My band formed on March 12th 2011, however I had been writing songs for a few months before then. So the second the band started, we ha original material to learn, within a month we had played our first gig consisting of 7 songs, 5 of which were originals. I write music in my spare time, record it myself then pitch it to my band, if the band like it, we'll write lryics to it and learn it. If they don't like it, I keep it for myself and just have it as another thing I have written