DiScussion: what do you hope will happen in 2009?

Is for Van Morrison to do his LA 'Astral Weeks' in full show in London (Or Liverpool if we're being extremely wishful).

Pulp to reunite.

I'm also interested to see what the Arctic Monkeys are going to come up with.
Oh, and for The Kooks to fall off the face of the earth.

muse are an awful band and, along with the Foo Fighters, epitomise everything that is wrong with modern rock.
the rest are good calls.
i'm hoping for a jawbreaker reunion, a second awesome Battles lp and some sort of supergroup popping up to melt peoples' faces.

for me is that Mastodon continue to release incredible albums, and that Trail of the Dead make an unlikely return to form.

Sufjan Stevens new album&tour

End of the road somehow better than last year, and i can go this time

Alex Turner forgets The Last Shadow Puppets and Arctic Monkeys new album is good, Emmy The Great's album is worth the wait, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tour and that I will have enough money to buy festival tickets. Also that Tom Clarke from The Enemy wakes up one day soon and can't talk anymore.

And I just want the next Thursday album to be as good as the Envy split. And Thursday to tour. Basically Thursday, all year.

ATP move one of the weekends back to Camber Sands
MBV release new album
Pavement reform

Two of them are already making music again.

I know this is the most unlikely thing in the world but just WHAT IF!!!???

the antipathy towards The Bedlam in Goliath. to me it's the record they always threatened to make, pure schizo tunes with none of the 'ethereal' twatting about. yeah, the drumming's a bit over the top but the songwriting's back to its best.

anyone?? no? just me?? fair enough.

having said this, they probably shouldn't bother making any more and an ATD-I reform would be sweeeet. and let's have Fugazi too while we're dreaming of the seemingly impossible. the 'Guy's Gone Grey' tour...?

Would be nice

the latter will happen. I'm not sure why. Perhaps because I can hear brief moments of Madonna in stuff from A Place to Bury Strangers, The Big Pink and the like

unless you are planning to clone Mr Albini.

Sod it, clone him twice, then you could have Shellac touring at the same time too.

Animal collective's new material but wish for eighties matchbox b line disaster to do another gig in London...just one would be nice. That could happen before 2009 really...i dont mind.

Tom Vek and this also, please.

fo' sho

Well it might happen. Might. Apparently the songs are there already.

Oh yeah and MBV hopefully will come back to Japan.

oh wait. DAMMIT!

The return of nu-metal.

- New Teenage Fanclub record thats better than the last one.
- Jesus & Mary Chain playing a show i can actually make it to!
- Kevin Ayers to play live.

Seriously.

I can understand folk not taking to Jesus Jones. Their loss, but it's horses or courses.

But The KLF are/were a cut above. The White Room is an astounding album.

a fully-realised Glassjaw album appear. I have my doubts that Daryl will ever realise how much GJ shits all over the 'side-projects' with which he is involved.

need a decent band in each genre to spark a revival? What is good in grunge these days?

reunion or final gig with all members, at the drive in reunion, aereogramme reform, new oceansize album thats heavy as fuck

Envy and Thursday to tour together and Circle Takes the Square to make an appearance at some point.

are still together! I think they played the Luminaire in Kilburn very recently.

1. Smashing Pumpkins get a grip and reform with Iha and D'arcy and make an album worthy of sitting along side Siamese Dream.
2.People stop making a big deal out of Glasvegas.
3. Stone Roses reform.............
4. I perfect teleportation so I can attend a friend's wedding and go to Glastonbury all at once....