Bio

Geoffrey William Rickly (born March 8, 1979) is a singer and songwriter from Dumont, New Jersey. He is most known for forming the alternative rock/post-hardcore band Thursday in 1997, which got its start playing basement shows in New Brunswick and surrounding New Jersey and New York areas. Thursday is on hiatus as of 2012 and Geoff is currently the frontman of the experimental punk/powerviolence supergroup United Nations. Musicians who have taken part in the project include Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw and Head Automatica and Converge drummer Ben Koller. The lineup for their performances in January 2013 includes David Haik (the drummer of Pianos Become the Teeth) and another unidentified guitarist from the band. Geoff Rickly has been playing solo shows and released two mixtapes: Mixtape 1 and Darker Matter/// Mixtape 2. Both mixtapes are available at http://geoffrickly.bandcamp.com. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.