Wellsville's Nick Anderson set to check Town Ballroom off WNY bucket list ahead of The Wrecks show

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Ever since leaving his hometown of Wellsville, N.Y. to pursue music with his band The Wrecks, Nick Anderson has been chasing his dreams and accomplishing things he previously never thought possible.
Though he threw himself into the madness of every Bills playoff game last season, including the bout in Kansas City against the Chiefs, there are still some highs to chase in Western New York for Anderson outside of sports fandom. The Wrecks will be playing Town Ballroom's main stage on October 27 in their debut performance at the venue, something Anderson hadn't even considered a reality until now.
"I saw some bands there in high school and I didn't think that that was even a possibility, I didn't know that we we were allowed to play Town Ballroom," he said. "I didn't know that our band would ever be doing that size, especially in Buffalo."
The show will mark the band's largest ever in the area and is a follow-up to their 2022 headline show at Rec Room, also previously playing Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls in 2017, where they opened for All Time Low.
Anderson said lots of family and old friends come out to his Western New York shows.
"It's a bit of a hometown show for me because I grew up an hour and 15, an hour and a half south of Buffalo," he said. "I'm right on the border of P.A., and so all of my friends and family tend to come, and it's a really great reunion. So I mean, selfishly, I'll have a great time having a lot of family there. But yeah, it's so fun."
He credited the weather for the energy at shows in Buffalo and cities across the midwest.
"It's the same reason why the Bills have crazy fans," he said. "Brings out the best in people. Or the worst. I don't know. But people are rowdy, so Buffalo is always great for us."
Anderson said his songwriting was borne from growing up in a small town and, at a young age, not feeling like he fit in, as his interests differed from many of those around him. Over the past eight years, Anderson's songwriting has spurred three EPs and two albums, with the band releasing their fourth EP, "INSIDE:," this past April.
Anderson said he spent over two and a half years writing toward the project, ultimately starting between 60 and 100 songs in total, releasing what he believed to be his best six on the EP -- six of which all dealt with alienation from the world and how unhealthy it can be.
"Those are the six that I knew how to finish," he said. "I was writing toward an album, but I was so overwhelmed and so I was just drowning in it, but I'm like, 'Hey, can I just do these? What if we just do this amount?' And it turned out that the six that my instincts said I could finish were all ones that kind of referenced a lot of self isolation, a lot of hiding away, and reflecting the fact that I was just spending every day and every night in my studio alone, working on the record instead of experiencing the world."
He said the plan is for the back half of the project to be titled "OUTSIDE:" and will reflect the fears and anxieties of getting outside and building community again.
"I mean it's kind of all over the place. We've always been all over the place and I know a lot of bands say, 'Oh, I don't know what genre we are,' but genuinely, there's a lot of harder stuff on the 'OUTSIDE:' record," he said. "And there's also the typical Wrecks coming of age 'end of the movie credits scene' type songs."
Anderson said he plans on the Buffalo show being rowdier than the typical Wrecks show, with friends and family in the audience.
"It's such a high-energy show that, like, even if you're there for the meme, you can't help but -- you're going to be jumping and getting pushed around, and in a fun way," he said. "And it's fun to see friends of friends come along, and they're not really sure what the vibe is going to be, and they just get caught up in the wave of energy that that comes through."
Tickets for The Wrecks' Oct. 27 show at Town Ballroom are available at this link.