Geoffrey William Rickly (pronounced Jeffrey) (born March 8, 1979 is the lead singer and songwriter of Thursday, an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. They have released five studio albums. Rickly grew up in Dumont, New Jersey and attended Dumont High School, where he was a member of the band and played the tenor sax.
Rickly has contributed guest vocals to many songs, including My American Heart's "We Are The Fabrication", (based o...
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Geoffrey William Rickly (pronounced Jeffrey) (born March 8, 1979 is the lead singer and songwriter of Thursday, an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. They have released five studio albums. Rickly grew up in Dumont, New Jersey and attended Dumont High School, where he was a member of the band and played the tenor sax.
Rickly has contributed guest vocals to many songs, including My American Heart's "We Are The Fabrication", (based on his love of fabricating lyrics) Murder by Death's "Killbot 2000" and This Day Forward's "Sunfalls and Watershine." Geoff also occasionally performs solo, most recently in Hoboken, New Jersey at the Eyeball Records holiday party, performing Autumn Leaves Revisited and This Side of Brightness acoustic.
Lyrically, Rickly has been known to draw from a wide variety of influences, many of them being authors and poets. In a March 2009 interview, he cited the works of Denis Johnson, Martin Amis, Roberto Bolaño and David Foster Wallace as being among...
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