Geoff Rickly

Geoff Rickly

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, most notably My Chemical Romance's 2002 debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.

Prior to singing in Thursday, Rickly trained to be an English teacher.

To his fans, he is known as "Georgia Man" for his "Georgia: State Parks And Historic Sites" T-shirt.

Trivia

• Prior to Thursday, he and Joe Darone were in a band called Useless.
• Geoff's favourite live show was screamo 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 Greenwalds 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?" [3]
• Reported to have epilepsy.