The Almost

The Almost

The Almost is a band from Clearwater, Florida, most notable for being the side project of Underoath drummer/vocalist Aaron Gillespie.

Southern Weather

Their debut record, Southern Weather, was released on April 3, 2007, and was recorded in February and March 2006. The first single, "Say This Sooner", can be heard at The Almost's PureVolume and MySpace pages, along with "I Mostly Copy Other People" and the demo version of "Never Say I Told You So" (originally named "They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So in a Song But Here I Go"). Aaron recorded every instrument on the album, except for bass on a couple of tracks, with which Kenny Vasoli from The Starting Line helped. Aaron is the sole remaining original member in Underoath, in which he drums and sings.

The Almost released their first video for "Say This Sooner" on March 19, 2007. The video premiered on MTV2's UNLEASHED, which ran all day long on the hour. The video is also available on MTV2's website.

The Almost embarked on the "It's All Happening" tour from December 17 to January 20, 2006, joined by Jay Vilardi (guitar), Dusty Redmon (guitar), Alex Aponte (bass) and Kenny Bozich (drums). The tour showcased new songs from the upcoming recording of Southern Weather.

Since The Almost has formed, the band has reached over 11,000,000 plays on their MySpace music page and the band's song "Say This Sooner" has reached number one most played on all of PureVolume.

A video has been made for the second single Southern Weather. It can be seen on the band's Myspace.

History

There is no definitive date as to when Aaron Gillespie started The Almost. He made a music space for The Almost on October 1, 2005 before he had released any of the songs to the public.

On October 4, 2005 at 11:59 PM, he released two of his songs which were the demos for "I Mostly Like to Copy Other People" and "They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So in a Song But Here I Go".

Aaron worked with Kenny Vasoli to record a song called "Yule Be Sorry" for Happy Christmas Volume 4 on Tooth & Nail Records. It was in stores on October 25, 2005.

On November 7, 2006, The Almost released their first song from their debut album on the Tooth & Nail podcast. The song was called "Johnny Cash" but since then the song name has been switched to "Southern Weather", but now is called "Say This Sooner". The band also was a part of Warped Tour 2007.

AG wrote all of the songs himself while recording Define the Great Line with Underoath.

In 2007, the band embarked on Paramore's headlining tour, RIOT!, alongside The Starting Line and Set Your Goals (who played for the first half of the tour.)

In May 2008, Aaron announced that The Almost would be entering the studio this winter to record their follow-up album to Southern Weather. In addition, According to their Myspace, The Almost is Touring with Emery, Envy On The Coast, Army of Me for all of June and parts of July. In May they also released the b-side song 'Hold On', which was originally only available as a bonus track on iTunes.

Discography

Title	Release Date	Label
Southern Weather	April 3, 2007	Tooth & Nail Records / Virgin Records

Demos, Singles, & EP's

Title	Release Date	Label
The Almost Demos 2005	2005
Say This Sooner	2007	Tooth & Nail Records

Various Artists

Title	Release Date	Label
Happy Christmas volume 4	2006	Tooth and Nail Records

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions			Album
		US Hot 100	US Modern Rock	US Mainstream Rock
2007	"Say This Sooner"	111	7	35	Southern Weather
2007	"Southern Weather"	-	59	-	Southern Weather

Music videos

Year	Song	Album
2007	"Say This Sooner"	Southern Weather
2007	"Southern Weather"	Southern Weather

External links

• Official website
• The Almost on MySpace
• Say This Sooner (No One Will See Things the Way I Do) music video on MTV2
• The Almost interview on SaintRockNRoll.com