published in the early days of the Word - one - I have no recollection of the portion they published but they left out my humorous dig at the pic of P du N who despite writing the music reviews appeared, in his byline photo, to have no ears.
The second one complained that they were obviously in the pay of Apple to do their ridiculous monthly pimping of the iPhone and their unimaginative Beatles cover features. I've changed my mind. I like my Apple products very much. Beatles though - nah, could happily live without hearing, reading etc.
One other - NME mid 80s, asking why, if cricketing rebels could be banned from representing their country, why couldn't the execrable Queen be banned from TOTP for playing Sun City or be turfed out of the Musician's Union.

circa 1990.

First time under my non-de-goth 'Lovebat.'
Second time as myself.

Very proud, I was.

I have also been on Popmaster & contributed to Radcliffe and Maconie's 'The Chain.'

On Mixing It, way back about 15 years ago, I wrote in asking them to cease and desist with playing the 'sound of white goods' - bands like Whitehouse, NWW, Merzbow etc. The poor dead Robert Sandall read it out on air, I have it on musicassette.

I have loads of letters in there.

I had a competition with a fellow member of the Labour party sneak the names of 80s pop bands into letters complaining about the Tory council.

Managed to get a few in there too, but only the easy ones (too easy to fit "It's Immaterial", "Madness" or "Simple Minds" into such letters) but missed my big opportunity to get get "Flock of seagulls" into a letter when a local sculpture of flying swans had some alteratins made.

My 'first letter" was also in Record Mirror. It must have been 1978ish. Proudly I recall I was actually the "feature letter and I was having a go at Harvey Goldsmith. He had just introduced some form of loyalty club that got members to the front of the queue when buying gig tickets.
I was troubled enough to put pen to paper - but I dont think I troubled Mr Goldsmith.

I also recently had a letter printed in The Northern Echo - saying how wonderful my hometown of Darlington looked after some modifications to the town center had been decried by the locals. The resulted in a couple of e mail replies suggesting I should stay in the US if I liked it so much etc - which merely confirmed my decision to leave in the first place

I can't remember what I wrote (it may have been a joke) but I won a torch for my troubles when my letter was published in "The Hotspur" comic in about 1969/70 aged around 11. It was a very good quality waterproof torch which accompanied me on all my Scout camping trips and I only threw it out a few years ago.

UPDATE: I've just been in the garage and the torch is still there! 40 years old and looking pretty much like new. I must get some batteries...

Mojo
Press Gazette
Some British version of a US comic, can't remember it.

I wrote endlessly to Smash Hits and never got anything published.

apart from on one stupendous occasion. I briefly set up a promotions company to bother journalists about new releases. I was working on an album of the music from The Clangers that came out on Trunk Records and decided that this epochal platter needed an inventive PR strategy to back it up. Mine was formulated after the NME gave the album a 10/10 review and stated that The Clangers were "the best new band in Britain". So I set to work and penned around 20 different letters under different pseudonyms, all praising the record to the skies. In the following week's issue the letters page was exclusively about The Clangers and all but one of the missives had been written by me. I decided shortly afterwards that I would never be able to top this and retired from promotions forthwith. Unfortunately I can't find the page to post on here. If I come across it I will.

However I do have my appearances in various Reader's Charts which are good for a laugh...

Melody Maker, June 25th 1994

Note highly amusing "Leslie" jibe... I think enough time has now passed for me to tell them to go f**k themselves.

Melody Maker, November 4th 1995

Number 10, for anyone who might be remotely interested, was Greyhound Pt.1 by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. I have also just noticed that I included a Stone Roses tune in this one: ahh, the follies of youth.

Kerrang!, 2000-ish

This one's a bit of a cheat as my dear friend Jo was the Editorial Assistant and got me a job packing T-shirts, so it was an inside job.

Last but not least I've had two letters published in The Word when it was Word. One was about Radiohead having a sense of humour.

...but a couple of weeks ago I had a letter published in Private Eye's 'Pseudo Names' column. They did append my name when they published it on their website, though.

... in your actual Word Magazine.

Apart from that I am in The Idler Book Of Crap Jobs and Bad Dates: True Tales From The Single Life. I feel this makes me look sadder than I really am though...

I wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter of complaint after I'd slaved over their extremely difficult Christmas Quiz and come pretty close to answering all the questions. I think the prize was a £200 HMV voucher or a stack of albums, or something that seemed VERY big at the time. I then discovered they'd given the prize to two gentlemen named Tobler and Frame (of Zig Zag magazine, from which I'd sourced most of my answers).
My letter was printed under the line "Quiz Swiz from Kidz in the Biz" . It won me a record token.

in Mojo. I was complaining about the editorial laziness leading to yet another superfluous HJH cover (actually John'n'Yoko), incurring the wrath of some American in the subsequent issue, who basically accused me of stamping on Lennon's grave and all but calling me a fascist!

Interestingly, Mojo have (subsequently?) been tripping over themselves to feature some edgier covers. Strike!

...in response to complaints about 'smutty, overpaid' Jonathan Ross.

It's third letter down, headline Breath of Fresh Air

http://www.examiner.co.uk/views-and-blogs/reader-letters/2010/07/24/exam...

(The Examiner is Huddersfield's daily paper as I'm sure you all know)

I've had letters in The Observer (complaint about two-page spread on American football and only one column on rugby league), League Weekly (defending rugby league pundit Stevo) and the Examiner again (identikit pubs in Huddersfield town centre)

I had one of my blog posts stuck in the letters column in WORD a while back. I had a load of bits in the letters section in LOADED in the early days when it was a magazine with some words in it. But these were all electronic contributions. None were proper letters sent in envelopes.

I bet David Hepworth's going to win this competition.

And a lengthy opinion piece in ...er... "Comics International". Oh yes, and a couple of thousand words in (something along the lines of) "The International Journal for Chartered Surveyors Year Book", which I ghost wrote for a friend - snuck a Watchmen reference in, 'cos I was a geek.

The Guardian, Mojo (twice), Time Out (a few times).
Many years ago I wrote a letter for my youngest brother, which he then sent into 2000AD and won letter of the week. I can't recall what his prize was though.