastie Boys.
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