The Wreckery

The Wreckery
OriginMelbourne, Australia
Genres
  • Rock
  • blues
Years active
  • 1985 (1985)–1989 (1989)
  • 2008
Labels
  • Rampant
  • Citadel

The Wreckery are an Australian punk blues group which formed in 1985 in Melbourne. The founding members were Hugo Race on vocals and guitar, Robin Casinader on drums, piano, Hammond organ, guitar and violin, Edward Clayton-Jones on guitar, organ and vocals, Tadeusz O'Biegly on bass guitar, and Charles Todd on saxophone and organ. Within a year, Nick Barker had replaced O'Biegly on bass guitar. The band issued two studio albums, Here at Pain's Insistence (August 1987) and Laying Down Law (1988), before disbanding in mid-1989. In 2008, they briefly reunited in support of a compilation album, Past Imperfect.