How did Lions For Sheep get started playing together?

Almost all of us went to school together during junior high and we added one member, Matt, just after we finished high school. We really only started playing as a band in 2007 and we tried to get as many shows as we could. We did shows for our high school or have a gig set up in a church basement. We’ve even played some super grungy metal clubs even though we’re totally not a metal band.

Sounds like your living the glamorous life of a rock star. How would you describe the music you guys play?

We started out playing a lot of Ska music because Devan was the main songwriter, but as we started playing together more our sound has become more influenced by rock. We listen to a lot of Sam Roberts but also have some older influences like The Beatles, as cliché as that may be.

Many of the influences you list aren’t typically what you’d think a young band would listen to.

Yeah, We listen to a lot of older Canadian bands like The Guess Who and The Band. Constantine’s we also like a lot because we pull a lot of influenced from newer Canadian bands. Guys like Joel Plaskett and groups like Ladyhawk and Mohawk Lodge. We try to stay in that same sort of genre - Older rock with a newer Canadian rock sound.

Has Lions for Sheep gone on tour yet?

Yeah, we did a tour through Alberta and BC last year. We also did one a few summers ago that, really wasn’t so much a tour as much as an extended camping trip. We got to Red Deer and realized we didn’t have a show to do to. We worked out that we had spent more on beer than on gas. A successful trip none the less.

I like to think that it’s on trips like that where the Canadian Rock sound is developed.