Interview: Nick Thomas of The Spill Canvas on Overcoming Addiction and New Album ‘Conduit’
Nick Thomas and his bandmates in The Spill Canvas had built up an impressive global fanbase throughout the early aughts by blending vividly smart lyrics into the emerging neo-emo genre that took over the punk scene at the time. But over the past 10 years, while fans were clamoring for new music from the band, frontman and The Spill Canvas co-founder Thomas was struggling with his own demons. “I had to put the band on hold so I could direct my energy into getting clean off a heroin and opiate addiction,” he says. “Needless to say, it took some time to find my way to the surface. At one point during the hiatus, while in the throes of recovery, I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to play guitar again due to the loss of basic motor function in my hands. But as it slowly came back, so di...
