Photo by Bill Shouldis
Our writer Leah interviewed Thursday lead singer Geoff Rickly last year before the band’s show at the TLA in Philadelphia. Since that interview, there has been plenty of activity in the band’s camp. They announced a split EP with Japanese hardcore heroes Envy, due out this fall on Temporary Residence. The band played a triumphant show with Hot Water Music and Paint It Black at NYC’s Terminal 5 in July. Now, plans for a new full-length have taken form, with a tentative release date set for early 2009. I caught up with Geoff on the phone a few weeks ago to talk about all the band’s upcoming plans for the next few months.
One of my favorite moments involving Thursday was when you guys played Long Island during Warped Tour 2006. The infamous scene where you broke your nose after you swung the mic and hit yourself in the face. It was one of the most incredible performances I’d ever seen, especially at Warped Tour, because everything is so sterile and tame there and here you were gushing blood on everybody.
Geoff: It was a telling thing for me. Through the pain [and] the questions that went through my head, all these little things happened that day that made me wonder about how our little world works. One of them was half way through the next song. The security guards came to our tour manager and said, ‘you tell him not to jump down into the crowd because we don’t want any faggot blood on us. We don’t need to get AIDS working on this job.’ Which I thought was such an insane thing to say. The other was, we sold more than twice the amount of merch that day then we had the rest of the tour. We sold almost $20,000 in merch that day. Kids are drawn to that thing I guess. It was like, ‘blood will make kids buy t-shirts. No wonder goth bands do so well.’ You play the same set every day on Warped Tour. You have a half an hour, so you put the songs that are fire crackers back to back and that’s it. Some days, I will be on stage and I’ll lose myself in repetitive motion. It really had this startling effect. [It reminded] me that I’m actually alive on stage and these people actually care what I’m saying. It was one of the best shows.
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