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Santa delivers new Word early. Only one beard shock!
Posted by Beany on 29 November 2008 - 1:18pm.
In fact a lot more non-beards than beard.
What's the world coming to. It's not even December. Well done subscription department. You deserve your Christmas bonus...
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I haven't even finished the last one yet ...
... but I'm not complaining.
I must admit I did think someone had sent me a copy of Heat by mistake when I first saw the cover (I think it was the colurs and layout that made me do this ... definately not the main picture)
You realise of course,
that this unusually early dispatch means that the Word staff are off to climes exotic en masse for a right old Crimble Beanfeast beyond the gaze of Customs & Excise, leaving us poor mortals waiting 6 weeks for the next new-edition while they party till they drop, celebrate Christmas with their families, then do a monstrous New Year's Eve binge at some luxury Country Hotel, then recover from Tia Maria hangovers the size of Wiltshire before scraping together a thin fanzine-like edition just in time to be published late as the February issue. Tsk tsk.
My first read through suggests this is a bumper issue.
And a a real shock that the Fleet Foxes aren't one of the top ten albums. Well done.
that is a surprise
as it was number 1 in Mojo and 2 in Uncut.
Word gets it right....
It's a tedious, monotonous drawl...
Nothing new, nothing innovative but "oh so arch..."
My opinion only of course...
I too haven't finished
I too haven't finished reading the last issue. It's like being at a fine restaurant and the waiter bringing you the starter and the main course at the same time. Quite indecent.
Christmas is in the middle
But we'll still have a mighty long wait between issues. Unless top elf Ellen has created a bumper Word Annual for Santa to leave on Xmas morning.
But what I want to know, Mr Hepworth, is did the poor unfortunate Nico fan get satisfaction or was she sent away with a credit note and a heavy heart? (Sorry non subscribers, this refers to an anecdote in the covering letter).
I suspect Mr Hepworth
deliberately scratched every copy of the Nico album in the shop, just to see if anyone who bought the album actually listened to the ghastly thing rather than just displayed it conspicuously but artfully in a suitable corner of their carefully appointed fashionable gaff.
Subscribers cover ?????
Looking at it again my copy doesn't seem to be a subscribers special editon without the coverlines.
It doesn't match teh picture of the subscribers' copy on the ad inside and lacks the two magical words "special edition"
Bit of a cock up?
Mind you, I'm not really bothered. Doesn't effect what seems like a fine end of year issue. I was particuarly plaesed to see an interesting top 10 albums of the years. I had a flick through Q in Borders to find an unintentionally hilarious best albums list seemingly made up of all this years "major" releases (Kaisers, Razorlight, Killers, Kings of Leon etc etc). I really don't know why they bother.
I demand a refund
I too appear to have the Far From Special Edition.Thought my copy of Take A Break had arrived early.
Well, is there is, or is there ain't, a Special Edition?
I noticed my subscription copy seemed to have an awful lot of verbiage all over the cover, for a Special Edition. Then I realised the cover didn't say "Special Edition". Oh well, I thought, fair enough - after all, the cover wasn't a single portrait this month, but a collage of 2008's "faces", so maybe the editorial team didn't deem this to warrant a Special Edition version of the cover. Okeydokey. But then: pages 44-45, subscription offer, and a photo of the Special Edition version of the very issue I was reading! SO, Word-folks, what's the deal? Was the illustration a mock-up, and you forgot to actually get any Special Editions printed? Or what? Either a cock-up or a swizz, wot?
Honest answer
Neither a cock-up nor a swizz. There was so little difference between the subscribers edition and the regular one this month that we decided at the last moment not to run with the former - the fear being that this version would find its way into the stores... and because it doesn't have a barcode, this would be disastrous. We were just being very, very careful.
Fair enough
(Gawd, we don't get service like this anywhere else, do we? You spoil us with your prompt and honest answers, sir!)
Honest?
That's all we wanted to know. Ta muchly Fraze.
Besides...I still got my personal letter from Mr Hepworth. Bet nobody else got one of those. Huh?
You only got a letter?
Most of us get a personal visit. You haven't been misbehaving again, have you, Beany?
I've been super-duper good this year
So he promised to come down my chimney on Christmas Eve with an extra special present just for me.
Trouble is, do I want the complete boxed set of The Wire? Oh well, it's the thought that counts.
A real treat
A Saturday morning and over a week early. Thank you so much. I even had something to read whilst pretending to watch my son play football.
Word Annual
Carl Parker, above, was, I think, joking about Word doing a bumper Christmas annual. But I actually think this would be a great idea. There’s plenty of scope for a bumper package of “Wordy” “stuff” that might seem out-of-place, or a waste of valuable space, in a “normal” issue, but would work well in an annual one-off that stood outside the main run of issues. It‘s not only kids’ comics that do “annuals”. Private Eye and When Saturday Comes have done them for a while and very good they are too, both for readers and the publishers (they make money). I think it could be a really great thing, both editorially and commercially.
In my collection
of non-valuable antiquities and memorabilia I recall I have hardback annuals from the NME and Music Scene. Also more than one Tony Blackburn annual and a Police annual. The group not the boys in blue.
Is it time I should be worried?
Great idea
...and part of the contents could be quickly generated by distilling a few of the year's Word website threads into some sort of coherent shape. I've seen this sort of thing done elsewhere, and it can work well. All it would take would be for those concerned to give consent for their deathless words to be used (in fact there's probably some sort of usage consent implied when we sign up on the website). For my part I'd be happy for any of my comments to be used in any form by Word mag, without any kind of recompense, and I'd bet most of those here would feel likewise. (Anyway, seeing your words in print is its own reward - the principle of "egoboo").
The WORD is out...
...EXCELLENTé!
Humble Apology
I slagged off the last issue. This latest one is simply brilliant and with plenty of articles to keep me going until at least mid December. Thank you.
Likewise...
Great issue, but Andrew Collins is WRONG about grey squirrels! The litle furry bastards are just rats with good PR.
Your thinking of
the X Factor judges...
Its early, but I still have to wait...
This year's Christmas present from my mother-in-law?
A subscription to The Word
When did my first subscription issue arrive?
On Saturday
What happened next?
My wife pointed out the magazine was a Christmas present, snatched it from my hand and hid it somewhere in the house.
I'll be given it back - fully giftwrapped - on Christmas Day.
I'm the page 43 fella
Yes it's me in the peaked cap doing the Andy-Scott-From-The-Sweet-A-Like look
OO-er
I thought it was a laydee in the photo. You SURE it's you?
I feel another thread coming on...
Oh yes it's definitely me
I was on a Sweet meets Hanoi Rocks buzz you see. Our Keyboard player of the time is now a Professor at Leicester University...