Four Quote by Luke Hemmings

I started gigging when I was around 13, my family helped me get small pub gigs and I have always loved performing since.

— Lola Young

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

— Jay DeMarcus

When I was, like, 17 or 18 and didn't really have anything I needed to buy, we would do these pub gigs for some…

— Lewis Capaldi

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take…

— Andy Partridge

I'd been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people's homes.

— Jade Bird

My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every…

— Leona Lewis

When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just…

— Sonny Sandoval

We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging…

— Bootsy Collins

I remember the days beginning at sixteen, seventeen years old in Girls Aloud. Nobody knew us, nobody cared. We'd do university shows and people…

— Nadine Coyle

Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four…

— Dennis Quaid

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to…

— Neil Innes

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

— Anonymous