Thursday - Kill The House Lights CD/DVD

Band Members
Tom Keeley
Tim Payne
Geoff Rickly
Steve Pedulla
Tucker Rule
Andrew Everding

Thursday.net
Myspace.com/Thursday



CD Tracklisting
1. Lady and Gentlemen: My Brother, The Failure
2. Dead Songs
3. Voices on A String
4. Signals Over the Air [Live]
5. How Long is the Night [Original Intro]
6. A Sketch for Time’s Arrow
7. Panic on the Streets of Health Care City
8. The Roars of Far Off Black Jets
9. Paris in Flames [Demo]
10. Telegraph Avenue Kiss [Rich Costey Mix]
11. Wind-Up [Demo]
12. from ‘Kill All The House Lights’ [Demo]

DVD Tracklisting
Band history documentary
Live performances from 2006 show at The Starland Ballroom


From basements to bedrooms, Thursday are a band found among many a collections but are often thought of as a band that are big without being huge. Kill the House Lights is a two part set; half in visuals of the life and times of the band from starting out, losing and gaining members and fans as well as the struggles as a group they’ve gone through to create the other half of audio from live tracks, demos and a few new songs too. Credited as one of the founding bands on the DIY music scene in the ‘emo’ era they’ve maintained a career that may not have reached the heights of some of their peers but they have inspired much of the rock scene today and established their place in rock and post-hardcore/emo history.

Though the documentary is quite short considering the time span the band have been playing and working together it does cover all the major aspects of the ‘band life’ to paint a complete and personal picture of who Thursday were and are. The recent tracks sound just as good as the old and the live have the same beating passion behind them as the album versions marking them out as an act worthy of the their image as a classic live band. Encourage the same passion in their audience as they project of the lyrics Thursday hit all the right notes as they blend melody, vocals, screams and heart from ‘Signals over the Air’, ‘Paris in Flames’ to ‘Lady and Gentlemen: My Brother, The Failure’.

A worthy introduction to a band if you haven’t heard their work before and a wonderful addition to their back catalogue if you are already a fan; however if this is the first Thursday record you buy it is sure not to be the last. For further Thursday goodness try ‘War All the Time’ (my personal favourite at the moment) or Full Collapse.


Review by Laura Heath


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