I am often asked how I got the nickname 'Nevil' and why I don't spell it with double 'L' and 'E' at the end. The reason for the spelling is simple, it's not my real name and nEvil is easily spelt to someone as 'Evil with an N'. But the more interesting part is why they call me Nevil in the first place...

We go back quite some time to when the First Fleet [convicts] came to Australia and settled. This is also the beginning of my ancestry in Australia. Mary Wade, a convict on the First Fleet is where my family tree begins. While serving her sentence she met and fell in love with an Aboriginal man to whom she had children, over the years the gene's were passed down the family tree until the day I was born.

A medical with a blood test would confirm that I carried a gene that only those with Aboriginal descendents have. After completing training to work as a driver/guide for Oz Experience [Backpacker Bus Hop on Hop off Tours] I was out drinking with some mates from the training, during that time I brought the story up of my ancestry, due to a lack of inspiration for a road name [nickname for tour drivers] the boys started calling me Nevil, I asked why and they explained that it was because I was part [1/16th] Aboriginal that they would name me after 'Nevil' a concrete Aboriginal statue in the TV series 'Kingswood Country'. and that is how I became Nevil.