The Almost is an American rock band from Clearwater, Florida, formed in 2005, and is most notable for being the side project of Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie. 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, 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. Gillespie 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.) n addition, according to their MySpace, The Almost went on tour 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. Shortly after the announcement of their new EP, drummer Kenny Bozich, quit the band. It was announced sometime in November via their MySpace. Dusty Redmon (the band's guitarist), made this statement in the AbsolutePunk.net forum: "Kenny quit. He's getting married and didn't want to tour at all. It happens..it's happened to me twice with beloved and dead poetic. It's a personal choice and we're cool with it. He was going to be playing drums on the next record, but made the choice to not be in a band at this point in his life. No big deal." The Almost will play at Soundwave 2010 with bands such as HIM, Whitechapel, A Day To Remember, Paramore and others.