THURSDAY ROCKS SOLD OUT GIG IN LOS ANGELES

Feb 28

Thursday sold out The Regent in Los Angeles on February 18th. The post-hardcore kingpins have been touring the country with the indie legends in Cursive, The Appleseed Cast, and Nate Bergman. This tour has persevered through a series of unfortunate mishaps, from freaky weather, bouts with COVID, to Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly breaking his foot mid performance, but the train has kept a rollin’ and their recent Los Angeles stop was a sweat filled night to remember! Cursive was rocking the stage as we settled into the ultra-packed Regent. The venue was pretty close to capacity at this point and the front lines were filled with Cursive fans singing along with their favorite tunes.

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As mentioned before, Thursday’s singer Geoff recently broke his foot while performing on tour. That meant Mr. Rickly was rocking a cast and a knee scooter to help him maneuver around on stage this night. Despite the awkward mobility issue and the fact that he was obviously in a bit of pain, Rickly and Thursday put on a masterful performance. The band opened with “For The Workforce, Drowning” off 2003’s epic War All The Time, and the venue all but exploded with energy. Thursday played a set loaded with fan favorites off of the aforementioned War All The Time and 2001’s milestone, Full Collapse, while managing to sprinkle in a few gems from 2006’s A City by the Light Divided, as well a sweet as hell cover of Texas Is The Reason’s “If It’s Here When We Get Back It’s Ours” with special guest Scott Winegard on bass alongside his old TITR and current Thursday live guitarist Norman Brannon, which constitutes a mini-reunion of sorts.

Rickly thanked the audience for their continued support over the band’s 20-year run and for spending their Friday night singing along with Thursday’s patent get-down depression anthems. As gloomy as their lyrical content might get, there’s almost nothing as cathartic or uplifting as losing your voice at a Thursday show. Sometimes the crowd took center stage, shouting the words to “Signals Over the Air” and “Autobiography of a Nation” so loud they drowned out the band. Due to Rickly’s injury, there was no way he’d hobble back on stage for an encore so the band just rocked straight through their set. They ended the night with “War All The Time” and Los Angeles was a better place for it.