Band Quote by Will Champion

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

— Vance Joy

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and…

— Sarah McLachlan

My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it…

— Steve Jones

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

— Anonymous

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it…

— James Iha

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

— Noel Redding

It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for…

— Alex Turner

It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for…

— Alex Turner

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

— Travis Barker

We were the best of friends. We monkeyed around recording sketches and jingles in George's bedroom. On November 5, 1979, I phoned George and…

— Andrew Ridgeley

The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.

— Lindsey Buckingham