Just after the WorldSpace Sessions 2007, WorldSpace's Bill Rock visited the legendary university of London Union, a music and entertainment venue where a legendary band from the United States took total command of the stage and crowd. The band is The Wrens. Bill actually called Ted Kelly from the ULU and let the sound of the Wrens playback through the cell while shouting "this is one of the bands for next year at Abbey Road!"Through year long conversations and logistics with Neil and Bernard of one of the U.K's premier new rock labels Lomax, the band that hails from Ted Kelly's home state made their way to Studio 2 for the 2008 WorldSpace Sessions @ Abbey Road.
Charles Bissell, Greg Whelan, Kevin Whelan, and Jerry MacDonald formed a band in the late 80sand released a seven inch under the name band name "Low." By the mid 90's , the band had morphed into The Wrens and released two albums, Silver (1994) and Secaucus (1996). Both arrived to critical acclaim and a strong following of fans. Ted Kelly described the band as the "Daniel Day-Lewis" of rock...the way Day-Lewis only makes on film every seven to ten years the Wrens deliver criticallay acclaimed work at roughly the same pace.
All of the band's members besides MacDonald lived in the same house, and they continued to write and record songs, while also keeping day jobs. Finally, in 2003, the band released its third full-length album, The Meadowlands. The new album was a resounding success for The Wrens, achieving huge critical success. The band also gained a new following after the album was released.
The band is also working hard on a follow-up to The Meadowlands and actually wrote and performed one of the songs that will appear on the upcoming album while Kevin was sitting at the "McCartney" concert grand Steinway in Studio 2. Check out The video to see the muse of Studio 2 and The Wrens at this year' WorldSpace Sessions@Abbey Road.