Connor McDonough Childhood Pict.

                      

Left : Connor , Right : Riley

Right: Connor , Middle : Riley , Left :Toby
Few Year ago

Now

Toby Mcdonough

Riley Mcdonough childhood pict.

Then

Now

Toby Mcdonought childhood PICT.

Then

Few year ago

NOWWWW

Before You Exit Pict.

WHO is BEFORE YOU EXIT ???

 Before You Exit , Make a Difference .That’s the band motto for none other than Before You Exit. The Orlando, Florida-based band began a few years ago with brothers Connor McDonough, 19, (Vocals/Guitar), Riley McDonough, 17, (Vocals), and Toby McDonough, 15, (Vocals/Synth/Guitar). The trio gigs live augmented by Thomas Silvers (Drums), Braiden Wood (Guitar), and Chris Ganoudis (Bass)TheOrlando, Florida-based band began a few years ago with brothers Connor McDonough, , (Vocals/Guitar), Riley McDonough, , (Vocals), and Toby McDonough, , (Vocals/Synth/Guitar). The trio gigs live augmented by Thomas Silvers (Drums), Braiden Wood (Guitar), and Chris Ganoudis (Bass).
These three young brothers are more than your typical boy band! From writing songs, playing instruments to producing their own music videos, these three young gentlemen are really creative and talented. When it comes to covering songs, they tend to deviate from the norm of just covering it like a karaoke version. They want to do something different by switching things up and adding their own style to it. Hence, the entire music video process would take about a week, starting with them sitting down and figuring and allocating vocal and instrument chords.

McDonough Brother

Connor McDonough ★

He's the older ƪ(˘⌣˘)┐

Blue ayes and blonde hair

Riley McDonough ☆

He's such cute boy 

(~‾ ▽‾)~ Awesome brown Eyes 

Toby McDonough ☀

He's my fav. one
Pretty brown eyes
The younger ~(‾▿‾~)

Few years ago

NOW 

The three brothers have crafted a soaring pop rock album of uplifting relationship songs that effortlessly blend sharp hooks with bright and buoyant rock. The album standout and first single, “I Like That” is a tune with tenderly romantic lyrics and big pop-rock beat. Ryan Daly and Anthony Improgo, along with Connor McDonough, produced the new album. “They really listened to what we wanted to do and let us try out our ideas, no matter how crazy,” Connor says laughing. “Because of that, we feel really connected to the way the recording turned out,” Riley adds.

Conjuring up the optimism in the band’s name—inspired by the sentiment “make a difference before you exit”— the band works daily to make their way to the top but they never fail to stop and appreciate what has got them thus far. “There’s no way we’d be anywhere without our incredible fans. They are behind us every step of the way and are a huge piece of this band,” states youngest brother Toby. In light of the many short lived and fly by night artists, this young, singer/songwriting, brother driven band, is one to be around for a while.

Before You Exit - Soldier

You got holes in your jeans

and few in your heart

You don’t know what it means to me, to watch you fall apart

Cause your broken and bruised, but I can hold you close.

I’ll take you in my arms tonight, just me and you.

Baby in a heart beat,

I’ll take you with me

I just wanna get to know you

You’re throwing me off beat

So I can’t breathe

I just wanna get to show you

If we’re falling apart

I will fight for your heart

I can be your shield

I will fight on the field

Baby when our life gets colder

I’ll be your soldier.

Na na na na na

I’ll be your soldier

Na na na na na

Just put up your arms, you’ll be alright.

Cause the world is like a battlefield, that I’ll be here to fight.

I see the scars and your wounds, I’ll try to heal them to.

I’ll take you in my arms tonight, just me and you.

Baby in a heart beat

I’ll take you with me

I just wanna get to know you

You’re throwing me off beat

So I can’t breathe,

I just wanna get to show you

If we’re falling apart

I will fight for your heart

I can be your shield

I will fight on the field

Baby when our life gets colder

I’ll be your soldier

Na na na na na

I’ll be your soldier

Na na na na na

When you’re feeling low, I can take you higher.

When the world is cold, I’ll be your fire.

I’ll be there, when you need a shoulder

We can win this war,

I will be your soldier.

Cause,

Baby in a heart beat

I’ll take you with me

I just wanna get to know you

You’re throwing me off beat

So I can’t breathe,

I just wanna get to show you

If we’re falling apart

I will fight for your heart

I can be your shield

I will fight on the field

Baby when our life gets colder

I’ll be your soldier

Na na na na na

I’ll be your soldier

Na na na na na

Interview: Before You Exit

The boys are literally just down the hallway from each other. When Connor casually mentioned about owning an apartment in Los Angeles with his group of friends, his friend chuckled “Are you kidding? You can never live apart from them!”


Connor then teased Toby…


Toby: I wouldn’t even be able to drive to their house if I had my own house ‘cos I am only 15!
Connor: You can take your scooter, sweetie.
*everybody chuckles*
Toby: Thanks, that’s nice of you.
Connor: Why not? It’ll be cool!


School alone is already not easy for most of us, imagine juggling between school and touring! Due to frequent touring, all of them are doing online school.


Toby: We can’t. My mum sits down with me, and makes me not able to skip school!
Toby: But sometimes we skip days and be like umm.. I’m sorry I can’t do it I -
Riley: I have to uhh.. there’s this TV show that I have to watch
Toby: It’s educational, Mum. The TV show is educational.
Connor: The aim goal is for us to all get college education. We always gotta have a backup plan.


They can’t do too many classes at a time or else it would be too overwhelming, so their mum helps to pick up the easy classes for them.


When asked are their thoughts on being compared to bands like One Direction and Jonas Brothers, they thought that it is really nice to be compared to somebody so popular and talented. “I don’t know if we’ll ever get to that level, but Maroon 5 will be a good band for us to get compared to” added Riley, to which his optimistic big brother replied “We’ll get to that level, we will. Gotta have confidence, bro!”


“It’s really cool to work with Alex Gaskarth”, when asked about writing Settle For Less with Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low. He showed them different sides of writing. “We have looked up to him through the years, and it’s really cool to see the way he might have worked on songs with his band and stuff, and pull it into our band.”


Connor’s first experience with music was when he was 3. He got a keyboard from his grandparents, and his first song he learnt was Mary Had A Little Lamb. Riley’s first experience with music was when Connor taught him Mary Had A Little Lamb. It was nothing fancy like Beethoven, “but I played it like Beethoven” said Riley. Toby’s first music experience, on the other hand, was the ever so popular Smoke On The Water guitar riff.


What do they do during their free time, you wonder? Big fans would know – Starbucks.


Connor: We go to movies a lot, we go on long-boarding rides, we go on walks, we go to Starbucks, er… we go to Starbucks, then we go to movies, we go to Starbucks sometimes, we go to Starbucks… then we go to Starbucks again.


I wonder how many Starbucks gift cards have they got from fans already!


Toby: They are huge movie critics. I’m like that movie is great, but they’re like “I mean, that shot in the 37 seconds of that movie is horrible, I hated it!” Riley edits our music videos, and he hates videos that are shaky.


I am sure some of you Exiters reading this know what is “fan-fiction”, and have probably read or even created one. “We have read some crazy ones, that’s for sure. It’s cool when people write stories about us, but when people read the stories and think it actually happened… it’s not cool. Which has actually happened before. It has all kinds of weird things… no, THAT is fan FICTION.”



Toby: I don’t even know what we’re talkingabout…Riley: It’s where they make fake stories about you, like they say Toby only has 3 fingersToby: *puts up 3 fingers* oh my God they’re right, it’s true!

With their cheeky and wacky selves, one can imagine how fun would it be and what mischief were they up to during tour! Toby shared with us, there was once when Connor was so happy that he got milk and cookies, telling everyone on the tour bus “I got my milk and cookies, I’m gonna go to my bunk and eat them”. Toby was playing football then. You could guess what happened next… He kicked the football down the hallway of the bus and it went right into Connor’s bunk and hit the milk right out of his hands. He came out of his bunk shocked and everybody was in tears laughing. Poor Connor!





Also, “the amount of times I’ve seen Riley fall off the stage is countless. I can see these images in my head” said Connor. They shared that Riley has actually fallen off a 10 feet stage, ouch! Ironically, Riley was making fun of Connor almost tripping, but instead, he himself fell off the stage.




This is the band’s second time in Asia. Not too long ago, back in May 2013, they went to Philippines to perform at Circuit Fest. So, how different is Asia from US back home? They expected it to be really different and they couldn’t wait to go back home to tell their friends about how different and cool was it, but surprisingly, they realised it is almost the same as US here! Everybody speaks English, which made it feel like home to them. “I am a little concern that when I get home, I might drive on the left side of the road”, Connor joked. “We’re super grateful we get to do this and travel around the world, meeting different people, see how they live and stuff. It’s really cool.”

Before You Exit - A Little More You Lyrics

I could use a little less rain on the weekends

(Oh woah oh)

I could use a little less drama from my friends

(Oh woah oh)

I could use a little less spam in my e-mail

(Oh woah oh)

And a little less talking, a little less detail

You make all that disappear

When I got you here

I need a little more, more

I could never get enough of you, you

No one else can love me like you do

I got almost everything, all I really need

Is a little more you

A little more you [x2]

A little more you [x2]

I could use a little less sunlight in the morning

(Oh woah oh)

And a little less noise when we're recording

(Oh woah oh)

Less is more when you're around

You don't let me down

I need a little more, more

I could never get enough of you, you

No one else can love me like you do

I got almost everything, all I really need

Is a little more you

A little more you [x2]

A little more you

If you were here to stay,

Twenty-four hours a day,

You'd still hear me say;

I need a little more, more

I could never get enough of you, you

No one else can love me like you do

I got almost everything, all I really need

Is a little more,

More, more

I could never get enough of you, you

No one else can love me like you do

I got almost everything, all I really need

Is a little more you

A little more you [x2]

A little more you [x2]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RILEY MCDONOUGH \(´▽`)/ \(´▽`)/ \(´▽`)/

Riley with family

Riley and Toby

Before You Exit

Thanks for growing up to be a handsome man ✿