CAM AINSLIE

Drums/Percussion

Vancouver BC, April 12 1989. I slipped from my mothers womb, drenched in amniotic fluid, red hair glistening in the florescent light of Saint Paul's hospital. I spent my first three years in False Creek watching the dragon boaters and taking stroller rides around Granville Island.

Just before my fourth birthday my family decided to move to the Sunshine Coast, after searching for recreational property and falling in love with the place. We met our neighbours, the Campbell's, and Roddy was the first friend I made. Rod was starting piano lessons so I started piano lessons. Rod was a year older than me and had skipped a grade so when he took off to high school our friendship began to dissolve. I ended up going to a different high school and we lost contact all together.

I played piano for seven years, but was never really passionate about it. When I got to high school my taste in music dramatically changed from gangster rap to punk rock and I became obsessed with learning a standard punk beat on the drums. I got my first kit just before tenth grade and spent the whole weekend learning to play a straight 4/4 rock beat. A week after I played my punk beat for the first time, the pastor at our church invited me to be in the youth worship band. I was thrown into playing drums before I even really knew how. From there the guitar player and I started jamming and formed a post hardcore cover band. I think we were called, "The Alan Chan Experience."

My hardcore band shortly fizzled after I graduated so I floated around joining different projects on the Sunshine Coast. A couple friends convinced me to go to Australia for a few months at the beginning of 2008. I had a blast and when I returned from my travels, broke and confused about what my next move was going to be, Rod contacted me about starting a band with Olivia Kingsbury (DK's sister). We played a show or two that summer and it was then that I decided to actually get serious about playing. DK, Pat and Pozzy were simultaneously trying to get their band back on it's feet so they invited Rod and I over to Victoria for a weekend of jamming. I knew them from high school and really respected where they were going with their music. After that weekend Rod called me on my lunch break to inform me that we were moving to Victoria.

I've been in Victoria now for over three years and the band is still working towards our impossible dream. I know that there is no better fit for me than this group of guys and it's always exciting to see which direction the band will go next.

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