EX-SOMETHING CORPORATE WILLIAM TELL RELEASES SOLO ALBUM

William Tell, former guitarist for Something Corporate, has released his first solo album, ‘You Can Hold Me Down’ and although it wasn’t an easy decision to leave the band, he felt the time was right to concentrate on his solo career. Tell, who was born into a gospel family was taught music and guitar at a very early age by his father and after years of developing his songwriting and vocal skills finally has fulfilled his life long dream of putting out a solo album.

We caught up with William Tell to discuss writing and recording ‘You Can Hold Me Down’ and his thoughts on starting and finishing the project on his own.

“Yeah a lot of obstacles, I was kind of making it on my own before the label got involved so some of the songs I was thinking more as demos. I guess I’m lucky because I had a couple of friends and I’ve done this before with other bands and knew people who knew what they were doing and I was really able to get into a situation where the demos turned out to be really nice recordings. So, when the actual deal came along I was able to go back and finish recording a bunch of new songs I was working on at the same time mess with some of the older songs and put them into nice shapes. It was really kind of a mixture of songs recorded at different studios and different places and try to mix them together.”

So does William feel any pressure getting out from the shadows of Something Corporate and starting his solo career?

“The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself in the things I try to take on and try to do. But in doing that it all comes down to me. It’s different when you’re in a band with a lot of different people you can all split and divide into responsibilities where as now, I’m taking all the phone calls and trying to juggle all the things at once. But really I’ve been ridiculously lucky in the people I have working with me. From management to the label people to everyone that’s around me, my PR people, everybody rnaround me has been really incredible. I definitely don’t do it all myself.”

Although this album is without a doubt built around the song writing and vocal melodies of Tell, both Andrew McMahon and Brian Ireland, old friends from Something Corporate, make special guest appearances on the album. Ireland has been helping Tell in the studio playing drum tracks since the begin stages and keyboardist Andrew McMahon, now of Jack’s Mannequin performs with Tell on the song ‘Fairfax.’ We also talked with Tell about how nice it was to be playing with his old friend Andrew McMahon once again, who had to take a few years off of his career as he battled to over come Leukemia.

“It was rad. Getting to work with him again in the studio is really cool because it’s been a while since we’ve done that. The last record that we worked on together was Something Corporate’s last record. And after that we toured for a long time and then I left. So really it’s been a long, long time since he and I were in the studio together. He would come down and spend the day working and it was awesome. Last night he and I played a little show together and practiced a little bit together and he’s going to come up and play with me tonight. It’s cool, it’s cool being on stage with him again. It’s always nice and it’s always a nice feeling ‘to say Yeah that always worked’ and there’s a reason for it.”

Look for William Tell to announce more tour dates in the very near future as he will be performing on the 2007 Virgin Music College Mega Tour hitting a multitude of colleges around the US.