After mixing in a little country and pop in 2012, Spectra Place closed out the year with some rock and roll Sunday night.
Canadian bands Theory of a Deadman and Big Wreck, who are currently on a cross-country double headlining tour, made a stop in the Energy City and produced an entertaining two and a half show.
Big Wreck, who reformed in 2011 after disbanding almost a decade earlier, took the stage first and cranked out a strong show despite lead singer and guitarist Ian Thornley being under the weather.
The quartet opened with a handful of songs from their new album Albatross including the title track and Wolves, both of which cracked the Top 10 on the Canadian rock charts. From there it was a mix of hits from their first two albums and Thornley's solo act before closing out with their best known song The Oaf.
Although they are a band whose incredible musicianship likely has to be seen in a smaller club to be fully appreciated, Big Wreck proved to be a great counterpart to Theory of a Deadman, a band with a big sound that ideally suited to an arena.
Led by lead singer Tyler Connolly, Theory got the crowd jumping right from the catchy first riff of Gentleman and kept them up with So Happy, All or Nothing and the Bitch Came Back, one of the biggest hits from their most recent album, The Truth Is.
After the opening six songs Theory took it down a notch with a three song acoustic set that featured a cover of the Alice in Chains song Got Me Wrong.
Tearing into their hit Lowlife, Theory cranked it back up for the home stretch which featured Santa Monica, Hurricane and the closing number Bad Girlfriend.
A solid crowd of around 1,800 people made their way to Sunday's show. The next concert scheduled for Spectra Place is the April 1 production of RAIN.
