Big Wreck

Big Wreck was a neo- progressive hard rock band in the late 1990s.

Lead vocalist Ian Thornley, guitarist Brian Doherty, bassist Dave Henning and drummer Forrest Williams, formed the band Big Wreck in 1996 in Boston, Massachusetts in their student days at the Berklee College of Music. After many minor appearances in Boston and Cambridge, the band signed to a major label and brought it to her 1997 debut album, In Loving Memory Of ... on the market. The single The Oaf placed in the top 10 in the U.S. charts and was a great success for the band. Other singles failed to match the success of The Oaf in the USA. In return, Big Wreck could show further achievements with the previously failed USA singles in Canada and ended up more Top 10 hits.

In October 2001, Big Wreck played in the Roy Thompson Hall with the Symphony Orchestra, the Uzume Taiko Ensemble Drummers and The Tragically Hip 's Paul Langlois and Robby Baker.

The second album of the band, The Pleasure and the Greed, which was released in 2001, was due to bad marketing in the U.S. and Canada hardly commercial attention. Just one year later, the band broke up.

Ian Thornley, for its part, Canadians returned to Toronto and founded the band Thornley. Guitarist Brian Doherty lives in Camlachie, a small community near Sarnia, Ontario, and has worked as a guitar teacher for children. Doherty is also a member of the indie band Death of 8 bassist Dave Henning and drummer Forrest Williams pursue any musical engagements more.

2010 saw the reunion of the band. With Albatross appeared in 2011, the first new single and album of the same name the following year.

Discography

Singles