THE WORD Wins Music Magazine Of The Year For The Second Year Running!
Posted by Fraser Lewry on 28 November 2008 - 5:00pm.
Every year about this time the music business gathers together in the finest surroundings it can afford and awaits the results of the Record Of The Day Awards. These are given out to those seen as setting the standards where both music journalism and PR are concerned.
We're obviously thrilled, then, to receive the much-coveted Music Magazine Of The Year Award for the second year running. Below you'll see a delighted Kate Mossman (Reviews Editor) Mark Ellen (Editor) and Jerry Perkins (Publisher) just moments after receiving the good news.
Picture: Elliott Franks
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Congrats guys.
Extra helpings all round. Hic.
Word of Regret
Just subscribed to your excellent mag. Congrats to all. Does anyone know how I can get hold of the John Martyn and Lemmy issues then my life will be complete?
Back issues
Both appear to be sold out, but I'll have a word with the office tomorrow to see if we can do anything. I'll let you know.
Thanks
You are going up even higher in my estimation. I'm a journalist too and there are always a few spare copies of any publication under the officer hoarder's desk!
Yeah... well done!
Richly deserved.
Very natty jacket Kate Mossman is wearing...
ditto
PS Can't read that signature in the middle.
I raise my glass,
tip my hat and offer heartiest congratulations.
Time to start working towards 3 in a row.
Dear Sir, is this a record?
Two in a row; has this feat been done before? Congratulations! Very well deserved too. At the start of the year I subscribed to Word, Uncut and MOJO. Now I only subscribe to you, which must mean you are doing something right!
Now I have The Flamingos singing "I Only Subscribe To You"
playing on my internal jukebox. How very peculiar. Thanks for the good wishes, Neil!
Congratulation, folks
Keep on doing what you do - same time next year?
Well done you all
Now, when are those podcast awards?
congrats!
that's well deserved. cheers from germany!
Well done Kate!
...oh, and you others as well, I suppose...
Hey ho and hurrahs all round
Raise a glass, shake a leg, and after, get prepping to do the triple next year..
Well done all of you.
Well deserved too. Keep up the good work. Keep not looking down on your readers and we'll keep looking up to you....or something like that
Christ!
Is it a year since the last one? Well done all. Who said you'd never win anything with beards?
YIPPPEEE!!!!!
Congrats all 'round to The WORD crew.
Well done - and good to see
Well done - and good to see you all brushed up for the occasion (I seem to remember last year's photo was the cue for lots of sniggering comments on resemblances to Van Morrison and John Alderton, some of which may have come from myself).
Well deserved...
...given that where WORD magazine leads other monthly publications shamelessly follow.
The three of you look like the new cast of Doctor Who.
Which one's John Barrowman
Which one's John Barrowman and which one's Billie Piper?
Mark Ellen...
...is clearly the new Doctor. This incarnation has a tendency to travel backwards in time to epochal events in rock history. Now the whole family can learn how an invasion of Cybermen inspired J J Cale to write Cajun Moon.
With her satchel loaded with cans of spray paint, companion Kate Mossman is fond of using traumatised Daleks as canvases for her indecipherable street murals.
Introducing Jerry Perkins as High Monitor of an ancient race, charged with preserving the UK top 40 from the meddling of time travellers.
Excellent!...
Well done, very much deserved!
Tour jacket
Please tell me Kate's jacket has "FogHat '74" written on the back
I was thinking more
Black Oak Arkansas '76, but you may be right.
Whatever, I think that bottle of vodka is finally history. Well done all.
See how the winners partied afterwards...
Rock and roll!
Oooooh! Marketing Opportunity
Kate Mossman mugs for subs. Want one! Want one!
Discotastic!
Style tip
That's clearly Mark Ellen's favourite shirt to pick up awards in.
Congratulations. You deserve it
It clearly wasn't a black tie ceremony. Did the invitation say 'blue shirt and denim only'?
Congratulations
Very much deserved.
Trebles all round.
Congratulations
The Word is consistently the most interesting,challenging,thoughtful music and all other culture magazine. I am still ploughing through old magazines and finding nuggets of useful information.
Well Done
More congratulations
What Fuzzyface said above.
As long as
you beat the "revamped" Q. I read a copy in a waiting room last Thursday and it was utter tosh. I will be back next Thursday and will sneak in an old copy of T'Word. I also found myself placing your magazine prominently in my local Tesco. Am I sad or a frustrated brand manager?
One does get swept up
with enthusiasm, when it comes to promoting Word. On a recent journey, we stopped at the motorway services, and I saw there were neat piles of Word, Mojo, Q and Uncut is the fags'n'mags shop. When we left, the untrained eye saw only 4 identical piles of Word magazine. One does one's bit...
Yay!
Another Undercover Word Guerilla.
We should have secret membership cards and badges...
well done
to you all
Jerry
Remember when you and I used to go for "meetings" at the Nordic bar? Them were the days.
Well Done
Very much deserved of course.
What exactly are the 2 boxes on your award signifying...an orange scribble and a black and white scribble? Anyone explain?
I raise a glass all the way over here in the US of A!
Keep up the good work
Congrat
ulations. Richly deserved.
Excellent Work
Splendid news, congratulations to one and all. It's a strange looking award though isn't it, funny picture with scribbles on it. Subscription renewal form posted yesterday.
This just in, hot off the press...
apparently it's art!
Yup... very odd looking thang.
Well done indeed
Would renew my subscription tomorrow,if I didn't have two years left on the current one...
Splendid stuff
Congratulations!
Congratulations
and thanks for some great memories over last few years, of, among other things:
Jude and the cold lino
"...has anyone called a minicab?"
the Zepcast
the gob iron moment (is that why Van now looks at microphones so suspiciously ?)
the Alan Coren interview
"A lady of a certain age" by Divine Comedy
Mark and the Pate de Foie Gras
the smell of vinyl in the morning
my brother on a faraway beach rubbishing my choice of magazine and then reading it cover to cover ...[Keef cover issue]
McGlashan's "harbour bridge"
Kate goes to Nawlins
the ArtVinyl sub giveaway
Neil Stephenson
Clive James and Pete Atkin
Clare Grogan
and so many more stereo-accompanied bus trips and magazine-enhanced train rides
bless you all-long may it continue
Deserved
And not a phrase I often use connected to awards. Well done.
Cover of latest issue for subscribers
Well done on the award - well deserved.
What happened to the "Special Edition" covers?
I have just received my latest issue as a subscriber and it looks more like a "Women's Own"/"(insert celebrity mag here)" cover than the quality previously seen.
You were obviously busy celebrating the award as you went to press!
Congratulations again.
Congrats and watch out for the eagles
So how many of the opposition can boast of staff who know how to warn monkeys that there is an eagle in the vicinity ?
It's the only mag I read
So it must be the best. Well done.
(I have tried the others.)
Kudos,
Well done....The last issue was one of the best i have read, even the prog bits. Now, no more beards for a while.
Excellent but......
Far be it from me to curdle the kudos, but please check that the mag is as "best" as last year; rumblings of discontent have filtered thru' of late in the blog and I would hate to see laurels taken for granted. Curmudgeonliness apart, I await 3 in a row with some excitement.
This months issue, BTW, seems a terrific return to form, on first scan thru'
Hearty congrats all round
As a fellow journo, it's always great to be rewarded for ones efforts and to get an award two years running is especially enjoyable. Keep it ip, please!
Hooray
Congrats to us too for having such splendid reading taste
Jolly good show!
Hammer the screwdriver into the top of the Party 7