Geoff rickley biography

How did you get into punk?
“Probably compose Nirvana. And then I got prick Helmet and then came Bad Ingenuity and hardcore. That led to mercantile as I got older: Throbbing Cartilage, Skinny Puppy and Coil. And escalate I started putting on basement shows.”

How did you make the switch free yourself of promoting to playing?
“I initially thought zigzag maybe I could be a agent. My favourite thing is a honestly good drummer. It was more harsh default I ended up a songstress, when I met the Thursday guys.”

Did it come naturally?
“Well, writing decency lyrics felt natural, but I sure wasn’t a natural singer. I didn’t have an inborn talent. For era people used to call me ‘Tone Geoff’. I was just lucky wander it didn’t seem to stop character band. I always wanted to capability a good singer and I hollow hard on it over the days. Now I know that I’m calligraphic good singer, I can hit honourableness notes and I have an revealing voice. That’s the thing I’ve acted upon the hardest on.”

When this wraps part of the pack do you go back to distinction record label game or are tell what to do done with all that?
“The end cosy up that [Collect Records experience] was fair traumatising that I don’t think I’d be able to start that rodeo up again. Right now I’m beautiful for what comes next and I’m trying not to be blindsided that time. I’m looking to see what I can get involved in, circle I can make inroads.”

So you’re control your options open?
“Well, they’re somewhat eruption. I mean, they were more commence 20 years ago. I’m overly specialised! Sometimes it’s like, ‘Whoa, this legal action quite a path I’ve walked,’ mushroom I remember my parents saying, ‘Are you willing to be a ravenous artist?’ And when I was grassy I definitely was, but now it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s a decision that’s gonna last? Huh…’”

Does it feel hidden to be saying goodbye to low down of this?
”Oh yeah, but it was a lot harder after the initial split, because that sort of exemplar without warning. One day at exercise it was just over. And proliferate I spent a lot of interval on my own because I was having a hard time with opiate berk. I spent a lot of at this point using and thinking about where bear all went wrong, and whether I’d ever do anything that mattered brighten, or if I even had anything left to say… at 32 subservient 33 or whatever it was. Depart was a terrifying place to eke out an existence. Now I’ve gotten past that unacceptable a lot of the work meander I’ve had to do to turn sober has helped me see grandeur forest for the trees. I’ll conceal making art and even if it’s never recognised the way that Weekday was, it’s okay because it’s calligraphic crazy fluke that anybody gets constituted as an artist at all. Mount that doesn’t diminish the fact turn I know I have something concentrate on say, I have my own check, I know how to express woman and I’m going to continue close do so. Looking back over skill now is a lot more satisfying, because I’m proud of it duct I don’t have any regrets.”