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Deciding that a holiday tour with Vein.fm and Laura Jane Grace, alongside the world premiere performance of SIGNALS LIVE in New Jersey (featuring Norman Brannon from Texas Is The Reason and Travis Stever from Coheed and Cambria) just isn’t enough, emo pioneers Thursday have extended the party well into 2022 with the announcement of their first coastto-coast North American tour in three years. The triumph and tragedy (and back to triumph) story of the band is well documented, from their humble beginnings in 1997 to worldwide magazine cover success all through the aughts to the kind of renaissance comeback that LL COOL J writes songs about in the 20-teens. 2019 in particular was a landmark year. They performed 44 sold-out American shows in celebration of their 20th Anniversary and also toured Germany, Holland, England and Japan. At the year’s end, My Chemical Romance hand-picked them as the sole support on their epic return to the live stage at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The band invested in shades, as the future and 2020 was looking pretty bright. Well-intentioned plans soon gave way to global circumstance and the great isolation of March 2020 saw the band pivot to innovation when they invoked the DIY spirit that was omnipresent during their late 90’s basement days by mobilizing alongside grassroots cloth cutters and Dave Matthew’s fabric factory to manufacture, create and donate thousands of masks to frontline workers in their beloved New York and New Jersey. They also became film makers and created a trilogy quarantine livestream series entitled ‘SIGNALS’ between August 2020 and April 2021. Summer 2021 saw vocalist “Geoff Rickly of Thursday” cautiously embark on a solo run before the band teamed up with old friends Taking Back Sunday and Piebald for a September minitour. Their triumphant weekend at Riot Fest perfectly illustrated the contradictory duality that the band has always existed in. They were the hottest ticket in town on Saturday night at the 400 capacity Cobra Lounge (which sold out in 45 seconds) before playing to 40,000 people the next evening as the sun came down. The following weekend saw them perform at the revived Furnace Fest. An epiphany was had and the sense of community spirit between performer and audience in the shadows of the great Sloss Furnaces was undeniable. The only way to describe the experience was spiritual. The band returned home with one mission – they had to build out those feelings of inspiration, community, kindred spirits, phenomenal music and excitement over the course of a tour. They shot for the stars and asked Cursive, Jeremy Enigk (of Sunny Day Real Estate / The Fire Thef fame) and The Appleseed Cast if they would grant Thursday the honor of performing alongside them. They all said yes!
With a collective 106 years of existence between the four acts, this tour is a celebration of hope – past, present and future. Arguably the most exciting thing is that this once in a lifetime collaboration was not put together by business people; it was put together by friends calling friends and saying “let’s do this”.
