The Sweet Mack : Featured Artist

The inception of The Sweet Mack was not a rushed process. Bassist Mattie Leon began performing as a solo acoustic act at his high school in 2004. The same high school that guitar player Adam Montgomery attended. However, it was not until 2007 that the two got together and started writing music. The creativity together was immediate and they began rehearsing along with Mattie's older brother Mike on drums. They found their sound almost immediately fusing melodic influences from bands such as The Beatles, Sloan and Oasis but with a more aggressive attitude from bands such as The Who, The Raconteurs and early Kings of Leon. It was only a mere two weeks before their first performance together and on April 26th 2007 The Sweet Mack was born.

Now, due to the fact that Mattie attended Penn State University the band was limited to only playing in the summers of 2007 and 2008. Once Mattie moved back to their hometown of Brampton, Ontario in June of 2009. This marks the true beginning for the band as they were able to consistently play throughout the rest of the year having some great opportunities to open for some fantastic bands such as The Spill Canvas, Pilot Speed (formerly Pilate), Mistress Barbara, Sandman Viper Command and The Junction. In the winter of 2009 the band began recordings for their debut release "First Cut".  
 

After the initial recording sessions for their upcoming album it was apparent that performing it live with only three members was not going to be enough. So, in early 2010 Adam asked Burlington native Andrew Slomka; a friend of his from university, if he wanted to jam with the band. After the first jam the guys new Andrew was the perfect fit and in May of 2010 Andrew became the official 4th member of The Sweet Mack. Things continued to pick up for the band in 2010 as they finished their recordings, were hooked up with Adam Faux (of The Lost Dakotas and Pig Farm) to mix their record and Nick Blagona (who has engineered, produced and mastered for the likes of Deep Purple, Tom Jones, Alexisonfire and The Tea Party to name a few) to master their record. Now on the eve of their first release the band is very enthusiastic about their future as they continue to play more and more to growing crowds. The Sweet Mack look forward to coming to Cherry Cola's on Sunday June 5th for the With Her Film Fundraiser! Hope to see you all there!!