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We did a summer tour where I read all of Pynchon's books you really have to not want to talk to people to read V. We wouldn't hang out, it got really dark for us for a couple of years. Rickly: I remember, when we got to the homebody stage, we would resent going back on tour. We used to be like, 'Tour is home, fuck being home, home sucks,' and now we're like, 'Yo, home is so sick.' Nick bought a house, everyone moved in with their significant others and instantly became homebodies. We did five shows in Australia and then that whole rest of the year pretty much did very minimal things and were just trying to write the record. Then we were home October, November, December. īolm: Honestly, since Stage Four came out, it's the most active we've ever been because the night my mom passed was scheduled as the last show we were going to be playing for a long time. There's a sort of awe and envy that you guys are still able to do it and also a relief that I'm not doing it. It's funny watching you guys because you tour so much too. But six months in the USA is insane because you're hitting every place three times.

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We did a full tour after we had finished War All The Time but hadn't put it out yet and then we did that three-month long tour with Thrice and Coheed & Cambria where we had almost no days off and then we did the international stuff. Rickly: A lot of it, believe it or not, was in America. We had a day off every two weeks or something but were barely home.īolm: Were you guys jet-setting a lot during that period too or was it just America? Rickly: We hit 1,000 really quick with Thursday because in 2003 we played over 300 shows, so that year really shot our average way up. Rickly: I remember the way you looked at stages on that tour like, 'Really? The stage is that size?' You know what I mean? You guys were still used to rec halls.īolm: What's really crazy is that we have a documented list of every show we have ever played and we're at a point where at the end of this year we might be able to actually line things up where our 1,000th show is on the ten-year anniversary of our first show. Our first show was February, 2008, and the first tour we did with Thursday was in 2009, so we started playing shows with you guys pretty early on in our career. It's funny, the Wikipedia page and internet both say 2007, which I wish I could change because I feel like you aren't a band until you've recorded or played your first show. Jeremy Bolm: It's been almost ten years, which is terrifying. It started one way dynamically and it's shifted so many times over the years because now you guys have been a band for a while. I love his band, I go see them in Australia when I'm there and it has nothing to do with music, and it's the most memorable part of the trip because it's something that I really love.

I'm such a fan of Jeremy's band, and I think as you get older, you don't think about who's on what level, you just think about what you really like. Geoff Rickly: I think we are peers by now, not to interject.

What's the dynamic between you and Geoff considering the way you met? Do you feel like peers? Noisey: Jeremy, you started the first Thursday fan site, but at this point your own band has been around for almost a decade. Rickly and Bolm recently sat down before the first night of their two sold-out gigs at New York City's Irving Plaza to talk about their bands' intertwining histories and what their respective futures hold. Considering that Touché Amoré is now one of the biggest names in their genre, the 2009 tour was something of a torch-passing event, with Rickly finding a rightful successor in Bolm. That year marked the release of Touché Amoré's breakout debut album, …To the Beat of a Dead Horse, which would build them their own devoted following, whereas Thursday would soon be dwindling down and going on hiatus. In 2009, the two bands toured together and, in hindsight, it was more significant than it seemed at the time.