No matter how big a band is today, they all started out playing unimpressive venues. Be that rocking out in front of just a handful of friends, or setting up in locations chosen out of necessity or novelty (such as the nu metal band that played a set in a Subway sandwich store), those early gigs in every band's career are all about hard graft, gaining confidence and pushing out your music wherever you can, to whoever you can.
Stadium-rocking punk trio Green Day, for example, were themselves at one point tiny fishes in a big pond, seeking out any opportunity that might offer them an audience.
