Know any bands before they went big?

Family Force 5
Cobra Starship
Bring Me The Horizon
THE MIDNIGHT BEAST
The Futures
You Me At Six (I saw them in like '06-'07?)
The Maine
All Time Low
30 Seconds to Mars (Capricon anyone? )
The Millionaires
Panic At The Disco
My Chemical Romance

Also my dad had a mixtape that got me to sleep when I was a baby, it consisted of Green Day, The Prodigy and Foo Fighters.
I think that counts

ellis.:

30 Seconds to Mars (Capricon anyone? )

I went to a show of theirs a few months ago, and I heard a fan say that she "loved both of their albums. This Is War is good, but A Beautiful Lie is obviously the best!" And this guy agreed with her! I just looked at them like

It doesn't help though that their first album is probably my favourite of theirs. Long time love affair, right there

Paramore I saw in Tenessee a long time ago. And the Paper Tongues aren't big yet but they opened for Creed at the Nascar All Star race. This is one band that actually has good music with good lyrics about love not money alcohol drugs and sex like most of today's music. They will be the biggest band in 5 years.

You me at six (when they released "save it for the bedroom" as their first single back in 07)

stereo skyline (back in the summer of 08 when they had the old "heartbeat")

forever the sickest kids (in my opinion I feel like they aren't hanging with their fans like they used to in 08)

Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Alexisonfire, Lostprophets I guess? I'm not sure, time eludes me. I've been into all these for about 5 years. Uhhm. I knew Frank Turner from Million Dead... a lot of pople just know him from his solo stuff not his history. There's probably more.

Edit: Just found an ancient email chatting to a friend back in Spring 2004. We were talking about The Fake Sound Of Progress.

All time low
Cobra Starship
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Short Stack
The Spill Canvas
Parkway Drive
Paramore
Kisschasy

ellis.:

THE MIDNIGHT BEAST

^OMGYES.

The Veronicas (i knew them back in 04/05, with 4Ever. )
Futures
The Dreams (a danish band. )
All Time Low
Dune (another danish band)
Destine.

My Passion? If they count? They're not internationally famous or anything but they're starting to become big in Britain. I knew them while they still had a small fan base. Oh, how I missed those days. I was pretty much the only person that I knew who knew of them but I got my best friend into them when they were still quite unknown

Paramore. (Until the made a song for the Twilight movie than all the Twi-hard kiddies started liking them. D:)
& My Chemical Romance.

3OH!3 before everyone went crazy over don't trust me >.>
Blood on the Dance Floor,I'm pretty sure they came out in 2008,I was listenin to thme in january of 2009
The Script
La Roux,bulletproof is just being played too much now

Boys Like Girls
I rated them five stars when they were still a you tube sensation with 'the great escape'. Their first album was amazing! Second album not so hot:(

I've known about Family Force 5 ever since they were this tiny band that got mentioned in Youth Group newsletters. Always loved them.

I've been listening to La Roux since December of last year, and Bulletproof didn't get any radio time here in Alabama until about... two months ago, I think? Does that count?

I saw Twin Atlantic support Taking Back Sunday in 2009 and had no idea who they were. Now they're huge, as far as I know

Asking Alexandria, through MySpace. I was ecstatic when they announced their debut.

Paramore, All Time Low, Cobra Starship, 3OH!3, VersaEmerge, The Ready Set, Kerli, Metro Station, The Ting Tings, Forever The Sickest Kids, Stereo Skyline, probably more but I can't think of them.

avenged sevenfold
halestorm

many more...

The Bigger Lights. They're not big, but they're bigger now than they were before.

I've like paramore since I was like 9
The ready set
The maine
And I know some bands that will be famous

Breathe Carolina.
Kill Paradise.

Sadly I don't like them anymore :/

dru's long eyelashes:

The Bigger Lights. They're not big, but they're bigger now than they were before.

Ohmygod this. I remember when I was on MySpace, they added me, and I was obsessed with them. I still think they're pretty kickass.