I get talking to new people quite often, usually its when I'm in a pub, either by the shirt I'm wearing or what I put on the jukebox I get talking to people about bands, songs, albums, ales, gigs. Its brilliant.
Things like that and people like that are all over the region, its literally how the music scene here has began taking form into something that's not mostly comprised of edgy 14 year olds playing screamo and breakdown-laden stuff.