 Both Victoria natives, Ajay Bhattacharyya and Amy Kirkpatrick, aged 25 (in 2011), have been playing together since 2009.They first met at the Lucky Bar, home to a bustling and tight-knit community of musicians and fans, where Bhattacharyya filled in as a drummer for Kirkpatrick when she was touring her singer/songwriter act throughout coffee houses in Victoria.After both moving to Vancouver, Kirkpatrick worked as a lighting technician at many well-respected clubs in the city while Bhattacharyya studied sound design for film under Robert Grieve, with mentoring from Craig Berkey.