Full Album show of July 13, 2023
With the Album: Stand and Fight


Artist's Biography

Burnt Out Wreck, fronted by and featuring Gary Moat, are as musically unpretentious and outstanding a band as they are an old-school, classic guitar-rock outfit.

Front man and songwriter Gary Moat, now more than three decades removed from the original Heavy Pettin, is still proving Rock Ain’t Dead, but on very much his own terms – uncompromising riff- led rock that takes the essence of AC/DC and adds sonic swagger and raucous roll in equal measure.

That Burnt Out Wreck sound was heard to fine effect on debut album Swallow and sophomore release This is Hell, a slightly darker affair that carried both lyrical wit and weighty, guitar-led grit.

Those albums and the band’s first five years led to well-received festival appearances (including a WinterStorm set that elicited an audience response of “one more song!” at set’s end), supporting the likes of Anvil, a clutch of headline shows and a return invite to BonFest, all of which have started to pay dividends for Gary Moat, Alex Carmichael (bass), Paul Gray (drums) and new guitarist Richard Upson (guitarist Andy McLaughlin is also part of the band for live work).

In 2022 Burnt Out Wreck released their big, bold and lyrically defiant third album Stand And Fight, which Gary Moat noted contained “eleven of the best songs I’ve written.” He’s not wrong, with brooding, thick-riffed opener 'Big Up Yourself' acting as a musical portent for what follows – an album that musically bites as much as it lyrically stands, and fights, its hard rock ground.

Full Album show of July 27, 2020
Album: This Is Hell

Artist's Biography: Gary created BURNT OUT WRECK in the summer of 2016. After penning songs for the debut album, he ventured into the studio under the watchful eye of Steve Rispin (Asia), and with Gary’s determination to create good time classic rock, the album ‘SWALLOW’ took shape and was released early 2017. After plenty of promotion and hard work touring the UK, the band returned to the studio to record the follow up, 'This Is Hell', a fierce, hard rocking album with a heavy punch and one that sees the band take a big leap forward.
Gary has a colourful history as the drummer and main songwriter for Heavy Pettin’, but for BURNT OUT WRECK he has traded the drum stool for the microphone and has a hugely talented band playing alongside him. Gary's vocal style developed in Mother’s Ruin, the band that rose from the ashes of Heavy Pettin’ in 1991 but in 2014, he shut the that band down in favour of song writing. BURNT OUT WRECK’S inception was unexpected but welcome! ROCK AINT DEAD....

Burnt Out Wreck are: Gary Moat - Lead Vocals, Alex Carmichael - Bass, Paul Gray - Drums, Miles Goodman - Rhythm Guitar, backing vocals