Thursday.
Состав:
Geoff Rickly – Vocals
Tom Keeley – Guitar and Backing Vocals
Steve Pedulla – Guitar and Backing Vocals
Tim Payne – Bass
Tucker Rule – Drums
Andrew Everding – Keyboards, Synthesizer and Backing Vocals
Thursday была создана в 1997 году в составе вокалиста Джоффа Рикли, гитаристов Тома Кили и Билли Хендерсона, басиста Тима Пэйна и ударника Такера Рула. Первый свой официальный концерт группа дала 31 декабря 1998 года вместе с такими известными сейчас альтернативными группами, как Saves The Day, Midtown, Poison The Well.
Летом 1999 года опубликовала на сайте MP3.com несколько демо-записей, которые составили первый неофициальный релиз группы — мини-альбом «1999 Tour». Дебютный альбом «Waiting» был выпущен в январе 2000 года на лейбле Eyeball Records. Второй альбом «Full Collapse» был выпущен в апреле 2001 года на более крупном чикагском лейбле Victory Records, однако не попал в ротацию на радио и ТВ. Не поставив в известность группу, Victory Records стал раскручивать песню «Understanding In A Car Crash» и сделал на нее клип (состоящий из нарезки живых выступлений группы), который транслировался по каналу MTV2.
Гитарист Билл Хендерсон покинул группу, и его место занял Стив Педалла. Мини-альбом «Five Stories Falling», состоящий из записей концертных выступлений и одной новой песни — «Jet Black New Year», вышел в октябре 2002, и это был последний релиз группы на лейбле Victory Records.
Альбом «War All The Time» (2003) «Thursday» подписали контракт с мэйджором Island Records, и 16 сентября 2003 года вышел их дебют на большом лейбле — «War All The Time». Многие слушатели полагают, что это «политический альбом», намекающий на военную акцию США в Ираке и террористические акты 11 сентября (альбом вышел спустя ровно два года после них). Сама группа утверждает, что никакой политики в альбоме нет и что они имели в виду «любовь как войну». MTV отказалось транслировать клип на песню «War All The Time», мотивируя это тем, что он «слишком двусмысленный».
Некоторые критики называют альбом «самым влиятельным эмокор-альбомом XXI века». Альбом достиг седьмой позиции в чарте Биллбоард 200. В США было продано около 360 тыс. его копий. Десятый трек альбома называется «M. Shepard» и посвящен американскому студенту Мэтью Шепарду, убитому в 1998 году за свою сексуальную ориентацию. В записи альбома принимал участие новый член группы Эндрю Эвердинг (клавиши). Альбом «A City By The Light Divided» (2006) В 2005 году, во время записи нового альбома, пять демо-версий новых песен были украдены с iPod’а менеджера группы «My American Heart» и попали в Интернет. Поначалу «Thursday» были вне себя от ярости, но потом выпустили специальное заявление, где говорили, что они рады, что их музыка привлекает столько внимания.
Новый альбом «A City By The Light Divided» сначала хотели сделать двойным, но потом отказались от этой идеи («даже Beatles не смогли заполнить два диска достаточно цельным (solid) материалом»). 2 мая 2006 года альбом был выпущен. Название альбома Джофф Рикли составил из двух строчек стихотворения Октавио Паса.
Waiting
http://getalbums.ifolder.ru/1244664
EP Five Stories Falling
http://rapidshare.com/files/35313576/Thursday_-_five_stories_falling_EP.rar
War All The Time
http://ifolder.ru/1244652
A City By The Light Divided
http://getalbums.ifolder.ru/1458021
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Thursday is a post-hardcore band from New Brunswick, New Jersey that has released four full-length albums: Waiting (2000 Eyeball Records), Full Collapse (2001 Victory Records), War All the Time (2003 Island Records), and A City by the Light Divided (2006 Island Records). Despite popular belief, the bands name does NOT come from the Turning Point Song.
Formation and Waiting
Thursday was formed in 1997 by vocalist Geoff Rickly, guitarist Tom Keeley, guitarist Bill Henderson, bassist Tim Payne, and drummer Tucker Rule. The band began playing basement shows in New Brunswick, and surrounding areas. The band played their first official show on December 31, 1998 in Rickly's basement alongside Midtown, Saves The Day and Poison The Well.
They recorded demos to hand out at shows and in the summer of 1999 they teamed up with MP3.com for their first official release, the 1999 Tour EP which featured demos of songs that would be soon be found on their debut EP, Waiting, released January 18, 2000, on New Jersey-based Eyeball Records.
Full Collapse
Hesitant to join a larger label, but with full support from Eyeball Records, Thursday signed to Chicago, Illinois-based label Victory Records. The band's relationship with Victory Records would be a troubled one, as the band and the label rarely saw eye to eye. Thursday finished up their follow-up to Waiting, Full Collapse, but could not release it the way they intended; Victory Records claimed the band's lyrics were unimportant and not worth the extra packaging. Further, Victory Records created Thursday whoopie cushions for distribution at Warped Tour, an act that infuriated the band.
Full Collapse was released on April 10, 2001, without much radio or television support. The band toured in support of the album, but did not receive support from Victory Records. It was not until the band joined fellow New Jersey friends Saves the Day on a tour that Victory Records began paying notice to the band; without the band's consent they began marketing "Understanding in a Car Crash" as the band's first single, and released a video (comprised of live footage) that would receive airplay on MTV2. By this point, guitarist Bill Henderson had left the band to be replaced by Steve Pedulla.
After many tours and months of unhappiness, Thursday was nearing the end of their life as a band. Angry with each other (for reasons none of the band members could recount when asked later) and at Victory Records, the band recorded a song for the Five Stories Falling EP, the band's last release on Victory Records. Rickly has been quoted many times (at live shows and in interviews) stating that he and the band simply released that record to fulfill contractual obligations, and that fans should simply download the one new song that can be found on the disc.
The one new song found on the Five Stories Falling EP (released October 22, 2002) is "Jet Black New Year", possibly Thursday's most popular song within the underground music community. The band has described the effort as a musical fight against each other, unable to communicate with one another in any other way. The lyrics draw from an experience that is documented in story form in the extensive liner notes found with the disc. Additionally, each of the other band members contributed a story (some factual, some fictional) to the liner notes.
War All the Time
Thursday parted ways in an unfriendly manner with Victory Records and joined Island Records. Their major label debut, War All the Time, was released September 16, 2003. The album's title, coupled with it being released approximately two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led many critics to believe it was a political album; Rickly has denied this on many accounts, instead claiming that he is speaking about love being a war.
War All the Time featured Andrew Everding on keyboards, though he would not become an official member of the band until December 26, 2003, when he was officially welcomed into the band at the band's now-traditional Christmas holiday shows held at New Jersey's Starland Ballroom, in Sayreville.
War All the Time received both praise and criticism; many felt that it did not live up to Full Collapse, an album that is often credited as being one of the most influential post-hardcore albums of the twenty-first century. The band has since stated that they felt rushed to write, record, and release the album due to the pressures of a major label. The entire writing and recording process took only six months; the band has claimed they almost forced themselves into a contained sound on the album.
The first song released off of the album was "For the Workforce, Drowning" released prior to their performance at Hellfest 2004. This song seemed to push Thursday further down the road that "Jet Black New Year" had started. Their performance at Hellfest, which included a cover of Far's "Mother Mary" featuring former Far lead singer Jonah Matranga seemed to be revolutionary. However, "For the Workforce, Drowning" turned out to be a one of a kind on their album.
The first single (and only single to receive full radio and television support) was "Signals Over the Air", a song Rickly claims to be about the sexual revolution. A special radio edit version of this song exists, which removes part of the bridge near the end of the song. The UK single disc contains two extra songs: acoustic versions of Full Collapse's "A Hole In the World" and War All the Time's "Division St".
The second single, the title track "War All the Time", was released much later, but due to the video's controversial nature, never received much radio airplay or rotation on MTV. Thursday has said many times they are not sure what is so controversial about their video. The video contained no violent or sexual themes.
Thursday toured extensively to support War All the Time, taking their friends Thrice and Coheed and Cambria on a full US tour before joining AFI on another tour. During this time, Thursday performed many in-store acoustic sessions in places like Tower Records; Thursday also recorded live acoustic tracks for Y100 Sonic Sessions, a radio program on the now defunct Philadelphia-based radio station, Y100. The live acoustic version of single "Signals Over The Air" was used on Y100 Sonic Sessions Volume 8.
Thursday also performed at the Apple Store in New York in October of 2003, which was recorded as a live acoustic session split release with Thrice, who played the same day at the Apple Store in LA. Those recordings were issued exclusively through iTunes. A promotional EP, Live In Detroit, was released late in 2003 through Revolver magazine.
A City by the Light Divided
Rickly began to become sick quite often on the road; the band did not always get to finish their entire show, especially during the European leg of the tour. This, in addition to nonstop touring and creative issues within the band, forced the band to go on an indefinite hiatus in 2004.
The band came together once again for a charitable cause to save New York punk club, CBGB, on August 25, 2005. This performance (like every CBGB performance) was streamed live through the CBGB's website; thus, it was bootlegged - the bootleg features two live songs that have never been released. It is unsure if they were ever recorded in the studio.
Around this time a five song personal demo was leaked onto the Internet, taken from My American Heart's manager's iPod. (Rickly performed guest vocals on My American Heart's 2005 album). The band was initially upset that the personal demos of the songs were leaked, but soon issued a statement telling fans they are happy that people take so much interest in their music.
Thursday confirmed that one song from the demos, "At This Velocity", would be on their upcoming full-length. Three other songs ("The Other Side Of The Crash/Over And Out (Of Control)", "Telegraph Avenue Kiss", and "Autumn Leaves Revisited") would also make the album, despite significant changes from their demo form. One song remains untitled and unreleased, and the band has not yet announced whether there are any plans for that song. The band continued its holiday show tradition that winter, playing some of the demos ("At This Velocity" and other new material such as "The Lovesong Writer") live.
Thursday hinted at a two CD double album to follow up War All The Time, but scrapped that idea, saying that not even The Beatles could fill two full CDs with enough solid material. The original plan was to let one disc showcase the band's softer side, while allowing the other disc to showcase the band's harder side.
Another idea hinted at early on was that the album would feature guest bands (such as Cursive, Converge, The Blackout Pact, The Blood Brothers, and My Chemical Romance); this idea, though not scrapped according to Everding, did not appear on the album but is instead likely to be seen on a charitable EP due late 2006.
A City by the Light Divided would be Thursday's follow-up to War All the Time; this is Thursday's first full-length not produced by Sal Villanueva, but instead produced by Dave Fridmann. The title is influenced by a poem from Octavio Paz, entitled "Sunstone". An excerpt from a different poem by Paz is also included in the album's liner notes.
Island Records allowed fans to preview the entire album in a low quality stream through MySpace on April 18, 2006, a few weeks before its official release on May 2, 2006. The first single from the album was "Counting 5-4-3-2-1" which draws inspiration from real-life tragic events experienced by the band growing up in New Brunswick.
On September 15, 2006, AbsolutePunk.net reported that an author covering a lawsuit between Victory Records and Hawthorne Heights mentioned that Thursday has been dropped from Island Records. There are rumors that Island has been looking to drop its rock bands that aren't turning profits and Thursday's latest Island album, A City by the Light Divided, did not sell nearly as much as its previous record, War All the Time. However, these rumors were corrected within hours and the author of the original article confirmed that Thursday had not been dropped from Island.
The band's latest video, "At This Velocity" is currently screening on the Island Records website, Yahoo! music, IMF, and is also available for download on iTunes. A "full length" version of the video containing an extended opening with Geoff Rickly telling "the story" that inspired the song can be found on cinematographer Jon Fordham's website at jonfordham.com/thursday.
The band played the 2006 Vans Warped Tour in the US, and played the Australian dates of the 2006 Rockstar International Taste of Chaos tour. Thursday also co-headlined a US tour with Rise Against , in addition to doing a headlining tour in the winter-spring of 2007 with support from Fear Before The March Of Flames , Murder By Death, and Heavy Heavy Low Low.
Thursday were also due to go on tour with My Chemical Romance in March 2007 in the UK. They would have stopped at Plymouth, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow and London. The two bands are known to be friends.
However, on March 27th, 2007, Thursday announced that they had split up from their record label, Island Def Jam. The announcement was made on their Myspace blog. Touring plans were to be unchanged by this split. However, on April 4th, less than two weeks later, the band canceled all touring plans they had in 2007, excluding one show.
In August of 2007 the band announces a short fall tour in support of their first DVD project, a dual CD/DVD titled "Kill The House Lights." The CD portion is to feature five new songs, as well as B-sides from Full Collapse and WATT, demo versions of Full Collapse songs, and a few live songs. The DVD is to feature 90 minutes footage of band history, as well as the entirety of the band's Dec. 27, 2006 holiday show at Starland Ballroom. Support for the fall tour comes from Circle Takes the Square.
Thursday plans to continue the tradition of playing a holiday show at Starland Ballroom in 2007, taking it one step further - this time the show is scheduled on New Year's Eve.
Other Projects
Geoff Rickly is currently working on a grindcore side project called United Nations. This is a collaborative effort with Daryl Palumbo , Chree , Cooper and Thursday's Guitar tech, Josh Mihlek.
Current Members
Geoff Rickly – Vocals
Tom Keeley – Guitar and Backing Vocals
Steve Pedulla – Guitar and Backing Vocals
Tim Payne – Bass
Tucker Rule – Drums
Andrew Everding – Keyboards, Synthesizer and Backing Vocals
Former
Bill Henderson – guitar and backing vocals on Waiting (Member of The Procedure, Purpose, x One Way x and Between The Wars)