living in Auckland , New Zealand

...I live in Oxford. And Steve Earle is coming to play a short bus ride from my house in June.

I live in Lichfield,staffs and tom russell who is something of a hero of mine is playing in my town.Given that I have never seen a live act in Lichfield before I am pretty excited.

By the way saw Steve Earle play in January - he was very good - especially the new stuff with the turntables believe it or not.

Near Oxford, where I have also lived.

...dear old London in the shadow of the towering pile of suitcases outside T5

about halfway between Liverpool and Manchester.

About as non-rocknroll as you can get.

Gary Barlow used to live down the road.

Side by side with Southend-on-Sea.

Southend's Underground by Dean Chalkley

^^^^ a completely innaccurate depiction of Saf'ends yoof.

Near Sudbury in Suffolk.

Some items of local interest...

Simon Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who had his head chopped off in the Peasants' Revolt was from here.

The artist, Thomas Gainsborough is also a son of Sudbury. They won't let you forget that when you come here.

As far as I know, no musical acts started here, but folk fan Steve Harley and Jack Bruce both live in the local area.

Oxford and "down south" seem to be the most popular locations at present.

Living in the Detroit suburbs - English but have been over here for 10 years. Use Word to keep up with the UK music scene. Only buy the magazine when I am in the UK (4 times a year) - or when I very occasionally see it in US bookstores. Otherwise the Podcast and the Website keep me up to speed- does than make me a freeloader. Interesting can find Q and Uncut everywhere -but rarely find Word.

...is home. But today, I'm in Mexico City.

Have seen Word in Barnes and Noble in USA but you really should get a subscription. Its not really breaking the bank is it??

One thing that also puzzles me considering the high esteem in which I hold this publication - whenever you see adverts for new cd releases, any comments recommending the release are usually from Uncut or Mojo but never from Word.Dont your comments count for anything??

Sweden - and wonder why every month my copy of Word arrives a week late with a New Zealand postmark on it. Is it just me who gets this?

And I share the dilema with subscribing. I have the choice of either dropping about A$230, or spending about A$11.00 on a monthly issue that's about two months late (bulk surfacemail, I assume). And given my current tight financial position, I'm stuck with the vastly second rate option. Bugger.

And it's not like I have a wealthy auntie who'll come to the party either.

...along with pvincent and Steve Turner, neither of whom have I knowingly met. Maybe at Tom Russell, eh?

Cardiff.
Although I'm currently in an internet caff in St Davids.

I'm a Scot, living and working in Houston, Texas...coming up to 3 years over here.

I usually find the magazine in Barnes & Noble and Borders, but usually a few weeks after release.
Listen to the podcast while out running, distracts me from the pain.....until Mr Ellen starts laughing, which is a different type of pain!

Or is it Haringey? I've had it explained to me why there are two official spellings for the area, but have long since forgotten.

Here I am in Turriff, Scotland listening to live commentary of the Essex Senior Cup final on Essex Radio from Sarfend, (near Rayleigh, Leigh-on-sea and Canvey mentioned above) where the mighty Clarets of Chelmsford are losing 1-0 to Southend.

Local stars are few and far between (let's face it, with a population of 4,400 its not too surprising) but Sandi Thom does come from Macduff which is about 10 miles up the A947.

Still, if East Thurrock can hold on another 45 minutes without conceding a goal Chelmsford will be Ryman League Champions tonight.

I went to Rayleigh once, it was shut (it was 3 in the morning) and nearly got arrested for my troubles. Some soul boys were vandalisng the railway station on their way home from the Brush, the police arrive and immediately want to arrest the punks (all 2 of us)! I ain't going back, it's a mini fascist police state!

I live in Spain, in the central part, work in Mad Madrid and live in a small village in Toledo, ´bout 30 miles to the south. Word costs 10.60 Euros here, but ´tis a small price to pay etc..

I was born and lived in Colchester for the first 35 years of my life. 'Britain's Oldest Recorded Town', Roman past, Norman castle etc. etc. Famous sons and daughters include Steve Haley (he worked on the local newspaper); Blur (Albarn's dad taught at the local art college); Pete 'Nel' Nice of New Model Army; and Sade (my wife went to the same art college with her). Nowadays I live in Melton Mowbray (home of the esteeemed pork pie (though I hate 'em) and not much else; and work in Oakham, Rutland which is the smallest county in the country wih more millionaires per square mile than London (apparently). Oakham's claim to fame is its Victorin signal box which was used as the model for one of Hornby's train accessories.

we should meet for a pint...hell...maybe we already know each other!
The internet caff, by the way, is in an ice cream parlour called Bench or something!

Living in Maidenhead now having been exiled from Newcastle for 20 years. Lived in most parts of London over this time whilst sharing houses with other equally skint nomads. Limehouse and Tooting were where the most fun was had. Whilst in Limehouse, for a short while, the street we lived on became an unexpected enclave for(some of) the rich and famous. Chris Evans, Dr David Owen and er...Nigel Benn all used the same local Happy Shopper. Also lived the Lewisham Dream and the Beckenham bachenal.

Now residing undercover as the only Geordie in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

Unless of course you know different.

I too live in Madrid, in the area that roughly translates to "Foot wash".

A subscription makes life so much easier, and as I've changed addresses a fair few times in the last few years it goes to my parents home near Reading (Mortimer). Shortly after it arrives there, my small slice of UK culture magically lands at my desk in Spain.

Rockdelux is my Spanish music magazine of choice, they lead the way in bizzarre genre titles.

Tropicalismo for Maria de Madieros,
Maquinas y Juguetes (machines and toys) for Cabo San Roques's new album
and my favourite this month
Pop Anglófilo for Voxtrot

Well I'm in Singapore - been here 15yrs this month.

On the topic of subscriptions, I used to subscribe to Q, but found that a combination of the excessive cost of a "rest of the world" subscription and the common occurrence of lost postage / late receipt (and that was before T5), meant it wasn't worth it. We are lucky to have a reasonable HMV and they generally get within 2 weeks of publication in the UK... and its much cheaper than subscribing !!

What I would get the credit card out for is a downloadable pdf version - that would allow me to (a) get on time and (b) stop my wife nagging that the back issues are taking up too much space (I work for a major hard disk drive company so disk storage is not a problem.......)

Is where I'm currently living, I subscribe to word as it's cheaper, quicker and much more reliable than waiting for it to turn up in Magasin or the airport.

Of the deepest, darkest East Midlands, in the centre of known universe if you must really want to know.