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William Beckett Full Name: William Eugene Beckett Jr.
Date of Birth: February 11, 1985
Hometown: Libertyville, Illinois
TAI Position: Lead singer & Lyricist
- He played the leader of the Dandies in Fall Out Boy's video "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me"
- Used to wear a bandana on his left knee.
- A lot of times on Warped Tour, he was seen performing barefoot.
- Has done guest vocals on Cute Is What We Aim For's song "There's A Class For This", Fall Out Boy's "Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year", Gym Class Heroes' "7 Weeks", and Cobra Starship's "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)".
- Before The Academy Is..., William had a solo-project called Remember Maine.
- Also plays the tambourine and guitar besides singing and drumming.
- Wear's size 10/10.5 in shoes.
- His height is 6'3".
- He has two pugs named Vito and Millie.

Mike Carden Name: Michael Stephen Carden
Date of Birth: December 3rd, 1984
Hometown: Schaumburg, Illinois
TAI Position: Guitar
- He smokes Marlboro Light cigarettes.
- He was a lifeguard and is fond of waterslides.
- He likes sushi.
- He once turned down an offer to be in Fall Out Boy. - He has green eyes.
- He was on the chess team in highschool.
- He and Willliam Beckett used to be in rival bands in the Chicago scene.
- Fall Out Boy opened for a band Mike was in at Knights of Columbus.
- His height is 5'11".
- He has a pug named Romeo.

Adam Siska Full Name: Adam T. Siska
Date of Birth: January 8th, 1988
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
TAI Position: Bass
- His favorite food is pizza.
- Met William through his older brother
- His nickname is "Sisky Business"
- He loves the Chicago Bulls
- He has a cat named "Baby", and another "Little Girl"
- Formed his first band at age 12 called The Fearless Fabulosos

Michael Guy Chislett Full Name: Michael Guy Chislett
Date of Birth: April 6, 1982
Hometown: Skipton, Victoria, Australia
TAI Position: Guitar
- Michael uses Gretsch guitars and Fender guitars - He replaced Tom Conrad.
- Some of the bands he has taken part in: Able, Paperadio, Limousine, Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonite's, 1969
- He attended Cherrybrook Technology High School, he dropped out in year 10 to spend more time on music.
- In 2003, he moved to London with a band called Paperadio.
- He lived with Butch Walker, then later met TAI at Butch's house.
- He grew up with James, TAI's sound tech.

Andy Mrotek Full Name: Andrew "The Butcher" Bishop Mrotek
Date of Birth: July 4th, 1983
Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
TAI Position: Drums
- He used to be a vegetarian, and got the nickname "The Butcher" because he was a vegetarian while he worked as a butcher.
- He has a twin brother.
- Previously played in a band called Last Place Champs
- Replaced Mike DelPrincipe
- He and fellow band mate, Sisky have a team called "Neon Body Sytle"

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The Academy Is... is a band based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. They were originally known as "The Academy", but added the "Is..." in 2004, to avoid legal complications with other established bands already going under that name. They are signed to record label Decaydance, which is an imprint of the Fueled by Ramen label and have released three full albums, Almost Here, Santi, and their newest album, Fast Times at Barrington High, on 19 August 2008.

The Beginning William Beckett (singer) and guitarist Michael Carden first came together in 2002, but formed the band the following year when they added Adam T. Siska on bass, Adrian LaTrace Jr as a second guitarist and drummer Mike DelPrincipe before heading into the studio and recorded their self-titled debut EP, The Academy (2004), for the Chicago-based label LLR Recordings. LLR Recordings had released Beckett's solo project Remember Maine's debut album The Last Place You Look in 2002. The EP was recorded in Villa Park, IL at The Gallery of Carpet by Producer Brian Zieske. Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy heard it and was so impressed that he convinced his label, Fueled by Ramen, to fly out and see them. The label immediately signed the band. Contrary to popular belief and what has been said in the press, a good portion of the music written on the album has actually been done by LaTrace as he was the lead guitarist and Carden was the rhythm guitarist at the time.

Almost Here In 2004 the band headed to Florida to record their Fueled by Ramen debut Almost Here, produced by James Paul Wisner, who's worked with Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, and Underoath. After recording and a summer tour, the band underwent a lineup change. Tom Conrad, formerly of Chicago local band 5o4plan, replaced LaTrace as their second guitarist/backing vocalist and Andy Mrotek, formerly of Last Place Champs, replaced DelPrincipe as their drummer. Andy Mrotek and Thomas Conrad are listed in the liner notes, but were added to the band after the recording of Almost Here to replace DelPrincipe and LaTrace, respectively. They hit the road hard, touring with Fall Out Boy, Something Corporate, Midtown, Matchbook Romance, Motion City Soundtrack and Armor for Sleep. The album was released on February 8, 2005. During the summer of 2005, the band embarked on their first headlining tour alongside Plain White T's, Days Away and June. As of October 26, 2006, The Academy Is... had announced via the blog on their official website that Tom Conrad and the band have parted ways. Although it provides no reason, Tom later made a post on his website Forevernever.net, of which he says that he never "quit the band", which has led fans to speculation about Tom's departure. Michael Guy Chislett joined the band to replace Tom on Guitar and Gerson R with the Les Paul resemblance to that of Michael Guy Chislett.

Santi Whilst featured on the 2006 Warped Tour, they began the process of writing songs for their second release, once finished, the band moved to finishing the writing process and eventually towards stepping into the recording studio. They flew to Los Angeles to record their record with Butch Walker. As of December 23, 2006, the band had officially finished the recording process. The album, entitled Santi, was released April 3, 2007 on Fueled By Ramen.[2] The release of this album is listed on Blender's 25 reasons to love 2007.[3] On January 26, 2007 a sample of "LAX to O'Hare" was released on the bands Absolute Punk profile. The band went on to release "We've Got A Big Mess On Our Hands" as the albums first single, before releasing the album "Santi" on April 2, 2007. Fall Out Boy, +44, Cobra Starship, and Paul Wall joined the band on the 2007 Honda Civic Tour, going onto their final Santi tour titled "The Sleeping With Giants" tour in Milwaukee on September 5, 2007 with support by The Rocket Summer, Armor for Sleep and Sherwood. The tour ended on November 24, 2007 in Chicago.

Fast Times At Barrington High The band's third studio album, Fast Times at Barrington High, was released on August 19th, 2008 through Fueled by Ramen. The first single, "About a Girl", was added to the band's MySpace page on July 15, 2008 and was subsequently made available from various download sites. On August 25, 2008 "About a Girl" was played on The Hills (season 4, episode 2).

TAI TV TAITV stands for The Academy Is... TV. It is a video podcast created by the band. The band made TAITV so that the fans could become more involved with what goes on backstage and in the tour bus, etc. TAITV episodes are now available on the iTunes podcasts. New TAITV can be seen every Sunday night at 9/8c at The Academy Is website. There are currently over 65 episodes of TAITV (excluding Season "One") . Guy Ripley, played by Ryland Blackinton (of Cobra Starship) has his own show on TAITV called "Guy Ripley's True Things". The third season of TAITV premiered June 1, 2008. The TAI TV episodes are made by a good friend of the band, known as Jack the Camera Guy. Jack has appeared in many episodes as cameos, does all the voice overs, writes the episodes, edits, and shoots each episode. He tours with the band and takes breaks with Sisky Business mostly, seeing as they live close together in the suburbs of Chicago.

Influences The band has cited influences from many Alternative Rock and Rock acts such as The Smashing Pumpkins, 5o4plan, U2, Pink Floyd, Weezer, Death Cab For Cutie, Lifetime, The Audition, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Eat World, Cursive and even labelmates Fall Out Boy.

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