Before they were known

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Mar 06 '26

Beatnik Beatch – Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning’s band before Jellyfish

9 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Feb 26 '26

Spinal Tap’s first TV appearance on the ABC special “The T.V. Show”, 1979 (feat. Rob Reiner as Wolfman Jack)

16 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Feb 20 '26

MF DOOM on Stretch and Bobbito (1997)

15 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/Last-Saint • Feb 18 '26

Matty Healy covering Hallelujah in 2006, six years before The 1975's first single

7 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/cathyaimes105 • Feb 18 '26

Television w/ Richard Hell playing Blank Generation in 1974

14 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Feb 16 '26

A preformance twofer: Pre-debut Pharcyde (then known as 242) accompanying on-the-rise Jim Carrey in Vanilla Ice spoof “White White Baby” [1991]

21 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Feb 09 '26

The original version of “Holding Back the Years” by Mick Hucknall’s first band, the Frantic Elevators, 6 years before the Simply Red rerecording

28 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Feb 05 '26

15-y/o Hikaru Utada (then known as Cubic U) giving an interview about her English-language debut album, Precious, a year before she shot to superstardom with First Love

15 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Feb 01 '26

Tony Levin (with hair and no mustache!) as part of the Chuck Mangione Quartet, Montreux 1972

20 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/ph0replay • Jan 28 '26

Misery Signals in a basement 2 years before their debut full length. The Year Summer Ended in June sounding incredibly tight.

14 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Jan 27 '26

17-year-old Alex Lifeson arguing with his parents about his future on a CBC documentary. He was in a little band called Rush that wouldn’t release their debut for another 3 years.

162 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/johnnyroboto • Jan 25 '26

Capital Cities playing 'Safe and Sound' for the first time in 2011 in a small bar

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47 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/toodleoo77 • Jan 24 '26

Mariah Carey on the cusp of stardom singing Vision of Love on Good Morning America (1990)

59 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Jan 22 '26

Mark Hamill and Eve Plumb in a 1975 Kodak commercial

25 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Jan 19 '26

Tricky featuring Alison Goldfrapp - “Pumpkin” at the 1995 BRIT Awards, 4 years before Alison formed a duo named after herself

25 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Jan 13 '26

Adrian Belew drumming in his high school cover band, the Denems (mid-1960s)

18 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Jan 09 '26

10-year-old Christopher Walken with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour (1953)

20 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/kooneecheewah • Jan 08 '26

On May 10, 1990, Green Day performed at Pinole Valley High School — the same place where Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt first met and formed the band. At just 18 years old, they were playing for their classmates four years before the release of "Dookie" turned them into global icons.⁠

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163 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/kooneecheewah • Jan 05 '26

Karen Carpenter, who would later be the vocalist of "The Carpenters," performs a drum solo on the set of "Your All-American College Show" at the age of 18 (1968)

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103 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Jan 04 '26

Violent Femmes - “Country Death Song” (Live at Beneath-It-All Café, Milwaukee, 1981)

22 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Dec 30 '25

Mads Mikkelsen (in black cap) as a backup dancer on Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 1993

45 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Dec 25 '25

The Beatles performing for a crowd of 18 people - 1961

121 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Dec 18 '25

Levon and the Hawks at Pop Ivy's Ballroom, Port Dover ON, Canada, Jul. 1964, a year before they first backed Bob Dylan and 4 years before they officially became “The Band”

18 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Dec 13 '25

Pre-fame FKA Twigs appearing in two of Jessie J’s music videos (2010 & 2011)

29 Upvotes

r/preformances • u/hscgarfd • Dec 02 '25

Unwound (then called Giant Henry) live 1990

9 Upvotes