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    <title>The Fire Tonight (formerly the Collin Derrick Band)</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[<em>"...The Fire Tonight elaborate heavily on their brit pop influence, shaking things up from song to song with sounds that wind their way from high energy arena rock bombast to pensive tales of self-destruction where every note rings with purpose." </em>
 - Columbia City Paper

<em>"...emotional lyrics and polished sound..."</em>
 - Anderson Independent

The Fire Tonight began as a group of friends playing music, but it became readily apparent that the collaboration could be much more. While the original album by lead singer Collin Derrick was very much an indie solo project, the band's sound has grown to encompass the arena rock stylings of guitarist Jamie Heiting, and the powerfully untraditional drumming of Stephen Russ. Through this transition Collin Derrick's songwriting and vocals have remained as honest and unorthodox as ever. The combination of backgrounds and influences has produced a desire to craft each and every song in a different way than the last. This drive coupled with an electric live show has propelled the band into a regional act that calls any number of cities home.

For booking info, please  email us at <a href="mailto:thefiretonight@gmail.com">TheFireTonight@gmail.com</a>.

Our Shrines of Dubious Interweb Greatness:
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/collinderrick">MySpace.com/TheFireTonight</a> - Virb's aesthetically challenged older brother.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/collinderrick">YouTube.com/TheFireTonight</a> - get your good music and crazy hamster fix at the same time.
<a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/The-Fire-Tonight/22343048501?ref=s">Become a Fan of ours on Facebook!</a>  We have some secret demos and other goodies here.
<a href="'http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?storeFrontId=143441&url=itms%3A%2F%2Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewAlbum%3FplayListId%3D125305790">You can download Collin's solo album from iTunes</a> or you can buy an oldschool hard copy from <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/collinderrick">CDBaby</a>.]]></description>
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      <title>RSVP for New Years Eve!!...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[RSVP for New Years Eve!! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=219504444920&amp;ref=ts" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=219504444920&amp;ref=ts</a>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pick up the new Treadmill Trackstar today!  Do it.  <a href="http://www.treadmilltrackstar.com" target="_blank">http://www.treadmilltrackstar.com</a>]]></description>
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      <title>New show announced in West Columbia, SC at New Brookland Tavern on December...</title>
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      <title>Its monday, do you know where your kids are?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Its monday, do you know where your kids are?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wrapping up mixing <a href="http://twitter.com/therestoration" target="_blank">@therestoration</a> today, then things return to normal in The Fire Tonight land!]]></description>
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      <title>Great show tonight @allisonweiss!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Great show tonight <a href="http://twitter.com/allisonweiss" target="_blank">@allisonweiss</a>!]]></description>
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      <title>Check out what our drummer thought the albums of the decade were!...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Check out what our drummer thought the albums of the decade were! <a href="http://bit.ly/286FQu" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/286FQu</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:44:23 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Is seeing your CD in the used section a sign that you've made it?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Is seeing your CD in the used section a sign that you&#039;ve made it?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:26:09 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Our album, as reviewed by an eighth grader - http://bit.ly/3oVdR0</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Free Times Best of Columbia 2009 best local album - &quot;NO ONE IS FINE&quot; BY THE FIRE TONIGHT!! Thanks for voting!!!!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[we dressed as three eighties rockers and one ghost. so much for that communication thing.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Oh and ari hest is a very cool guy. and <a href="http://twitter.com/thestellasband" target="_blank">@thestellasband</a> is dressed in drag!]]></description>
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      <title>Rocking the Evening Muse in Charlotte TONIGHT!!  10pm, $6, rock, rock, rock</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rocking the Evening Muse in Charlotte TONIGHT!!  10pm, $6, rock, rock, rock]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Totally getting ready to rock out Charlotte Friday night with <a href="http://twitter.com/thestellasband" target="_blank">@thestellasband</a>.  Getting our costumes together and whatnot!]]></description>
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      <title>just wrote the set list for Friday and its gonna rock your face!!!!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[just wrote the set list for Friday and its gonna rock your face!!!!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:54:47 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Gotta love in progress song titles: Bendsian, The Funking Song, Women are...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gotta love in progress song titles: Bendsian, The Funking Song, Women are the Devil, New Song #2, just a few of the classics in progress.]]></description>
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      <title>Dear reviewers, when you call our album a pop album we know you didn't...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dear reviewers, when you call our album a pop album we know you didn&#039;t listen to all of it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:59:13 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[EP Update!!  We have 7 potential EP songs happening right now, this one is going to have a lot different feel than the last one.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[That was awful grammar, by the way.  We play the Evening Muse in Charlotte on the 30th!!]]></description>
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