I had the opportunity to see for the first time performing on stage a new band called ‘Thornley’. This band is composed of a front man, vocals and guitar, we know as Ian Thornley, we’ll call him ‘Thornicus’, formerly of Big Wreck. A bassist who’s quite off the wall and known as ‘The Worm’, formerly of The Watchmen (unconfirmed). A Guitarist known as ‘Travisin’ (I think that’s his name, he’s a new guy). And of course a drummer by the name of Shi… Shit. I forget. But that doesn’t matter right now. Well, it does, but it doesn’t. What matters is the fact that a band like this chose Brantford of all places to ‘test the waters’ per se. Naturally it’s pretty safe to test the waters in a small shit town with no respect for entertainment, but that’s another article. And I’m sure they had no idea of the wide spread grasp that the P.O.C. has on the world!

At first I wasnÂ’t sure what to expect other than a couple of new songs and a couple of Big Wreck songs. After all this was the first time these four members have performed on stage since coming together. And that in itself is cool.

As much as Ian wants us to acknowledge the fact that Big Wreck is no more, which sadly weÂ’ll have to live with, one thing is for sure. The songs we know and love will live on. And thankfully, this new band played them perfectly. Songs the audience knew, and the band knew this and played to it. The small imitate crowd of probably no more than 120 people rocked on. I was actually excited. Even the oaf with itÂ’s trademarked ridiculously long solo. This doesnÂ’t happen very often.

The new songs, the new songs were something different, but had so much of the same feeling youÂ’d expect to come from Ian Thornley. And well I canÂ’t really explain them to you; youÂ’ll hear them when they come to an mp3 download near you, or something of that extent. I can say that I personally felt right at home with everything they performed. IÂ’m not sure if people noticed me singing, but I was singing to songs IÂ’d never heard. Familiar, it seemed. Right at home it fit.

This new band is definitely nothing to shake your fist at in anger. Honestly, thereÂ’s no need to grieve the loss of Big Wreck. TheyÂ’re young, relatively speaking, and with that they have room to improve and grow on an incredibly talented and strong base. So, hopefully, we will see the awesome stuff they have now, and for ever more Thornley. TheyÂ’re not a big wreck.

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