And so it began.
Dustin was born in Cape Town, South Africa and immigrated to 

Canada as a young child in 1981. Dustin started off writing short  stories in 

public school, his grandfather taught him the basics of  playing the 

acoustic guitar with just three chords. An A, a G and a C.  

From that moment on he was hooked. He started writing short 

stories in public school which progressed to poetry in early 

high  school. This progressed to writing music. He started playing 

guitar with  a high school friend in grade nine.

The Survivorz

Many  years later he reunited with that same friend and along with a 

few very  trusted close friends he formed a band called “The Survivorz”. 

Playing  lead guitar was the late Mike Palmer. Dustin wrote the songs but 

it was  the talent of the band that carried it forward. They were able to 

record  some great music that can be found online to this very day.

Decay and the Retribution
It’s very interesting that many of the people in Dustin’s life have been  there since he was a teenager or even longer. The band “Decay and the 

Retribution” remained together for about 8 years and performed a 

number  of shows in London and throughout South Western Ontario. 

After a couple  of years there was a change up in the group. This resulted 

in a few band  members leaving. The genre of music played by the 

band changed at that  time and they went from mainly a rock and 

folk rock band to a folk and  blues band with Dustin playing the folk 

section of the show followed by a  blues section in which he played the 

bass guitar. He was joined in the  band by his son Josh who played 

keyboards and once in a while his son  Brandon played on drums. 

The band remained together for about 8 years.

2021
2021 saw DustyMarcus release 3 singles and the album “A Long Time Ago”. 

 He is once again playing along side his son on keyboards. We would like 

to welcome Johnny Craig to the DustyMarcus crew! Johnny is an all 

amazing musician, his specialty is drums but he is an amazing guitar player 

and a certified producer. 2021 also saw him joining with Big Records in partnership with Sony/Orchard records. He has been  welcomed in to 

RiseUp TV and toured with RiseUp throughout Ontario in December 2021.

2022
2022 saw him touring the East coast of Canada along with RiseUp. 

It also  saw his first release with Big Records “Take it Down”. 

He continuesto  play gigs throughout Southwestern Ontario and he is getting back into  the studio getting ready for the next release!

2023 and beyond…
2023 is shaping up to be very exciting. DustyMarcus will be touring with 

RiseUp once again and heading to New Zealand, Alberta Canada, 

South Africa and the UK!! He has the pleasure of working with 

Garnet  Bruce (A longtime ago) and Tim Steinruck (The Mighty One). 

He has also  been working very closely with Jan Cooper from 

Cooper Studios. Jan has  worked with many of the industries top 

producers and writers including Loverboy, Whitesnake, Grammy award 

winning producer Bob Rock and many others. They are very excited to 

be working with so many extremely talented musicians and producers!!!