BRAND NEW ALBUM GRACE STREET SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 3rd RELEASE
Lead Single “One Good Piece Of Me” Is #1 Most Added Track At Rock Radio & Top Downloaded Song For The Week Ending 11/11
Halifax, NS) – Platinum-selling rock giants Big Wreck return to the east coast with special guest Ascot Royals for performances at the Molson Canadian Centre at Casino New Brunswick in Moncton on Friday, March 10 and the Marquee Ballroom in Halifax on Saturday, March 11.
To coincide with the tour announcement, Big Wreck are also pleased to announce the release of Grace Street – their fifth full length studio album available everywhere Feb. 3 via ole/Warner Music Canada/Rounder Records. Grace Street is available for pre-order today and features “Skybunk Marché” and the #1 added single at Rock Radio this week, “One Good Piece of Me”.
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,” says 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…, 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 #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 #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 Ghost debuted at #5 on the Canadian Albums Chart and #4 on the US Billboard Heatseekers chart and was Big Wreck’s second JUNO nominated album for Rock Album of the Year in 2015.
Big Wreck is Ian Thornley (Vocals, Guitar), Chuck Keeping (Drums), Dave McMillan (Bass), Paulo Neta (Guitar), and Brian Doherty (Guitar).
Pre-order bundles that include physical CD’s and vinyl are available to purchase from the Big Wreck webstore here.
GRACE STREET Track Listing:
1. It Comes As No Surprise
2. One Good Piece Of Me
3. Tomorrow Down
4. You Don’t Even Know
5. Useless
6. A Speedy Recovery
7. Motionless
8. Digging In
9. The Receiving End
10. Floodgates
11. The Arborist
12. Skybunk Marché
13. All My Fears On You
A limited number of VIP ticket packages are available now for Canadian dates at www.bigwreckmusic.com/vip and include exclusive merchandise and a meet and greet with the band.
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, NOV. 25 AT 11 A.M.
Moncton tickets are $39.90 for floor tickets and $49.90 for bleacher seats (including tax and service fee) and will be available at the Casino Gift Shop, by phone 1-866-943-8849 and online at www.sonicconcerts.com. Additional fees may apply. Doors open at 7 p.m..
Halifax tickets are $39.99 in advance and $44.99 day of show (including tax and service fee) and will be available at the etixnow kiosks at the Halifax Forum (2901 Windsor St) and Music Nova Scotia (2169 Gottingen St) and online at www.sonicconcerts.com. Additional fees may apply. Doors open at 8 p.m.
