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In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
  North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
Geoff Rickly of the emo band Thursday bases two new songs on the '90s deaths of two teenagers.
Home, where downtown is just a few blocks long and the high school, where Rickly played his first gigs, is one of the biggest buildings in town.
Home is Dumont - the small town that still inspires Rickly's music, even though he is the frontman of major emo band Thursday and has seen the world through tour bus windows.
www.northjersey.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNzAmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY4NDMyNDEmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1   (524 words)

  
  Geoff Rickly - ImNotOkay.net
Geoff is probably the nicest human being I have ever met.
Tom and Steve battering away the melody on their guitars as Tim carries on with the bass and Tucker slams against the drums with all the energy he has.
Geoff sings as if it were his last day on Earth as he stumbles, jumps and dances on the stage almost like he is trying to awaken the dead (I know I'm weird but it's what I thought of).
www.imnotokay.net /member/profile/11113   (492 words)

  
 Geoff Rickly : How did I get so lucky? I'll be able to   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
stop bein dicks and let geoff and his guest be happy.
And I love Geoff to death and he knows it.
but that doesnt mean you need to make geoff feel uneased about it.
www.greatestjournal.com /users/geoff_on_thurs/6976.html   (358 words)

  
 MTV News | Thursday Frontman Says He Doesn't Want To Exploit My Chemical Romance, But ...
Geoff Rickly could stand to shed some girth because, to be honest, he's overweight.
Rickly had been toying with A City by the Light Divided for the album's title, an idea he's since abandoned given everything the band has gone through over the last eight months.
Likewise Rickly explained that much of the material Thursday have written over the past year — 16 tracks in all — will see some drastic changes before being put to tape.
www.mtv.com /news/articles/1510305/20050923/story.jhtml   (1073 words)

  
 Nine Inch Nails Articles Archive - Geoff Rickly interviews Trent Reznor
Rickly: As a lyricist, I've always been fascinated by the singularity of your narrative voice.
RICKLY: One of the most haunting moments in a Nine Inch Nails song is when you momentarily bring another person into your world, in the line "Annie, hold a little tighter..." [from "The Becoming"].
Rickly: I've seen you play live over 30 times and every time, I experience a mixture of awe and terror unlike any-thing I've experienced since.
www.theninhotline.net /archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=11   (1876 words)

  
 Geoff Rickly Falls Ill, Thursday Drops Off Taste Of Chaos - AbsolutePunk.net
Geoff Rickly of Thursday has fallen ill and the band has been forced to drop off their run on the Taste of Chaos tour.
We’ve passed along your nice letters and notes to Geoff, who no looky so good right now.
But we are going to hook him up to all kinds of machines and iv’s and get him healthy again.
www.absolutepunk.net /showthread.php?t=128736   (791 words)

  
 articles : Ragged Rock: From Emo to Screamo : Youth Specialties
Geoff Rickly, the lead vocalist of Thursday, covers similar ground in “A Hole in the World”: “There is no such thing as whole.
McCracken and Rickly aren’t incompetent vocalists who use screams to conceal any lack of talent.
And as Thursday’s Geoff Rickly put it in one published interview, he’s all for kids being idealistic, but it doesn’t make much difference why.
youthspecialties.com /articles/topics/culture/screamo.php   (1226 words)

  
 // ALTERNATIVE PRESS MAGAZINE \\
Thursday have been forced to drop off the remaining dates on this year's Taste Of Chaos tour due to frontman Geoff Rickly falling ill with some sort of stomach virus.
The band first attempted to perform without him on Monday in Minneapolis, having crowd members sing the songs, but with Rickly not recovering as fast as hoped, the band have had to cancel their TOC appearances.
There's no word on if Rickly's illness will affect their ongoing Shirts For A Cure Tour, slated to resume April 25 in Boston.
altpress.com /news/652.htm   (551 words)

  
 Prick Magazine - Thursday Feature
While Thursday has had the opportunity to tour with some of the biggest names in punk and alternative music, Rickly says there were many "milestones along the way" that helped the band achieve this success.
Rickly sports one small tattoo on his forcep that reads, "love is love," and honors a hardcore friend he lost.
Payne has a tattoo on each shoulder, but is looking to add to his collection in the near future.
www.prickmag.net /thursdayfeature.html   (817 words)

  
 Getting It All Out - Thursday Give a Lesson in Catharsis
Instead of a room full of industry people watching their cell phones, this was a packed house of true fans, hungry for new music from one the underground’s best ‘new’ bands, Thursday.
With guitarists Steve Pedulla and Tom Keeley creating dynamic, cascading melodies supported by the tight rhythms of bassist Tim Payne and drummer Tucker Rule, Rickly, whose voice often recalls The Cure’s Robert Smith, roams free with lyrics that question today’s standards and challenge the listener to rethink their motives.
Tom: I really don’t want to paraphrase Geoff on this, but I have talked to him about it, and what I get from it is that it’s mostly about gender identities and sexual identities, and how alienating they can be for some people.
www.voxonline.com /alternative/thursday   (2251 words)

  
 Thursday: War all the Time
Geoff Rickly, Tucker Rule, Tom Keeley, Time Payne, Steve Pedulla, Andrew Everding
Vocalist Geoff Rickly has Robert Smith’s ‘stuffed-nasal’ quality about him.
There’s a lot of angsty shouting going on, and a lot of the oh-so-popular polished distortion, well favoured by the big labels (these guys are on the island / def jam union), but unfortunately that’s about it.
knockout.metropolism.net /music/thursday_war.html   (364 words)

  
 HM Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Geoff Rickly: I guess I feel that a lot a bands, a few years ago, that started doing stuff like what we were doing, have made it more contrived and less sincere.
Geoff Rickly: “Signals over the Air” is the fourth track… the one that’s like… (begins singing the chorus) That one’s sort of in a different direction.
Geoff Rickly: Well it’s funny because I guess when we started the record, we were all going through some weird stuff and we talked about it.
www.hmmagazine.com /archives/000585.php   (875 words)

  
 Punk Updates: New and upcoming album releases
A chance meeting with Geoff Rickly, singer of Thursday and Tony award-winning producer, who offered to produce their album, lifted the sunken spirits of the band and opened the window of opportunity they needed to shout their rock and roll gospel to the world.
Adhering to their beliefs of ingenuity and loyalty, these initial friendships paved the way to the future allegiances that would be the glue to bind the stolid ideas and goals of the band and label, and thus create the record they envisioned.
Thanks to the tremendous help of Astromagnetics, Geoff Rickly, and their obliging (and often good-looking) friends, The Blackout Pact now has the means to both charm and char the minds and memories of whoever crosses their destructively unique path, by means of their exciting music and eclectic forms of licentiousness.
www.punkupdates.com /relinfo.php?relid=5177   (401 words)

  
 www.skratchmagazine.com - Thursday interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Rickly is very excited about the story of Thursday's past and where they are going.
GEOFF: The production on the new album is more along the lines of records that I listen to.
GEOFF: Long-term goals for me would be to have the life of a band like Sonic Youth, where we keep making records for a long time, and maybe people argue over which album is the classic one or not.
www.skratchmagazine.com /interviews/interviews.php?id=193   (1323 words)

  
 Geoff Rickly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geoff W. Rickly (born March 8, 1979) is the lead singer and lyricist of the Post-Hardcore band Thursday.
Rickly is working on a side project called United Nations with vocalist Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw and Head Automatica.
Geoff interviewed his longtime musical hero Trent Reznor for Alternative Press magazine in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoff_Rickly   (223 words)

  
 Soda Jerk Presents - Upcoming Event - Friday, June 17th 2005
So Geoff Rickly (singer of thursday) and Mike (singer of tbop!) and D. James Goodwin (engineer, murder by death) just finished mixing the new tbop record "Hello Sailor!" and in a few days were going to release a song or two for preview...
A chance meeting with Geoff Rickly, singer of Thursday and Tony award-winning producer, at a dumpy (yet beefy and delicious) hot dog dive was all it took to have their hopes granted.
Geoff, somewhat of an icon if not demigod for many music lovers, bestowed lavish praise upon the boys and offered to produce their album, which lifted the sunken spirits of the band and opened the window of opportunity they needed to shout their rock and roll gospel to the world.
www.sodajerkpresents.com /eventCloseUp.php?id=206   (1042 words)

  
 Mean Street
As singer Geoff Rickly put it, "The first record has nothing influencing you.
Rickly called the new album "...a record of questions, but not clear questions." That's a change from past work.
Something Geoff called, "a scary place to go." This coming from a man who, in the past, has addressed the rape of his first girlfriend, and stabbing someone in self-defense.
www.meanstreet.com /article.php?article_id=172&issue_id=44   (433 words)

  
 U-WIRE.com/CD REVIEW: 'City' makes for head-bopping fun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Along with keyboardist Andrew Everding, Geoff Rickly, lead singer of Thursday said the name was chosen because it is something that is so common and can be compared to former UK band The Smiths.
The plane was flying erratically as it descended and Rickly thought that this time in the air was going to be the last he was going to spend alive.
One of Rickly's personal problems that caused the hiatus for the band was his constant stomach sickness.
www.uwire.com /content/topae051606001.html   (912 words)

  
 Decapolis
The following interview was conducted with Geoff Rickly (lead singer-Thursday) on October 4th, 2002 by Andy Hewitt.
Andy was lucky enough to be able to get to sit down and chat with Geoff on subjects such as getting lost in Belgium, the concept for the “Cross Out the Eyes” video, and the bands recent success in the music industry.
Geoff Rickly –Thursday was just at the time, a lot of the bands around us had some flashy names and like long names, and we just wanted something simple and low key.
www.decapolis.com /cgi-bin/music/viewnews.cgi?newsid1044622248,58913,   (1549 words)

  
 MTV News | Thursday Are So Tight, They've Moved In Together
Yet for some reason, Geoff Rickly's been having trouble convincing the rest of the world that all's well in paradise, and he's done everything short of financing his own late-night infomercial.
To be fair, Rickly shoulders a lot of the blame for all the breakup talk: He told more than one publication he was "sure" Thursday were done following the band's stint on the Cure's summer tour.
Rickly confirmed that Palumbo's being treated in a London hospital and is expected to return to New York in the coming weeks to continue his recovery.
mtv.com /news/articles/1496528/20050202/thursday.jhtml?headlines=true   (479 words)

  
 'Screamo' band Thursday raising yell on billboard album charts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
That's what has happened with the emerging style known as "screamo," according to Geoff Rickly, leader of the band Thursday.
He says he and his friends used the name as a goof to describe bands like his, which play a louder version of what is known to music fans as "emo" (for emotional).
Rickly continues to write about outsiders, like murdered gay youth Matthew Shepard.
www.uticaod.com /archive/2003/11/09/lifestyles/19522.html   (319 words)

  
 Thursday's 'War' Rages On Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The band mixes metallic guitar lines and eccentric rhythms with the ear-piercing screams of Geoff Rickly, who approaches every poetic line as if it's the last one he'll ever shout.
Rickly compares the anti-radio single, with emergency-vehicle-like guitars and a call-and-response chorus, to the type of songs written by punk forebears the Clash.
Rickly says the label drama didn't affect the recording process for "War All the Time." "This was a stressful record to make, but not because of the label stuff," Rickly says.
www.billboardevents.com /bb/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1989124   (1053 words)

  
 Nine Inch Nails Articles Archive - Geoff Rickly interviews Trent Reznor
Rickly: As a lyricist, I've always been fascinated by the singularity of your narrative voice.
RICKLY: One of the most haunting moments in a Nine Inch Nails song is when you momentarily bring another person into your world, in the line "Annie, hold a little tighter..." [from "The Becoming"].
Rickly: I've seen you play live over 30 times and every time, I experience a mixture of awe and terror unlike any-thing I've experienced since.
theninhotline.net /archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=11   (1876 words)

  
 Thursday
These are snapshots that can never be taken again,” admits wiry frontman Geoff Rickly, whose slight build belies the full breadth of his passionate, intense delivery.
Brunswick, NJ-based band was born of a love for music and basement punk rock shows, the culmination of a pair of high school friends who met their future bandmates at shows.
Thursday’s music is push ‘n pull, tension and release, and sing-scream harmonies, with the songs functioning as modes of communication, where the band and its listeners exchange thoughts and feelings through the vibrations of the instruments and the lyrics.
www.thesyn.com /college/general5/thursday_tracks.asp   (1044 words)

  
 RED magazine
Directly prior to Thursday’s show, I saw Rickly and in the course of the ensuing informal conversation, understood what it was that draws these disenfranchised, underage fans to dark clubs on a Saturday night: accessibility.
Rickly’s voice had been troubling him for the past few shows, and when asked about it, Rickly opened up with the kind of aplomb that can only come from honesty.
Artists like Rickly explode on stage and on albums with the kind of outrage and despair born of a greater subcultural awareness.
www.red-mag.com /RED/oct30/emo.html   (1327 words)

  
 CMT.com : News : Thursday Frontman Says He Doesn't Want To Exploit My Chemical Romance, But ...
Still, Geoff Rickly says he wants Gerard Way to participate on new record.
Rickly can't wait to start working with Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Weezer), he said — and apparently, the feeling's mutual.
According to Rickly, Thursday have some radical ideas they're going to test out with their new record.
www.cmt.com /news/articles/1510427/09272005/thursday.jhtml   (1100 words)

  
 RED magazine
Rickly has also begun to spread his musical vision further than the confines of his band.
Convinced that the songs he had written were worthless and the was record futile, Rickly began to seriously doubt his lot in life.
Rickly still feels the album to be shaky, but he is warming up to it.
www.red-mag.com /RED/oct09/reviews.html   (643 words)

  
 FM 102/1 Independent. Alternative. Radio.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This New Brunswick, NJ-based band was born of a love for music and basement punk rock shows, the culmination of a pair of high school friends who met their future bandmates at shows.
Rickly continues, “The heart of what we do is loud, fast chaos, alongside pretty music with different ranges of feeling.
I wanted to be more visual, chaotic and noisy.” With this vision, Rickly’s artful lyrics take on more of a folk-writer/storyteller personality and he takes listeners on a vivid journey with him.
www.rock102one.com /bandbio.asp?ID=226   (1046 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Music / A shout-out to Thursday
But it's apt, as seen on Saturday night at Avalon, when Thursday, the band said to be spearheading the movement, wailed, shouted, and roared its way through a furious, dramatic set that had fans at the sold-out show responding with screams of their own.
Much of the crowd's rapt attention was focused on Geoff Rickly, the frontman of the five-piece New Jersey-based band and the source of the night's fervent confessions, who began the show in a theatrical pose with his back to the audience, the microphone held high above his head.
While Rickly flung himself about, bassist Tim Payne hopped up and down and guitarist Tom Keeley fitfully shook the notes from his guitar while roaring out harmonized backing shouts with guitarist Steve Pedulla.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2003/11/24/a_shout_out_to_thursday   (384 words)

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