I'm not far from you and it's fine over this way, pretty diverse. The key thing for me was to get out and meet local musicians and build a network. Local Facebook groups actually help too. Then it was a case of "I fancy doing something like this" and often the response was, " I know so and so looking for the same thing, I'll put you in touch". There's lots of people around wanting to do different stuff, the tricky bit is getting them all together.
I tried the Internet ads and like you could only find rock and blues or teenagers interested in post screamo techno deathcore grunge.