Platinum selling rockers bound for Key City

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Posted: November 25, 2016

Platinum selling rockers bound for Key City

Big Wreck, currently one of Canada’s hottest rock acts, announced their 2017 North American tour yesterday and Cranbrook is one of the first stops.

The platinum-selling band’s tour begins Jan. 25 in Nanaimo and arrives at Key City Theatre on January 31, along with special guests Ascot Royals.

To coincide with the tour announcement, Big Wreck also announced the release of ‘Grace Street’ – their fifth full length studio album (ole/Warner Music Canada/Rounder Records).

Their first collaboration with co-producer Garth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Grace Street is the epitome of sonic diversity, from the heavy grooving ‘One Good Piece of Me’ to the epic seven minute instrumental ‘Skybunk Marché,’ resulting in a trip that lead singer Ian Thornley feels no previous Big Wreck album has taken a listener on before.

“Musically, I’m still searching for the stuff that turns me on and takes me somewhere,” said Thornley. “You want to be brought to tears or have the hair on your neck stand up, and if the search for that takes you to new territory then so be it. You have to follow. It’s like chasing a high, and Garth feels that just as much as we do.”

Formed in the early ‘90s while all members were attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Big Wreck saw early success when their debut album, 1997’s ‘In Loving Memory Of…’, which garnered the band three Top 10 singles (‘The Oaf,’ ‘That Song,’ and ‘Blown Wide Open’), and a double Platinum certification. Disbanding shortly after the release of their sophomore record ‘The Pleasure and the Greed,’ Big Wreck reunited in 2012 after a decade long hiatus with the release of ‘Albatross,’ which debuted at No. 5 on the Top 200 SoundScan chart in Canada (their highest debut to date) and hit #25 on the US Billboard Heatseekers chart.

The title-track from ‘Albatross’ earned Big Wreck the status of being the first Canadian band to hit No. 1 on the Canadian Rock Radio chart in over a year, a position they went on to maintain for six weeks.

Albatross received a 2013 JUNO Award nomination for ‘Rock Album of the Year’ and earned the band another three Top 10 Canadian Rock Radio singles. Their 2014 follow-up ‘Ghosts’ debuted at No. 5 on the Canadian Albums Chart and No. 4 on the US Billboard Heatseekers chart and was Big Wreck’s second JUNO nominated album for Rock Album of the Year in 2015.