THE WRECKERY are a Melbourne based formed by Hugo Race and Ed Clayton-Jones on their return home from tenure with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds in Europe and the U.S.A. Robin Casinader joined on drums having played with Hugo and Ed in the art punk outfit Plays with Marionettes. Nick Barker and Charles Todd finished the line up on bass and sax respectively.THE WRECKERY were a big hit on the live circuit and had a large and loyal following. They were infamous at a time when heroin chic was de rigeur and Burroughs and Bukowski topped our reading lists. THE WRECKERY became the poster boys for the dark side, tapping the seam of the old delta blues and the Flannery O'Connoresque imagery of a toxic, dilapidated world.They lived it for better and ultimately for worse.
THE WRECKERY played their last show at Melbourne University 20 years ago. Having just completed what would be their last and best album " Laying Down Law" the wheels fell off and the band split ending 4 years of staggering wild live shows and amazing songwriting.On the 1st of AUGUST 2008 THE WRECKERY will release a new double-CD on Memorandum Recordings, " Past Imperfect", a comprehensive collection of songs spanning the whole career of the band. AUGUST 08 will see the band return to the stage for a tour of the east coast of Australia...Dates to be announced and posted....original line up....
Ed Clayton-Jones 2008
