By way of introduction...
 

Hi everyone. I came across this place while dipping my toes in the water at various music forums. The water feels quite warm here!

Music is very important to me and my preferred genre is 'indie rock'. Being of middle age, I have a great love of some older rock bands a la Zep (who I saw live in Manchester in the 1970's), Bowie and REM. I'm currently into bands such as The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy (RIP:( ), Death Cab For Cutie, The Arcade Fire, The Postal Service, Of Montreal, Wolf Parade etc. etc.. Incidentally, regardless of your preferred musical style, it's worth seeing a Lips concert just to witness Wayne Coyne's on-stage antics!!

Being open with you all, I hold the rôle of administrator on another music forum. My aim here is initially and principally to make new friends, discover new music and enjoy a new community, but with the consent of the site owner/ admin staff, I admit to seeking some cross pollination in the future.

That's it for now, I'm going off to roam your boards.

Cheers,

db. :)

Great to see another Mancunian join these boards.
Nice music taste mate.

Welcome to MusicBanter. :thumb:

Thanks for the great welcome! I suppose that someone's got to live there and we drew the short straws!! LOL

Where's the bar in this place? :laughing:

MURDER JUNKIE drank it dry...ages ago.
And I hope your username isn't due to some dubious canine activity of yours. ;)

Have fun. :)

hey there and welcome..
its good to have more alduts here.
*cough*clearly not saying I'm one of them.

Dogbreath...We meet again...Haha...Tis Tom from the Opium Shack! How you doing? Never knew you were a manc...Otherwise wouldnt have spoken to you...HA!

Hi guys. Thanks for the warm welcome!

I've got to say that the membership does appear to be on the young side...no offence meant.

I'm hoping that they're going to teach me all they know!! But hurry up, coz I go to bed at 11.00pm LOL

Finally someone not obsessed with metal or emo.

Hope you stick around this place has been sadly lacking of people into those bands lately.

shut up you just like that he's a The Flaming Lips fan hahaha...

I said bands plural :p:

Yours might only be a small post, but it took me five minutes to read it! I became mesmerised by the oscillation! How many Hz have you got your avatar set at! :laughing:

^ Definately a Manc. ;)

Oh I wouldn`t know , I just stole it & told Right-Track to upload it.

Only mods can upload moving icons

It's like a ******* metronome!

Shame it isn`t

My music classes would have been a lot more interesting

Welcome dogbreath1

enjoy your (hopefully long) stay at MusicBanter. You're correct about the median age here being about 16 or so (i would say average, but right-track and jr. throw it off!), but we for the most part are an open community and ready to discover more diverse music!

Urban -late 28ish
Right- Track - 35 ish
Jr. around 40ish i think
Yourself
and
Murder Junkie - 31 or somthing
Big3 - 23ish
are the oldest people here now I think..


i'm really unsure about people's ages here..

then there's like 3 or 4 girls here that are all the same age.. 19, or will be 19 in a month or so.

then after that there all 16 and under.. I think SEB is the youngest which is almost 13.. but I don't know for sure if there are younger.

^just so you know, I'm 17, almost 18 I guess, like two months away.


Anyway, wecome to the camp! Dont let anyone push you around. I like your music tastes as well. Death Cab for Cutie, yay! I was into Grandaddy for like a few days then I drifted away quickly. Some other band stole ALL my attention.

Have fun, stay active, dont be a fool wrap your tool, all that jazz.

well I just went by general ageas around here.. I would imagine there's not many your age here so I went with 16 and under mostly.. so.. I'm sure it wasn't that hard to see the point I was getting at..

Welcome dogbreath, great to have you onboard.

Enjoy!

Thanks for the big welcome guys. I'm sure I will stick around. The place is vibrant enough and you guys seem totally dedicated which is really cool.

Hey db, so you mention this place, along with right-track, and throught I'd venture across!!

Hey Em. Good to see ya over here!

Had to be done.....widening the circle!!

Circles are always good when widened...ernot. Nevermind.

WELCOME! Yes I'm the youngest...me and Blainka. Blainka's 12...I'm older than him :p: tutut! I just realised that. I shall be 13 on the 21st. Oh yay for me.

Anyway, I like your taste and you seem interesting, stick around!

If we're not interesting, can we not stick around anyway! :laughing:

Well she`s never said anything of note & she`s still here

I don't know about that man...*points to below quote*


Welcome dogbreath :)

Haha ahh the good old DAYYYSSS...

But yes, you can still stick around dog ;)

Hello and Welcome! :)

Hello. I am Harrison. I went searching for some new forums after my old ones collapsed under a wave of ignorant, carbon-copy newbs. I found this one and browsed around, content to find a variety of topics and genres being discussed.

Music is the most important thing in my life. My tastes run all across the board; one minute I could be listening to Suicide Silence, the next, Ulrich Schnauss. (see my Last.fm, although it's not entirely accurate due to my account also being active on my brother's PC. You can credit all the Fall of Troy and Dredg to him.)

Overall though, post-rock, post-metal, and shoegaze are my favorite genres. My single favorite band is Say Hi To Your Mom.

Welcome Harrison, have seen you about, good to have you on board mate:)

Thanks! :)

Hi, we already had an encounter about feminism? :p:

:laughing:

So we did. /e-hug

Aww aren't you a sweetie :beer: