I hadn't even noticed it wasn't there.

Sorry

been dropped to accommodate the last minute John Martyn feature.

I always found it interesting, it was always the first thing I read.

Was this the short vox pop thing with artists who have stuff to plug? Nah, let it go. Makes room for more interesting, considered pieces, like the Hepworth one this month about artists etc living up to their first offering. Much more like it.

The point of it was that the artistes interviewed were plugging other peoples stuff, not their own.

I got numerous pointers to good stuff recommended by people I admire.

Bring back the Word of Mouth I say!

... I didn't seem to get introduced to all that much from that wee section. All I took from it was thatfamous people's tastes didn't seem to differ from anyone else's. Compared with the rest of Word it was all a bit m'eh.

was finding out, via Word of Mouth, that Boz Scaggs is a big fan of Rumpole of the Bailey.

it rarely has anyone I care about in it!
I'd keep it though and gladly lose the 'State of The art' cartoon.

I always enjoyed the word of mouth feature - are we sure it has gone for good?

Bring back Word Of Mouth. One of the most interesting regular features of THE WORD. Even if it has been mercilessly ripped off by every other music mag out there.

Trying to work out whether Vernon Golightly, IT technician from Methyr Tydfil is the same person as ptpanyanpickle, demon blogger of this page......
Shame on you. Bring it back.

....I , too, would like to see it re-instated. I got turned on to lots of books, Cds and whatnot through WoM.

Thanks for this. I like WORD OF MOUTH too, we all did, but after six long years and watching its many pale imitations pop up in other publications, I felt it had probably run its course. Also I felt it only worked if you gave people a reasonable amount of space to be able to explain their choices and that often outweighed the amount of space they should have been allocated on the basis of their actual profile. Instead we've added several more single page Q&A formats in which you discover an immense amount about someone reasonably well known in a very short space - and there are still a lot of places in the flatplan where you can meet new acts, reviews and small profiles at the front etc. But I'm glad you liked that slot. It served us very well - in one legendary issue in the first year we actually ran eight pages of it.

but please please please don't think of dropping your best and worst charts. What will I read in the loo if those go?

I agree with milllmollymandy, I loved finding out what celebs/musos/writers/actors/subscribers were doing with their spare time. It gave me ideas on what to check out next. I found their interests very interesting. Maybe it's just me but I suppose it's similar to the feeling I get when I see someone in a cafe reading a book and I'm dying to know what that book is. I have to stop short of actually walking up and asking them. I always thought the section was too short, would've had no problem with a couple of more pages of it. I suppose longer Q&A's will suffice as long as they're questioned on their books, films, etc.
Still think it should stay in the mag though.....

just to dip into a random sample from last year - why would I be the slightest bit interested in waht Dan Snow, Julie Burchill and Michael York are watching/reading/listening to?

WoM was also my first port of call. Then the letters. I was even the featured 'subscriber' back in the day. Which was nice.