Oh and will Noizy be in charge of organising the Xmas party?

As retired chief propper (?) and President of Joe Programmer Fan Club, I suspect in future Noizy will be well propped.

Has Flipper become a Bus Driver?
theres rumors, and frankly, Im worried sick.

//// I believe we felt Xmas parties now belong in April didn't we?

Excellent. I've taken the liberty of preparing a handy chart to demonstrate what works well at an 'industry' Xmas party:

[ external link ]

We, as in the guy that didn't get it organised pre-Xmas

cheers mate! but plans both sites are afoot. stay tuned...

Noizymusic, NZland?

It's as if 2006 is a year for change, or something.

// I hope Noizyland keeps going

cheers! and yeah, it will, in one form or another. There is, as you say, a lot of archival stuff that people seem to find useful, so I'll make sure that info stays accessible either there or here. The homepage has essentially morphed into its own self-updating news/blog/podcast page driven by other site's XML feeds, so that'll probably remain as a way for people to get a quick overview on what's new around the nz music web. Might even expand and break out that bit of it actually - there's more and more interesting feeds popping up all over the place every month.

As far as band info goes, I'll probably pull off bio info soon, but leave discography/reviews/interviews info there, and push people thru to nzm for 'more info' (where available).

The problem with adding Bands/Artists is, much like nzmusic, I've got a list of bands wanting to get onto the site that's a mile long. I was in the process of creating a wiki-like system for noizyland that would allow bands (and anyone, in fact) add and edit info about bands, instead of me having to do all the admin work up front. When the nzmusic job appeared on the horizon, I kinda let that development slip by the by, but, again, it might get resurrected in one way or another for the new build of nzmusic that's on the go.

// I sent you a copy of our album recently and it
// wouuld've been nice to be added to the list of artists there.

aha! well, maybe one band entry for old times sake.

I'm sure we can work something out.