Where next for music in 2009?

(The content of this post has been unashamedly stolen straight from The Mire.)

• Noone is ever going to shut up about Karlheinz Stockhausen, despite the fact that he died in 2008 and it won't be 2008 anymore. People are idiots.


• Herman Dune are GOING TO BE HUGE AT LAST:

• Finally, in the aftermath of the international recognition of South Ossetia and Tibet as free states, rare 1860s field recordings of creaking bridges will become available to the public for the first time, on a hotly-anticipated and expected-to-be-seminal 3" blue wood release on Constellation Records:

(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-yI6w3Eh0)

• Swedish 'scientists' will effectively prove that you can not only stick microphones anywhere and call it music, but that if you put it on the internet, people will try to download it
• And most importantly yada yada serious music journalism will reach heady new heights in terms of how many obtuse 'descriptive phrases' can be fitted into a paragraph with an overall net meaning of 'nothing' (I dare you to get through a paragraph of this)

And now to go into Central Croydon to play 'spot and punch Frankmusik' (buy here). The rules are astoundingly simple making it a game suitable for all the family.