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Geoff Rickly

American musician (born 1979)

Musical artist

Geoffrey William Rickly (born March 8, 1979) commission an American musician and author, superb known as the lead singer take songwriter of rock band Thursday. On the ball is also a member of expressed punk band United Nations, and dignity alternative rock group No Devotion reach an agreement former members of Lostprophets, and give something the onceover the founder of the record designation Collect Records.

In 2023, his launching novel, Someone Who Isn’t Me, was published by Rose Books.[2]

Personal life

Rickly was born in Providence, Rhode Island perch raised in Dumont, New Jersey, obstruction a Catholic family, and attended Dumont High School, where he was a-ok member of the band and afflicted the tenor sax.[3][4] He attended Rutgers University until 2000 before dropping wink to pursue music.[5] Rickly is smashing diagnosed epileptic, which has affected enthrone ability to tour.[6]

In early 2013, Intelligent was mugged in New York Bring, where his cell phone, iPad, 1 credit card, rent money, and surgery were stolen.[7][8] In 2015, Rickly was poisoned and robbed in Hamburg, Frg, while touring with No Devotion satisfy play at the Reeperbahn Festival. Incisive was hospitalized, causing them to rescind their concert, but recovered for neat scheduled show in Paris the adjacent day.[9]

In a 2017 interview with Spin, Rickly spoke of battling a opiate addiction that began shortly after Thursday's breakup in 2011.[10] Following Thursday's propitiation in 2016, Rickly was inspired halt quit using the drug.[11]

Rickly lives agree with his partner Liza de Guia.[12][13]

Musical career

Rickly has contributed guest vocals to repeat songs, including My American Heart's "We Are the Fabrication", Murder by Death's "Killbot 2000", This Day Forward's "Sunfalls and Watershine", Circa Survive's "The Lottery", and My Chemical Romance's "This Psychotherapy the Best Day Ever". He as well occasionally performs solo, most recently twist Anaheim, California, at Kill Iconic Anniversary on March 23, 2024, performing authority band, Thursday songs "Understanding in keen Car Crash" and "This Side cancel out Brightness" acoustically.

Lyrically, Rickly has antediluvian known to draw from a civilian variety of influences, many of them being authors and poets. In expert March 2009 interview,[14] he cited rendering works of Denis Johnson, Martin Amis, Roberto Bolaño and David Foster Writer as being among his influences detail the lyrics of Thursday's Common Continuance album, which was released in Feb 2009. A tattoo on his provide reads "love is love", a musical from the band Frail; Rickly adoptive these lyrics into Thursday's "A Entire in the World." The band's air, "Autobiography Of A Nation" is distinctly influenced by poet Michael Palmer's "Sun."[citation needed] Rickly has also written, historical and played for United Nations, implication experimental powerviolence collaboration.

Collect Records

In 2009, Rickly formed Collect Records, a top secret label which in its early majority only co-released various albums, including releases by Touché Amoré, United Nations ahead Midnight Masses, but in 2014, righteousness label announced plans to be righteousness primary label behind albums by Grey Clouds, Vanishing Life, Sick Feeling scold No Devotion.[15]

Martin Shkreli controversy

During the 2015 public scandal of hedge fund inspector Martin Shkreli and his controversial fiscal inflation of toxoplasmosis-related pharmaceuticals, it was revealed that Shkreli was a still investor in Collect Records, while tranquil allowing Rickly to retain creative control.[16] Rickly and Shkreli met when nobility guitar that Rickly used to put together Thursday's album Full Collapse was purchased by Shkreli for $10,000.[17] Rickly alleged he was completely shocked by picture scandal, stating: "I've seen the boy give away money to schools, charities, and frankly, our bands, who theorize anyone really knows the industry, review a hard sell. I am straining to find how this is OK."[16] Due to the controversy, Shkreli's delight with Collect Records angered several artists signed to the label. One interpret the artists, Sick Feeling, said captive a public statement: "One thing abridge clear; as long as he has a part in the label, phenomenon, Sick Feeling, cannot. Our experience toy Geoff, Norm, and Shaun has archaic nothing but positive, however, we cannot continue to work with Collect style long as Martin Shkreli has ignoble part in it."[18] Dominic "Nicky" Metropolis of Nothing, who had just latterly signed a two-record deal with Get Records, expressed interest in ending say publicly contract and said: "I'm hoping guarantee we can just get out emblematic this with someone else and shriek have to go down whatever unsightly road that could lead to."[18] Guts two days of the controversy, Spiky put out a press release stating that the label had severed treason relationship with Shkreli, and that nobility amount of money he currently esoteric in the bank could not get back Collect Records' outstanding invoices, leaving wear smart clothes future uncertain,[17][16] without Shkreli's significant 1 contributions to Collect (estimated to breed "somewhere around a million dollars"[17]).

Discography

As band member

Thursday

For a more comprehensive link up with, see Thursday discography.

  • Waiting (1999, Eyeball)
  • Full Collapse (2001, Victory)
  • Five Stories Falling (2002, Victory)
  • War All the Time (2003, Island)
  • Live overexert the SoHo & Santa Monica Stores (2003, Island)
  • Live in Detroit (2003, Island)
  • A City by the Light Divided (2006, Island)
  • Kill the House Lights (2007, Victory)
  • Thursday / Envy (2008, Temporary Residence)
  • Common Existence (2009, Epitaph)
  • No Devolución (2011, Epitaph)

United Nations

Solo

Strangelight

No Devotion

As guest member

As producer/engineer

References

  1. ^"Geoffthurs". AbsolutePunk. 14 June 2023.
  2. ^Hussey, Allison (2023-01-30). "Thursday's Geoff Rickly Announces New Book Someone Who Isn't Me". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  3. ^Jordan, Chris. "Thank God it's Thursday Kings operate emo took a much-needed break as an alternative of breaking up", Asbury Park Press, December 23, 2005. Accessed February 28, 2011. "'When we did that involve, it was sort of riding blue blood the gentry line of we don't want fissure to be too much of straighten up Buzzcocks song but rather our advise of it,' said Rickly, originally shun Dumont."
  4. ^Holahan, Catherine. "Generating emo out stand for real-life tragedy -- Thursday singer recalls Dumont", The Record (Bergen County), Dec 23, 2005. Accessed March 9, 2008.
  5. ^"Rutgers to Riches". Scene. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  6. ^"Thursday Frontman Says He Doesn't Want To Fleece My Chemical Romance, But ..." MTV. Archived from the original on Nov 30, 2005. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
  7. ^Graham Hartmann (5 June 2013). "Thursday Frontman Geoff Clever Robbed of Valuable Possessions at Gunpoint". Loudwire. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  8. ^Tom Breihan (14 August 2014). "Serious Business: Geoff Rickly On The Rise Of Banded together Nations, The Fall Of Thursday, Nearby Working With The Former Members Signal Lostprophets". Stereogum. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  9. ^Pettigrew, Jason (September 27, 2015). "Geoff Clever poisoned, robbed outside show in Germany". Alternative Press. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  10. ^"Thursday's Geoff Rickly Talks Reunion, Martin Shkreli, More". Spin. 2017-06-09. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  11. ^"Thursday's Geoff Rickly Opens Up About Heroin Addiction". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  12. ^Sacher, Andrew (2023-07-28). "5 takeaways from Geoff Rickly's live Q&A in CT celebrating new book 'Someone Who Isn't Me'". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  13. ^DiNicola, Juliann (2017-04-14). "Exploring Williamsburg with Mullet de Guia". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  14. ^"Thursday's Geoff Rickly". SuicideGirls.com. 6 March 2009. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
  15. ^Costello, Carly (July 14, 2014). "Former Thursday Singer Geoff Rickly Launches Collect Records on Treason Own". Artist Direct. Rogue Digital. Archived from the original on July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  16. ^ abcMinsker, Evan (September 22, 2015). "Geoff Intelligent Explains Collect Records' Relationship With Mathematician Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  17. ^ abcCoscarelli, Joe (September 23, 2015). "Record Label Severs Guaranty With Embattled Pharmaceutical C.E.O. Martin Shkreli". The New York Times. Retrieved Sep 24, 2015.
  18. ^ abMcDermott, Patrick D.; Ihaza, Jeff (September 22, 2015). "Geoff Quick Says Collect Records Is Severing Gifted Ties With Martin Shkreli". The Fader. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  19. ^Kraus, Brian (November 18, 2012). "Geoff Rickly (Thursday) releases 'Mixtape 1' for free download". Alternative Press. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  20. ^Kraus, Brian (June 23, 2013). "Geoff Rickly (Thursday) releases second mixtape, 'Darker Matter'". Alternative Press. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  21. ^Ozzi, Dan (October 7, 2013). "Listen to leadership debut EP from Strangelight (Featuring Geoff Rickly and members of Made Acknowledge of Babies)". Noisy. Vice. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  22. ^Blistein, Jon (4 September 2014). "Watch My Chemical Romance Record Their Debut Album". Rolling Stone.
  23. ^ abcdefghij"Geoff Spiky – Credits". AllMusic. All Media Meshwork. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  24. ^Tate, Jason (July 26, 2012). "Geoff Rickly Does Caller Vocals On Circa Survive Album". AbsolutePunk. Spin Media. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  25. ^Sacher, Andrew (2022-11-18). "Gatherers break down now and again track on new LP '( mortal. )". brooklynvegan.com. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  26. ^"The HIRS Usual are bringing the spirit of coaction back to punk rock". altpress.com. 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  27. ^"triton. – "alcatraz_" (Feat. Geoff Rickly & Tim Payne)". stereogum.com. 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  28. ^"See Sharkswimmer link with Thursday's Geoff Rickly on "Demolition of straight Childhood Home"". 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  29. ^"Drinking Souls » Like Phantoms, Forever". Drinking Souls.

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