While the band is based in Kitchener they got their start at Trent University, where three of the five-member band had classes together.
Matt Rappolt, drummer, and Matt Lamers, lead singer and acoustic guitar, began busking around Peterborough when they met.
They played at Peterborough favourites like The Spill, The Red Dog and The Garnet.
“We’re a little biased to Peterborough because it’s where we started, it feels like home,” said Lamers. “The Spill, we played there too many times, it was like a second home. Sometimes we were there three nights a week, occasionally we were just playing to the bartender.”
Rappolt and Lamers met Matt Morgan and recorded their first EP, before parting ways after University.
After many moves and working for a few years, the three got back together, along with Allison Dyjach and Rory McLachlin, to form ‘I, the Mountain’.