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Style Rider: Dilly Dally's Shoe and Nail Games Are Strong

The Toronto rockers keep throat meds and comfortable shoes on-hand on tour.

Back in 2009, Toronto high schoolers Katie Monks and Liz Ball formed Dilly Dally. While the band has been making music for several years, they just released their debut Sore—an album that fuses depression with romance, noise punk and anger, producing a kind of melancholic beauty. Dilly Dally has been driven by friendship, anger, love and loss—something that Monks and Ball have put together alongside Jimmy Tonny and Benjamin Reinhartz in one beautiful mess of a first record.

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From pussy wallets (you’ll just need to see the photo below) to kicks on fleek, Katie and Liz know how to look fly on the road. Below, the ladies of Dilly Dally dished about what items help them feel fashionable and at home, on the road.

Pussy Wallet

Katie: So you can buy snacks & stuff at the convenient store, and then hit up some strip clubs after the show.

Nail Kit

Katie: So you can rip on guitar easier, it's good to keep your nails in check.

Liz: Manicure set for trimming nails, of the hand kind and feet kind. Necessary for shredding, fingering and having a sexy time in general.

Ear Plugs

Katie: For all band members except Katie, cause she is insane.

Liz: Earplugs with different levels of hearing protection available, on stage and off stage. Super fashionable after use, natural wax will build up giving your plugs their own unique waxy gloss to which lint and miscellaneous items can attach themselves to.

Throat Coat Tea

Katie: So you can scream and growl like a tiger forever. This stuff has bark in it. I dunno…somehow it helps.

Cold FX

Katie: Sleeping on floors and partying and stuff means you might get sick. Take this shit and you never will! It's got ginseng or whatever.

Globes

Katie: Ha-ha. You gotta stay on your shoe game. Nice and cozy <3< p="">