Hello my name is Dan and I am a singer / songwriter / jack of all trades from Brighton. I wrote and demoed some songs and got some mates together to play live a couple of times. Have a look at this :

www.myspace.com/4or5magicians .

I'm after a drummer who is a) Really good, without feeling the need to show off, b) A bit mad, c) Able to learn and play stuff easily, d) Relatively young (18 - 23 or so), e) Available for rehearsal and gigs now and then.

And a female vocalist / keyboard player. If you could play guitar too this would be ace. Basically if you are Kathryn from The New Pornographers but from Brighton this would be great.

Here are my influences : Pavement, Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Slint, Trail Of Dead, Nirvana, The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Beck, REM, The Beatles, Weezer, The New Pornographers, Ben Lee ... loads more elements of loads more bands ...

We've got a nice little room share at a rehearsal studio with some cool local bands (projections, i'm being good, yuchi, blood red shoes, good morning captain, yelp of sords, ghost of a thousand, ack ack ack), readymade support slots with such bands and others, and gigs lined up in Brighton and London and probably elsewhere come the new year.

You don't have to join, we function ok as a 4-piece (with borrowed drummers) but if you think you fit the bill, please contact me, through the myspace page, or here ben_folds_fifty@hotmail.com .

Cheers!