Carley’s Wreck and Ruin are a British blues duo with a dark edge. Primitive and raw, blending gritty blues with trashy roots, their influences range from 1930’s Delta Blues, through to the gospel fire of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the occult style of Black Sabbath, the theatrics of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, the witchy glamour of Stevie Nicks,  the spiritual side of Robert Plant, the Rock n Roll splendour of Wanda Jackson, the Mandolin of Bill Monroe and the guitars of Rockabilly and Punk all blended together with the constant echoes of old-timey Country and British Folk that creep in through the cracks into the speakers.

The music is the stripped-back, beat-up brainchild of Jo Carley (vocals, mandolin, washboard, percussion, keys) and Tim Carley (battered archtop guitar, rattlin' shoe, kick drum, distorted vintage amps, backing vocals). Raw, rhythmic, and possessed by something older than rock ’n’ roll itself.

Jo and Tim met through a shared obsession with live music and a lifelong love of the strange, folk horror and the occult. Destined (or maybe cursed) to spend eternity together, making their own unholy racket seemed the answer to the question nobody was asking.

Their journey has led them back in time to the gritty sounds of early blues, where they found the source that inspired some of their favourite music, and from that wellspring, Carley’s Wreck and Ruin was born.
Before Wreck and Ruin, Jo and Tim spent nearly a decade touring the UK and Europe with their band ‘Jo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls’, developing their own dark roots style and building a loyal underground following.