Ian Thornley of Big Wreck on the new album and 30 years in the music business
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Ian Thornley has been leading Big Wreck on and off (mostly on) for more than 30 years now. Founded in Boston
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Checking up on Big Wreck live in Ottawa
[Another concert report from Ross MacDonald and Karen Coughtrey. – AC] If you thought there was nothing fun to do in Ottawa this Friday night in February, since the Rideau
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Behold these photos taken at Big Wreck’s socially distant show in Ottawa
[Big Wreck has managed to play a couple of socially-distant gigs over the last couple of weeks. Ian Thornley and his crew were the first to play the newly-reopened El
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Here are pictures of last night’s reopening of the El Mocambo
After six years, $30 million, and a pandemic that threatened to derail everything, Toronto’s El Mocambo reopened with its first public gig (September 10). Here’s what it looked like. Upon
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 889: Ian Thornley, in his own words, part 2
The problem I have with so many interviews is that they’re conducted like interrogations. It’s as if the person conducting the interview has a list of question that he/she must
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Just before the pandemic hit, I was able to get Ian Thornely into a studio talk about his career from his days as a precocious keyboard player in a synth
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