No one has mentioned me - I'm just about to sign a very big and exciting international licensing deal for She'll Be Right Records. this includes so far Trillion, Dark Tower, Duff and St. Lucy.

peace out.

I think the 'the' bands will fade. Disco will come back in and everybody will start really appreciating about those wonderful beegees and all those dance moves we all learnt to mock the disco era will finally be considered cool. *Sigh* It might happen.

Blink wil be a millionarie by the end of this year.

Nzmusic.com will reach 10000 members.

Ejector will be the next Zed. But still somehow keep being cool.

pacifier will quit. Because Overseas will think they are a cheesy datsuns

the datsuns will fade then boom again.

Operation rolling thunder will rock like they always do.

Fur patrol will move back to NZ.

Zed will throw in the towel and Rip It Up will have an article on NZ's big Bands breaking up.

Hekas album will rock.

Hiss explosion will tour and rock

Jakob will release another album and tour australia along with looma.

rawer will release 2 7 inches and are playing melbourne. after 20 nz dates.

Hdu will release their new album and they will return to the top of the kingdom.

weta will do a reunion show.

hopefully there will be alot more good electronica.

radio stations around the country will voluntarily increase their nz music airplay to over 25% on all stations.

love songs to midnight will come to a tragic end after a dejected punter brutally strangles the host.

as part of a new zealand music week there will be a retro music video weekend, including blam blam blam's Dr Who video.

I predict that all of the NZ bands coming to the states in the next few months will realize that the only thing in the entire US that can satisfy their need for intellectual enlightenment while on tour is a trip to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, and the only place they can see that is in Minneapolis. Then they'll all say to themselves, "Hey, since we're here, why don't we make velocity happy and play a kickass show at the Turf Club. I'm sure she'd bring all her friends. And maybe bake some cookies."

That's my prediction.

It sure is a pity they don't have many monkeys. Animals are interesting. I once read a great book on the sexual haibts of americans ala 1953 (commissioned by the US government i think), and it had a section on guinea pigs. I didn't read it, so don't ask me any questions.

cool website. thanks

NZ garage rock will lose its appeal as NME shifts away from it for some reason or other, thus resulting in people seeing NZ music as 'outmoded' across all genres, despite the fact that it is some of the most inventive music in the world. D'oh, another kick in the teeth.

After the terrible press this year, BDO can't stoop any lower.. maybe in 2003 it will have a shot at reinventing itself as a more alternative festival, as no big bands will have the balls to come.

Pacifier, Pacifier, Pacifier. I don't think Comfort Me, Run and My Mind's Sedate are enough tracks with which to satiate the apparent American metal-lust. Great band, don't get me wrong, but I don't think they'll crack the U.S.A this year short of releasing something special (like a Best Of? I know it's early days, but desperate times call for desperate measures!). Alternatively, they could give another market a shot - a decent push in the U.K could lead to them being hailed as a progression for the masses of Datsuns fans. If they are marketed as an kiwi-flavoured energetic live band, they may as well have a license to print money in England given the rollicking success of the Datsuns + D4.

Betchadupa... more likely to be an international commercial success? A lot of famous fans out there, 2003 could easily be their proper breakout year. They simply carry more weight and credibility than the NZ metal scene, and are more accessible. So I'd pick them over Blindspott/8 Foot Sativa to crack the international nut.

And a Weta reunion? I personally think they are one of the greatest bands NZ has ever seen, and ANYTHING would be better than the eerie silence following the release of Geographica. It's not like any of the band members GENUINELY have anything better to do... so think about it. Please, guys, for me?

2003.

betchadupa will be huge. they deserve to be.
more bands will flee to australia.
Degrees k will start their ascent of stardom.
A LOW HUM will be required reading all across nz, oz, europe and the us.

A war will break out between blink and Tiffany over the competing popularity of their 'zines. This will cause serious rifts between nzmusic forum-dwellers as they begin to take sides. Eventually, a rival website will emerge in Orc-land - realnzmusic.com, and the 'zine wars will continue in earnest, rampaging across the virtual landscape, spilling out into cafes and gig venues all over the country.

Alas, I see dark times ahead...

Let's not forget fur patrol, they will realse an absolute gem with another "break-up song" for release in spring/summer that will go gold

the US will go to war and Pacifer will suffer even more once the american press discovers what their name was.
more big name US celebrities will pop up on the Bible network and being born again will become the popular amongst movie stars.

Rustle Crowe will pick a fight with tom Larkin and lose, while other hollywood actors will look at crowe's nominations for Oscars and fightin' and there will be more brawlin' action.

apparently there was a scuffle between Moby and the crowe anyone know details?