About Us

Although the Collin Derrick Band calls South Carolina home, there is nothing southern about their rock. With influences including Ben Folds, Muse and Radiohead, they combine unorthodox song writing with heavy piano rock and melodic guitar hooks. "Roller Coaster", the first song on their debut album, has been featured on WXRY Unsigned. Playing venues like New Brookland Tavern (Columbia, SC), Tasty World (Athens, GA), Ground Zero (Spartanburg, SC) and several upstate South Carolina stages as well their energetic presence engages the audience, making their shows a true musical experience.

September 6th, 2007 - Pictures, Video, and Jamie

Thanks to a lot of awesome friends (no names ... Lori and Albert) we have a bunch of great pics from our spree of shows which are now available for your viewing pleasure. Just head over to our media page and scroll down to the bottom! Do you have pics from one of our shows that you'd like to share? Send us an email! We also have some new video which you should go check out at our YouTube page. And last, but not least, we have added another member: Jamie Heiting on electric guitar. Josh will still be playing with us, but he is busy planning his upcoming wedding and will not be at every gig.

 

July 24th, 2007 - Free Live EP available now!

We've had a bunch of great shows in the past couple of months and on the 17th we recorded a live EP at Tasty World in Athens, GA. It's available to everyone for free and currently downloadable at both myspace.com/collinderrick and virb.com/collinderrick. It includes three new songs and a rocking album track. Our YouTube page went live this past week as well and has some cool videos of our show at New Brookland Tavern in Columbia, SC. But it doesn't stop there! We have new merch, stickers to be precise, which are are available for $1 at each of our shows. We hope to have them available for purchase online soon. Please make sure you download the new EP (for free), watch our videos, and put our Anderson show on your calendar. See you on the 17th!

 

May 8th, 2007 - Update
Many good things have been happening recently. We had our first full rehearsal with all of our studly members in April to prepare for the new shows that you see so attractively displayed to your left ...er, right. We have some new material which is taking us in the direction of straight up, slap your granpappy rock. We have a rough cut of one of the new tracks up on our Myspace page, so check it out. In addition to the shows already solidified we have imminent gigs in Clemson, Columbia, and Georgia so keep checking back for new dates.