Customaries formed in the summer of 2014 when Chris Bell (guitar, lead vocal) asked his brother Mike (bass, backing vocal) and Nicholas Daleo (drums) if they'd like to rehearse some songs he'd been demoing at home. The trio connected instantly. Having already been friends and mutual fans within the Hamilton music scene for years, they have collectively shared the stage as band mates or bill mates (and sometimes both) as members of Chore, Hoosier Poet, Inflation Kills, Alive and Living, Jacome, Crux of Aux, and Don Vail.

Toui Manikhouth - Gtrs
Cody Morris - Drums
Dave Pettigrew - Bass
Andrew Rous - Gtrs
Andrew Shaw - Vocals

I write songs on my acoustic guitar and record them at home.

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The Dirty Nil play rock and roll. Loud, distorted, and out of control, they play like it’s a fever they’re trying to sweat out. Reveling in the din of distorted guitars, pounding drums, and desperately howled vocals, the Hamilton Ontario three-piece makes music for turntables and hi-fi’s - music for dive bars and house parties - for beer drinking and joint smoking - for road trips and barbecues - for fighting and yelling and shouting and singing and screaming and howling - for sweating and bleeding - trying and failing and trying again anyways. Gravel-in-your guts, spit-in-your-eye, staggering, bloodthirsty rock and roll. They’ve got a forthcoming 7” single - Fuckin’ Up Young - a snarling, jittery, ode to wayward youth. The Dirty Nil play rock and roll - cause they couldn’t do a damn thing else if they tried.

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