Something Corporate, the wildly popular pop punk piano band is back in a big way, selling out major venues and making their way across America – but only playing shows on the weekends.
After finding success in the early aughts, the Orange County-based group – also known as SoCo – shocked fans when they went on hiatus in 2005.
During the two-decade long hiatus, lead singer and pianist Andrew McMahon formed Jack’s Mannequin and later The Wilderness, while guitarist William Tell released a solo album before attending law school at USC and marrying Laguna Beach star Lauren Conrad.
Nostalgic millennials were overjoyed to see the band reunite on the aptly named Out of Office tour, which sold out immediately.
To find out what it was like hitting the road again – and how the band actually got time off (two members are quite literally something corporate as they’re lawyers now), Andrew and Will stopped by the DailyMail.com studio to talk millennial nostalgia, their emotional reunion, and how their families are part of the tour these days.
Something Corporate, the wildly popular pop punk-era piano band who released Leaving Through the Window in 2002 followed by North in 2003, is back in a big way
The Orange County-based Drive-Thru Records band shocked their devoted fans when they went on an extended hiatus in 2005
A reunion 20 years in the making
‘I turn around and it feels like this was just last year that we were all doing this,’ Will told DailyMail.com. ‘Or it feels like it was 40 years ago. I vacillate back and forth between these two feelings.’
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The band got back together for an impromptu show for Andrew’s 40th birthday when he invited them to come play a few songs together.
Andrew forgot how ‘magical’ it was playing with the friends he grew up with, especially since they ‘learned how to play in bands together,’ calling the night ‘bliss.’
‘Now we’re older and we come in with a different sensibility, but then it also just feels like yesterday,’ Will admitted.
‘There was something in the air even from the time we started rehearsing for those few songs, it just felt inevitable.’
‘It just felt like there was momentum between us all,’ Will added, calling the impromptu reunion ‘kismet,’ which led to a longer tour that kicked off this June in New York City.
Unlike their tour dates back in their teens and early 20s, this go-around has been a family affair, with Andrew’s daughter Cecilia dancing in the wings (and occasionally onstage), and Will bringing his young sons out a bit later. Bassist Kevin ‘Clutch’ Page also has his kids on the road.
‘It’s a weird experience and awesome to see people who are like family to you, seeing their progeny show up and hang out and and integrate with into the whole unit,’ Will said.
‘I turn around and it feels like this was just last year that we were all doing this,’ Will told DailyMail.com. ‘Or it feels like it was 40 years ago’
Andrew was booked and busy touring with his act the Wilderness (and appearing in Andy Cohen’s clubhouse, above) so the members of SoCo found a hack
Tour prep required a little help from ‘Robot Andrew’
