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Indigo Stafford

A look back at when Harry Styles and One Direction played Edinburgh's Picture 10 years ago today

Nostalgic pictures have emerged of one of the world's most famous boy bands playing at a local arthouse cinema (formerly HMV Picture House) in Edinburgh ten years ago today.

They say everyone has to start somewhere and ten years ago before the One Direction boys became so big that they only perform at sell out arenas, they were playing their first ever shows fresh off the X Factor.

On 28 December 2010, One Direction played a rather intimate performance at Cameo Picturehouse on Edinburgh's Home Street and according to Glasgow Live, it was just their second performance after the X Factor as they had played at the former Glasgow bar/venue Campus on Sauchiehall Street the night before.

We discovered some incredibly nostalgic throwback pictures of the gig thanks to Twitter fan page Louis Throwback @LT_throwback.

Before Zayn Malik was dating supermodels, Niall Horan was best friends with Lewis Capaldi, Harry Styles was a vogue icon, Liam Payne was parenting with Cheryl, and Louis Tomlinson was a judge on X Factor, the boys could be found belting out a cover of Rihanna's Only Girl (In The World).

We even found a throwback video which is actually quite hard to hear because girls are screaming from start to finish (nothing has changed there then.)

The boys posed for pictures and signed autographs with fans at what looks like an Edinburgh M&S, and the Blackberry phone in the picture and how normal and young the boys look is making us feel super nostalgic.

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