Repent ye doo-wop harmonies!

"Loathing Mobile Phones at Gigs since 2004"
"I go to gigs for the music, not to take photos"
(Bit of a theme there, sorry)
"When the NME grows up, it wants to be The Word"
(Aiming at the younger generation)
"Kraurockdubstepgarageamericanametalbritpop
oldpopclassicrockhiphopnewwaveprogressive
bluesindiegothcountryacousticjazzglobal"
(Covering all the bases, something for everyone)
"Go on, ask me about their second album"
(Conversation starter)
" I remember when there used to be decent record shops"
( A bit grumpy, but spot on?)
One request. can you please ensure they're in XX/XXXL for the (ahem) "bigger boned" gent?

Or, in the immortal words of David Hepworth, "It'll never catch on"

These are two separate suggestions, by the way.

Also can I suggest the lettering is designed to so that out of the box it’s smaller and denser in the middle of the logo so that when adorning the “beef and beer made“ figures of the mainstay of readership it appears un-distorted and readable (this is mainly informed by imagined physiological effects of the “empty calories” on display in the recent Fray Bento thread).

That or put an umlaut over the “O” in “Word” to make it look harder.

Cult celebrity endorsement that also entwines the Word brand with this year’s mass-appeal music phenomenon:

ROBERTA FROM SPOTIFY READS THE WORD

(Bald statement of fact that can be backed up with photographic evidence.)

.. sort of visual pun involving Star wars and some other apsect of popular culture, I don't know Reservoir Dogs or maybe The Beatles, how about Stormtroopers pretending to be The Who having a slash against a Jawa like that lp cover you know the one or maybe some Lego figures being the Beasty Boys"

sorry I've been to too many festivals lately.

THE WORD:
A MAGAZINE
A PODCAST
A WEBSITE
A T-SHIRT

The Word
“Vastly overrated”
That or it’s companion
“Vastly Underrated”

Or

“I can remember when it was all Magentic Fields round here”

"Music was my first love, George Lamb would be my last"
(are there any Word readers who don't feel like that?)

"My other t-shirt features Richard Thompson"
(couldn't resist it)

"Pub Quiz Secret Weapon"
(I certainly am, and I imagine a lot of other readers are)

"High earning ABC1 male"
(if the reader profiles are to be believed, you've got a huge potential market for these!!)

"<b> Word Blog HTML Master </b>"
(just because it's sometimes rather sweetly HTML 101 here. I mean that nicely.)

and can we have some lady shirts too?
"The Word: it's not just for boys"

apologies. I didn't get much sleep last night.
I'll keep thinking.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.

And I’ve seen Mighty Mighty supporting Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts at Middlesex Poly

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time for a pint?"

.

There. Their. They're My Dear

I Buy Music So You Don't Have To

Intellectual Rescue

Teh Wrod, Seepd Tyipng Since 2050. F7 anyone?

.

Mellow Yellow
Peter Green
Gillan-Era Purple
Little Corvette Red
Album White
Presented By Alan Black
Amp Orange
Temple Grey
Mark Ellen Blue.

Watch out (or Look out)... FPO about

in skinny fit ladies size vest only of course...

or T-Shirt to wear at gigs, back print only to read - "You Talkin' I Punchin'" - although probably not advisable to wear at a 50 Cent or Motorhead gig.

Failing that, a faux-tour t-shirt listing all the legendary gigs that people say they saw but were mostly never really at. Bob Marley at The Lyceum, Little Feat at The Rainbow, the Sex Pistols at The Screen on the Green, The Love Trousers at Cornbury, that sort of thing. David Hepworth should be able to help you with the others from memory...

And look at me now

interviews
opinions
reviews
pictures
free CD

special editions ones with fewer words on maybe just a pithy quote down the spine?

David,
Mark,
Andrew,
Kate
& Fraser

Word T-shirt slogan 2.0

I want my mp3

"Are you on that Word thing again?" The GLW

Apparently, other music magazines are available

Let's agree to disagree... (but I'm right)

I get it once a month, without fail

The Word - You either get it, or you don't

99% True

The Word: big in the projects, the docks, city hall, the schools, and the press.

The Word - Baltimore, New Jersey, Islington.   

"I wonder what the Grateful Dead are doing right now?"

My husband spends hours on the internet and all I get is this lousy t-shirt

"I prefer their earlier work" ;)

Word reader. Better than you.

The Sound Of Young Islington

.

"Return To Form"

or "Sophomores, Beards & Rock&Roll"

How about a Word Massive t-shirt:

a litany (bunched-up, small type) of all the daft topics we’ve discussed on here followed by the slogan:

“there’s plenty of time to waste”

Somebody somewhere has sat down and thought hard to come up with a snappy title - so that you don't have to!

Demi Paradise
Wide-Eyed & Ignorant
Headlines & Deadlines
The Great Escape
Think Before You Think
Say What You Feel
Steady On
Uncertain Pleasures
Money For Nothing
Reasons To Be Cheerful
There's Nothing Like It
etc. etc...

..

The writing's not too small and the music's not too loud.
I don't need glasses. I need longer arms.
Not available in junior sizes.

'Not Just For The Bearded'

'Wordy Rappinghood'

THE WORD
not just a song on Rubber Soul,
nor sacred words carved out on stone,
but pop and folk and rock and roll,
in a magazine that brings it home

XXXL faded black, obvously.

bollocks about music"

I may have misquoted slightly.

And I Read The Word'

on the front.

*Fat Old Blokes In T-shirts
on the back.

.

or maybe
it's what your brain's right for

.

It's not all about squirrels.

'The Word that turned'

.

Word - Read by The Mild Bunch. Or, Take a Walk on the Mild Side
Never Too Old to Rock and Roll

The Word..........much more than the sounds of Islington youth.

'If it aint Stiff it must be the Word'

on the "Those we have loved" thread, I'd go for "I was inflamed by the brown ale" in parentheses, with T. Collier in smaller font next to it. Presumably there would be rights issues?
I'd wear that!

(on the front)

And all I got was this lousy t-shirt
(on the back)

This magazine does not suck
(I'm trying to imagine a graphic to emphasise the message)

It's no worse than the others

by the trail of our blogs..."

I still wear t-shirts with slogans on them

or

NO, I don't think it makes me look fat

Seriously; no one over 40 or 14 stone should wear t-shirts. Could we have a Word blazer or something? Slippers with "My other leg's a martyr to sciatica" on them?

'If thou hast to ask "RT? Who he?" then perhaps The Word is not for thee.'

Here is Beatles band

Have you heard? The word is love

For Hep cats and Ellen gurus

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. Got it you heathen M**o reading bastards?
(Thats in khaki, only for the Word paramilitaries obviously)

A beard is for life not just for Christmas

The Word
Seven Letters
Two Words
Infinite Opinions

so wrongity wrong be so rightity-right"

"Doing old since 2005"

"Dodging fun prevention officers since 2005"

"Let's do the randomiser...again"

'Landfill indie? Yeravin'alarfaintcha?'

'The Word - sifting the cultural wheat from the chaff on a monthly basis.'

Not very rock n' roll, but true...

"PLAY SOME OLD!"

Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Kate Bush, Spooky Tooth - your boys took a hell of a beating

Intelligent life on planet rock as any fule kno

LIQUOR-SHE'LL LOVE IT

The Word
sometimes right
sometimes wrong
always certain

Hot Topics - Last 7 Days

The Angels, Islington

A memory from my Manchester student days twenty years ago..

On the front: Th

On the right sleeve: e Wo

On the back: rd

The copyright has probably expired by now so you can't get sued by James.

meets Method Man"

LET'S FACE IT - MODERN MUSIC IS RUBBISH

NO DIDO

As good as it used to be.

"Do Some Old" or is it "Play Some Old"

"Move along please, Nothing to see here"

"Hide the steak...its Chrissy Hynde"

"Smash Hits for 50 Quid Bloke"

"Did I ever tell you the one about Van Morrison and the Level Crossing?.."

"The Sound of Young Islington"

or

Unrepentant

or

Seminal

or

Sun-dappled

(Separate T-Shirts)

Apocrypha Now
The HORA
The HORA...

on the front,
'The Word' on the back.

or

Yout' of Islington (with apologies to Black Uhuru) on the front
'The Word' on the back.

In large letters U2, then in smaller letters 'should be reading The Word'

Word Reader - Awopbopaloobop.......err?

The Word - Seldom Scene but rarely Herd

written by pros
read by civilians

are revolting

"I prefer a b-side to the seaside"

Picture of sad faced, middle-aged man holding a 45 saying,
"I'm always scratching my seven inches" (for the 'adult' market)

"I complained bitterly about everything to do with the minutiae of stuff that many people never knew, or have forgotten, in the pages of the great Word magazine.....and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"

like:
John, Paul, George, Ringo
Kimberley, Cheryl, Nadine, Nicola, Sarah

David, Mark, Andrew, Kate, Seventies Mike

Wrongity Wrong!

or

My Night of Shame with Word Magazine

What word?

On the back

The WORD!

on one of those newfangled MP3 johnnies"

'My mum went to Valhalla and all she got me was this lousy t-shirt'

'I know it's not only rock n' roll, but I like it.'

..richer than your average pop star. (according to that other thread)

'For Those That Remember Record Shops'

'What's a record shop? - a creche for adults'

'Just don't get me started...'

'You could say I have catholic tastes in music'

From Zep to Hep

Big Star. Big Youth. Little Feat. Little Boots.

"Are you seriously suggesting...?"

"IMHO, IIRC..."

"A kind of cultural sat - nav"

THE WORD MASSIVE
(also available in S,M,L,XL,etc.)

THE SOUND OF OLD ISLINGTON

BILL RAWLS DOESN`T SCARE ME

BUNK & McNULTY SAY PLAY NICE

THE SCOURGE OF THE FPO

I don't think so"

EX-PATS GET IT TWO WEEKS LATER

Hoary Old Rock Anecdote before...

upholding the tradition of paying money for entertainment.

I'd buy it.

I've got blisters on me fingers!

Camel on the turntable, camel in the freezer.

'READ BY THE PROGNOSCENTI'
(for those of us in the Prognoscenti)

'ACTIVE / MASSIVE'

'THE OLD GIT MAG'
(obligatory RT reference)

'NO STAR RATINGS'
(I would wear this with pride)

I was very fond of Mark's editorial heading 'NEW ISSUE, WORLD SAVED'. And speaking of Mark, could we have an official 'fake' EGG FRIDAY tour shirt?

Finally, I also wondered if an imitation football shirt could celebrate the heroes of the Massive. The Word logo could go on the front where the sponsor's name usually sits. The name on the back could be any/all of the greats ('VALPARAISO', 'RETROPATH' etc - I'm not deliberately leaving anyone out - honest)...and the number would, of course, be a backwards '7'.

with a backwards 7 beneath it

I'd buy that.

I was once informed by an unreliable scource that the mighty Viz magazine sponsored some lower league fitba' teams shirt in the North East (Gateshead?), and the logo on the front was
"Viz.
Smoke tabs
Drink beer."
Marvelous if it's true.

Proger's thesaurus.

Actually I might send that one to Classic Rock..

nuff said

tells you what to spend the other £45.20 on each month.

.. for people who like Richard Thompson and The Wire.

has something to say.

Actually more than a few, and normally very interesting.

You can read it sitting on the blog

A Rock Mag
A Prog Mag
A Pop Mag
Not a Jazz Mag...

"Sense, incense and nonsense"

Stadler and Waldorf
Hull and Emu
Laurel and Hardy
Sooty and Sweep
Hepworth and Ellen

That'll be Mark Ellen

A long way on a Liddle

Grease Is...

might be good

Or

"In the beginning I misunderstood,
But now I've got it The Word is good"

*****
The Word

...and now it's back! Back!! BACK!!!

Wallet. Keys. Mobile. The Word.

or the holiday version:

Tickets. Money. Passport. The Word.

Ellen wheels, for what it's Hepworth.

UTTERLY
BASTARD
GRUMPY

in Caslon Antique, of course

The Word. (Trad. arr. Ellen / Hepworth)

The Word.

Music.

And everything else.

The Word
It would have to be a lot more shit for me to stop reading it.

Never Happened".

On the front:
I am only wearing a t-shirt.

On the back:
Please understand that I am not 'having a go' at self-mutilators or drug addicts.

Also available in Rock Star black
From Yoko to Bono
The ready reckoner of rock 'n' roll
Hand-picking highlights from the digital age
Old heads.New faces.Fresh perspectives
Carry On Podcasting
Putting the adult into entertainment
Sponsored by EMItex
Not available on 8 track cartridge
Snap, crackle and pop culture
We heart beardies
TMQ
A Porky Prime Cut
Foghat Rock
Salad for your brain
We're gonna need a bigger blog
Smash Hits with stubble

"The Word: A bunch of semi-witty people indulging in one-upmanship on subjects you couldn't comprehend"

... for entries (and the results), Fraser?

Cock

On the back

And Bull

Not strictly accurate, but it's a great phrase that deserves a renaissance.

The WORD,
A Magazine,
A Podcast,
A Way of Life.

Sniffin' Glucosamine.

We Salute You

The Word. Up.

watch the band and put that mobile away

sorry for the sweary Fraser but it had to be used

More than just a magazine.

Try Negging This!