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Did you find your bandmates through boards

  • 22-05-2011 8:26pm
    #1
    niall1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭


    Just thought I'd start a thread to talk about success stories in finding bandmates or starting bands through boards.

    Keep it good willed. We've all had a few bumps in the road but it'd be great to share the success stories with new Boardies

    I'm in a band called Breaking Light. Started looking for a guitarist last April and after a few false starts met up with a guy who has the same taste in music and we just clicked musically.

    We then recruited a drummer in June and a Bass Player in Feb this year.

    So the entire band has come together through boards. We released our debut album 2 weeks agp and have gotten decent AirPlay and press coverage.

    A long way to go but even if it ended here, we've had a blast so far.


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Interjecting and deleting a few posts. Let's try and keep this on topic lads


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I found not one, but two bands through this site (before I was mod I hasten to add)

    Burma Shade was the first. Full new band formed. Raindog.promo was the guitarist, and I could be wrong but I think it was one of his first posts.

    After that didn't work out, as these things often don't :D

    I found spiceylauren looking for a bassist. I was already a fan, so it was easy enough.

    But there is success stories through here.

    If anyone has a magic way of attracting drummers to the site I'd be well interested to here about that!


  • #4
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    Papa Smut wrote: »
    If anyone has a magic way of attracting drummers to the site I'd be well interested to here about that!

    Snack boxes...

    (It's the drumsticks).


    And back on topic, I haven't found anyone through this forum directly, but I have through Boards PMs...


  • #5
    Seany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭Seany


    Have found boards.ie reasonably good for recruiting members in the past.

    In recent times for a side project, not so much but previously 2 of 4 chapman society were found here.


  • #6
    dhmusic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭dhmusic


    With boards, you just have to be willing to go through a lot of spoofers/timewasters/weirdos and for every 20 of them there is 1 decent person who may or may not be suited to your band.

    I've had a bit more success (people actually following up their "interest") in the past with gumtree. But in the 5 years or so I've used this site I've only found a drummer and a singer who did exactly what they said on the tin. The majority of people oversell themselves.


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