Main Task- First Draft of my music magazines' middle spread

This is my first draft of the middle spread, however, I am not happy about it because I feel the base colour is too dull and it looks boring, for this I did not use any of the photo editing programmes, which is what I am going to improve on my next draft.

Focus group's comments:-
• Too plain and boring
• Doesn’t look professional
• Is not an interview
• Font is easy to look at however it doesn’t attract customers