the thursday archive

cataloguing media related to the band thursday

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Welcome to thursdayarchive! This blog collects photos, interviews, videos, and other online content from the band Thursday’s history.

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(just a bit of a maintenance note - today I went through and updated some of the broken photo links in the thursday primer!)

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Geoff Rickly and Tom Keeley of Thursday play This Side of Brightness together after Thursday’s break up. The song was the first the band ever wrote together in 1999. May 18, 2013 at Jaxx (Empire) in West Springfield, Virginia. (Source)

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THURSDAY BRACKET 2

Since the Thursday fanbase has grown so much on here since the last bracket, I decided to run it again to see if anything changed. This version also has more songs, links to listen to each song and hopefully will be a little bit more organised this year :). Vote for your favourite song on each poll, play nice and let's see what the winner is! Have fun!

Links to polls:

Round 1

Understanding In A Car Crash vs Time's Arrow Autumn Leaves Revisited vs Sugar In The Sacrament I Am The Killer vs Love Has Led Us Astray At This Velocity vs A Darker Forest Paris In Flames vs Panic On The Streets Of Health Care City Wind Up vs Turnpike Divides Autobiography Of A Nation vs You Were The Cancer This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb vs Into The Blinding Light War All The Time vs Circuits of Fever The Lovesong Writer vs No Answers The Other Side Of The Crash/Over And Out (Of Control) vs Dying in New Brunswick Jet Black New Year vs Ian Curtis Counting 5-4-3-2-1 vs Subway Funeral Marches And Maneuvers vs Arc-Lamps, Signal Flares, A Shower Of White (The Light) Concealer vs Fake Nostalgia Tomorrow I'll Be You vs Streaks In The Sky Signals Over The Air vs A Gun in the First Act I1100 vs We Will Overcome Running From The Rain vs Beyond The Visible Spectrum Steps Ascending vs Friends In The Armed Forces Cross Out The Eyes vs Application For Release From The Dream M. Shepard vs Porcelain Between Rupture And Rapture vs Ladies And Gentlemen: My Brother, The Failure A0001 vs Sparks Against the Sun Standing On The Edge Of Summer vs Even The Sand Is Made Of Seashells This Side of Brightness vs Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart Division St. vs As He Climbed The Dark Mountain Asleep In The Chapel vs Last Call For The Workforce, Drowning vs Dead Songs Fast to the End vs Telegraph Avenue Kiss A Hole In The World vs Common Existence How Long Is The Night? vs Resuscitation Of A Dead Man

Prelim round

Time's Arrow vs Where the Circle Ends Love Has Led Us Astray vs Mass as Shadows A Darker Forest vs Fuck You, I'm In Space Empty Glass vs Panic On The Streets Of Health Care City You Were The Cancer vs In Silence Circuits Of Fever vs Voices On A String Dying in New Brunswick vs Appeared and Was Gone Ian Curtis vs Hide From The Orchestra Open Quotes vs Subway Funeral Past and Future Ruins vs Fake Nostalgia A Gun in the First Act vs Unintended Long Term Effects Beyond The Visible Spectrum vs An Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace Friends In The Armed Forces vs Middle Distances Application For Release From The Dream vs Millimeter Ladies And Gentlemen: My Brother, The Failure vs The Worst Vow Even The Sand Is Made Of Seashells vs The Dotted Line As He Climbed The Dark Mountain vs The Roar Of Far Off Black Jets Last Call vs Stolen Guitars In-Transmission vs Dead Songs Introduction vs Common Existence

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But like so many bands of its era with bills to pay and a reputation to uphold, Thursday isn’t above indulging in emo nostalgia. “I used to get really bummed on being like, ‘We’re doing “Full Collapse” tonight,’” Rule admitted. This wore on Rickly as well, until a conversation with Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance around the time the two bands teamed up for an anniversary tour helped put things into perspective. “We were talking about how much better things are now, not because we’re standing on the stage in an arena,” he said. “This is life after death for the band, there’s nothing to prove,” he added. “Stop worrying about like, ‘Do I even like these old songs?’ Of course you do, they’re great songs.”

Ian Cohen, The New York Times, "Thursday Ends a 13-Year Break From New Music With a Pointed Song," April 12, 2024.

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But ultimately, he had to weigh his personal misgivings against the one thing the trio could unequivocally agree upon — being in Thursday is difficult, but not being Thursday is worse.

Ian Cohen, The New York Times, "Thursday Ends a 13-Year Break From New Music With a Pointed Song," April 12, 2024.

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April 12, 2024: Thursday releases Application For Release From The Dream, their first new music in 13 years!

Songwriting credit given to Geoff Rickly, Norman Brannon, Steve Pedulla, Stu Richardson, Tucker Rule, and Tim Payne, and production credit given to Stu Richardson!

The song is available to stream as of Midnight (your local time) on April 12, 2024.

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are you guys the admins for the instagram account too?

That's not us, no - we'll always include full sources and links in our posts. Unfortunately Instagram isn't a great platform for that tbh

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Geoff Rickly of No Devotion performing at Cardiff University on July 22, 2014. Source: Mike Lewis Photography

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Geoff Rickly performing in the hardcore punk supergroup United Nations at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on August 2, 2014. Source: Ashley Nicole

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Geoff Rickly performing in the hardcore punk supergroup United Nations at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on August 2, 2014. Source: Ashley Nicole

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Geoff Rickly of No Devotion performing at Cardiff University on July 22, 2014. Source: Mike Lewis Photography

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Geoff Rickly of No Devotion performing at Cardiff University on July 22, 2014. Source: Mike Lewis Photography

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Geoff Rickly of No Devotion performing at Cardiff University on July 22, 2014. Source: Mike Lewis Photography

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Geoff Rickly performing in the hardcore punk supergroup United Nations at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on August 2, 2014. Source: Ashley Nicole

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No Devotion performing at Cardiff University on July 22, 2014. Source: Mike Lewis Photography

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Geoff Rickly performing in the hardcore punk supergroup United Nations at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on August 2, 2014. Source: Ashley Nicole