Thursday
| Thursday | |
|---|---|
 Thursday live in New York (2004) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) |
Post-hardcore indie rock progressive rock emo |
| founding | 1997, 2016 |
| resolution | 2011 |
| Website | http://www.thursday.net/ |
| Founding members | |
| Geoff Rickly | |
| Tom Keeley | |
guitar |
Steve Pedulla |
| Tim Payne | |
| Tucker Rule | |
| Andrew Everding | |
Thursday ( Engl . For Thursday ) is a company incorporated in 1997, post-hardcore band from New Brunswick ( USA ), whose style also the experimental Emocore is assigned.
Band history
When Thursday 1997 was founded by singer Geoff Rickly, guitarists Steve Pedulla and Tom Keely, bassist Tim Payne and drummer Tucker Rule, the band was more an outlet for youthful anger and aggression. It was good for the later success that the band members all lived together in a house in New Jersey, the basement of which was often used as a concert space for bands like At the Drive-In or Hot Water Music , with whom Thursday shared the stage. Long known as a local big name, the New York label Eyeball discovered the band in 1999 and released their debut album Waiting . Despite intensive tours on the east coast of the USA, the breakthrough was a long time coming.
Only when Thursday 2001 switched to Victory Records and there released their second album Full Collapse , which sold over 200,000 copies in the USA alone, did the long-awaited success come. Even music channels such as MTV played Thursdays Singles Understanding In A Car Crash or Cross Out The Eyes , and Thursday was also allowed to play at a concert organized by MTV. After another label change in 2003 to the major label Island Records , the third album War All The Time was released in the USA in autumn 2003 and in Germany in spring 2004. It continued the musical direction of the last album.
The second album on Island Records was released on May 2, 2006, A City By The Light Divided , whose first single was the song Counting 5-4-3-2-1 . The band now relied heavily on the help of digital technology, which gave the band's own musical style a new flavor. This triggered positive but also negative reactions from fans after the album was released. At the end of March 2007, the band announced that they had canceled the contract with their record label.
In May 2008 the band was allowed to represent Good Charlotte at the Groezrock Festival and was thus headliner at an important European festival for the first time. In mid-February 2009 her new album Common Existence came out on the Epitaph Records label . This was followed by the Taste of Chaos tour through North America and a European tour as part of the “Give It A Name” festival.
After the seventh studio album No Devolución was released in April 2011 , Thursday on November 22, 2011 announced their breakup.
The band members always emphasized that they were vegan or vegetarian and were committed to the animal rights organization PETA .
In March 2016, the band announced their comeback for the Wrecking Ball Festival in Atlanta.
style
Their music is characterized by desperate sounding vocals, which also know shrill screams, guitar riffs and a concise drums, which together give an impulsive impression. Her style moves between experimental, albeit slow, emo and relatively poppy post-hardcore . Sometimes their style is also mistakenly assigned to the Screamo . In their songs, the band deals with everyday problems and tragedies as well as love and friendship, with occasional social criticism and (more left-wing) political statements being incorporated.
Discography
EPs / splits
- 2002 Five Stories Falling (Live EP, Victory Records)
- 2008 Split CD with Envy (Temporary Residence Limited)
Albums
- 1999 Waiting (Eyeball)
- 2002 Full Collapse (Victory Records)
- 2003 War All The Time (Island Records)
- 2006 A City By The Light Divided (Island Records)
- 2007 Kill The House Lights (CD / DVD) (Victory Records)
- 2009 Common Existence (Epitaph Records)
- 2011 No Devolución (Epitaph Records)
Singles
From full collapse
- 2001 Understanding In A Car Crash
- 2002 Cross Out The Eyes
From War All The Time
- 2003 Signals Over The Air
- 2003 For The Workforce, Drowning
- 2004 Was All The Time
From A City by the Light Divided
- 2006 Counting 5-4-3-2-1
- 2007 At This Velocity
From Common Existence
- 2008 Resuscitation of a Dead Man
M. Shepard
Not a single, but one of their better known songs. The track found on the album War All The Time is about the murder of Matthew Shepard , who was murdered in Laramie in 1998 because of his homosexuality by two fellow students of the same age. The case caused a stir at the time and Thursday's song M. Shepard became a protest song against Fred Phelps and his supporters, who advocated the murder of Matthew S. and caused a stir with signs like Matthew in Hell .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ News on the label split, March 28, 2007
- ↑ News report on GETADDICTED ( memento of the original from November 26th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 22, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-thursday06.asp ; Accessed December 12, 2007; The other half is that they take pride in standing up for animals: Drummer Tucker Rule has been vegetarian for more than 16 years; singer Geoff Rickly knows that you shouldn't breed and buy while animals die; and Tom Keeley and Tim Payne even starred in our cute peta2 companion animal ad with their dogs Kiko and Dexter (look right).
- ↑ http://pitchfork.com/news/64320-thursday-reunite/
- ↑ http://www.plattentests.de/rezi.php?show=4057 ; accessed December 12, 2007; Quote: That Thursday is just another overrated screamo band .
