Geoff Rickly of Thursday talked with Human Pursuits:
We’ve settled into a comfortable spot now—highly influential and beloved by cerebral elements of the fandom—but not the leading band by any populist metric.
That’s probably where we always belonged, but because we were doing something different before everyone else, there was a moment where we were the band to watch—sort of like Turnstile is now. We were selling out 5,000 capacity theatres, right at that point of being as big as you can get without being a household name. It happened a year into Full Collapse being out. That record sold 700 copies the week it was released; it was not a hit. Then all of a sudden, boom, it was. None of us knew how deal with it; there was no PR training.
Part two can be found here:
I’m really proud of Thursday that we waited until the hype died down. When you get back together, you’re playing your biggest shows ever, selling 3,000 tickets in huge rooms. You can do that once or twice on a reunion, but if you become a band again, you have to re-normalise. We waited until we had normalized and until we knew each other a little bit. We wrote a lot of songs that we didn’t release that were, quite frankly, bad.