The Wrecks INSIDE : OUTSIDE Tour

 

 

 

 

 

The Wrecks are nothing if not resourceful.

The group’s very origin story is a testament to a rare level of D.I.Y. craftiness that has quietly cemented
them as an independent phenomenon with an intensely faithful fan base, over a quarter-of-a-billion
streams, and successive sold-out headline tours.

Rewinding back to the beginning, the Los Angeles-based band— Nick Anderson [vocals, guitar,
keyboard, production], Nicholas “Schmizz” Schmidt [lead guitar], Aaron Kelley [bass], and
William “Billy” Nally [drums]—actually recorded their first batch of tunes under clandestine cover in a
“borrowed studio.”

Leaving a small town in New York, Nick had just moved to Los Angeles with a handful of songs. He
wound up teaching them to his new bandmates and recording them in the evening at a professional
studio in the backyard of a home where his friend was house-sitting.
Everything went according to plan until the last night…

“We worked from 5pm until 9am for three days,” he recalls. “On the final day, the girl called us and said,
‘You’ve got to get out of there. The owner is on the way’. We cleaned up, grabbed our gear, and left. As
we were pulling out, this woman pulled into the driveway. However, we forgot to dump our work onto
an external,” he laughs. “Our buddy snuck back in at 2am, stayed in the dark, and transferred the songs.
When he got home, he threw his fist in the air with the external! That really started our process of
learning how to be a band and producers.”