Coming Full Circle on a Thursday

Geoff Rickly - Thursday - Full City Devolución Tour - April 1st, 2026

This time last year I was getting ready to spend a month on the road following L.S. Dunes on tour. Strangely (happily?), I'm doing the same thing again this year, just a different band (okay, same drummer and OG bassist, but still). 

I’m in Philly now as I write this and watched Thursday start their Full City Devolution tour last night, and ooohhhh boy is this gonna be a special tour 🤘 

So, same open road, same girl with a camera (and maybe some new, yet old ones) and same passion to be creative.

In that time I've learned a lot about what I want my future to look like and how I'm going to make it happen.

I wanted (and still do) to make art in all forms. Be creative. Invest in myself. Have the freedom to pick up and go to a show whenever and wherever I want. When I decided to go to work for myself, I bit off more than I could chew. But I have always dreamed big. I want to do all the things, all at once!

It's a lot to try to build an entire business plan that mixes everything I love and then attempt to execute that vision while being creative, navigating a world that is continuously falling apart, taking my dog on a walk, making three meals a day, washing laundry, battling the never ending cleaning war against my apartment, while also trying to fit in moments where I can just be; enjoy a sunset, make a phone call to my aunt, cuddle my doggo.

Then add the logistics of travel, budgets, playing the social media game, and the one thing I never factored in: grief. And how it would weave its way into every single facet of my life.

All of this is to say: I needed to experience all of the above to understand that maybe I can't do it all, all at once, all the time. Which led me to the realization that I just need to make it simple.

Put simply: I am a filmmaker. A Band Aide. An adventure girl with a suitcase full of cameras and a love of live music that refuses to be reasonable.

MADStarlet Studios is where that simplicity lives. Two documentary films being made in real time, on the road, now with my father's cameras in tow. A small community of people who want to be along for the ride. And a Thursday tour that’s now in full swing.

Clichè or not, I’m in what feels like one of those “full circle” moments. If you’ve got a little curious adventure in you, take a peak at what I've been building.

→ madstarlet.com/the-final-cuts

(And tell me when there is a typeo lol. Proofreading on the road is a bitch!)