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Name: Geoff Rickly
Age: March 8, 1979
Born in: Providence, RI
Favorite bands: Bad Brains, Joy Division, Drowning Man, Q And Not U, Fugazi, The Assistant, The Cure, Cursive, The Police, Deadguy, Off Minor, Shai Hulud and AFI
Favorite movies: City of Lost Children, Requiem for a Dream, Akira, American Beauty, Paris is Burning and Permanent Midnight
Hobbies: Hammers, Elbows, Stitches and Peanut Butter
Geoff’s Equipment:
Microphone - Shure Mic
Biography:
Geoff W. Rickly (born March 8, 1979) is most well-known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of Thursday, a American rock band from New Brunswick New Jersey, and signed to Victory Records. They have released four full-length albums. Rickly grew up in Dumont, NJ and attended Dumont High School. While there he was a member of the Dumont High School band and played the trombone.
Rickly co-owns Astro Magnetics, an imprint of Eyeball Records and has worked closely with bands such as The Blackout Pact. Rickly is also a producer for many hardcore and emo-styled bands, most notably producing My Chemical Romance’s 2002 debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.
Rickly has contributed guest vocals to many songs, including My American Heart’s “We Are The Fabrication” and This Day Forward’s “Sunfalls and Watershine”. Geoff also occasionally performs solo, most recently in Hoboken, NJ at the Eyeball Records holiday party, performing Autumn Leaves Revisited and This Side of Brightness acoustic.
Rickly originally attended college with intentions of becoming a teacher, but abandoned the idea when Thursday became his full passion. Before Thursday, however, he and Joe Darone were members of Useless. Thursday’s origins lie in the basement of Rickly’s parents’ New Brunswick home, where many other New Brunswick bands also played. Most notably, You And I’s final show was held there in 1999.
Lyrically, Rickly has been known to draw from a wide variety of influences. A tattoo on his forearm reads “love is love”, a lyric from Frail’s “Love”; Rickly adopted these lyrics into Thursday’s “A Hole In The World”. Thursday’s “Autobiography Of A Nation” is clearly influenced by poet Michael Palmer’s “Sun”.
Rickly is currently writing and recording with Glassjaw singer Daryl Palumbo for United Nations, a grindcore collaboration. Rickly insists that although seven songs have been recorded (as of March 30, 2007), his main effort will remain Thursday, and United Nations will only receive ideas not fit for Thursday. |
