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Geoff Rickly
Background information
Birth name	Geoff W. Rickly
Born	March 8, 1979 (age 28)
Origin	Dumont, New Jersey, United States
Genre(s)	Post-hardcore
Occupation(s)	Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Years active	1997–present
Label(s)	Eyeball Records, Island Records
Associated acts	Thursday

Geoff W. Rickly (born March 8, 1979) is the lead singer and lyricist of the Post-Hardcore band Thursday. He has also produced several hardcore and rock-related albums for other bands, notably My Chemical Romance's 2002 debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.

Geoff Rickly performed Autumn Leaves Revisited and This Side of Brightness live solo acoustic at the Eyeball Records holiday party in Hoboken in December 2006.

• Geoff wrote Streaks In The Sky on guitar and then taught his bandmates to play it for Thursday's 1999 album, Waiting.
• Prior to singing in Thursday, Rickly trained to be an English teacher.
• Prior to Thursday, he and Joe Darone were in a band called Useless.
• The Thursday song, I Am The Killer is about Geoff Rickly accidentally killing a man in self-defense.
• According to an interview, Geoff's favorite live show was hardcore/emocore band You and I's last show, which he held in his basement in 1999.
• He has a tattoo on his forearm which reads "Love is love", which is the refrain at the end of Thursday's A Hole in the World. The lyric came from a song written by hardcore band Frail. Rickly speaks of the lyrics purpose and meaning in Andy Greenwald's book "Nothing Feels Good."
• Rickly is working on a side project called United Nations with vocalist Daryl Palumbo of glassJAw and Head Automatica, Chree from The Number 12 Looks Like You, Cooper from Made Out of Babies, and Josh Mihlek, Thursday's guitar tech that looks like Rod Stewart.[1]
• Geoff interviewed his longtime musical hero Trent Reznor for Alternative Press magazine in 2004. [2]
• At the August 5, 2006 Warped Tour stop in Long Island, New York, lead singer Geoff Rickly swung his microphone into his nose. It caused him to bleed but he continued to play the set, saying "Whats rock 'n roll without a little blood?" http://www.longislandpress.com/view.php?file=10694" alt="..." title=""/> [3]
• Reported to have epilepsy by the All Music Guide.

In Thursday's album, War All The Time, Rickly writes largely about human suffering; the thematical focus is on the constant interpersonal conflicts humans go through on a daily basis (the "war all the time"), according to guitarist Steve Pedulla on the band's Question and Answer section of their website.

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