Suggested tracks are marked in red.
Suggested tracks are marked in red.
Saint Social is the Gulf Coast-based indie rock band of longtime friends Quinn Erwin, Bryan Bourque, and Justin Gollott. Pulling from influences far and wide as much as they have traveled far and wide to be together, Saint Social is the sum of their musical and cultural experiences.
“Yeah, we all live in different cities within a four-hour radius from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle to Birmingham, Alabama,” shares lead singer Quinn Erwin, “and I think that the lengths we’ve gone to be a band shows how much our friendship and this music mean to us.”
Although they are closer in proximity today, it wasn’t long ago that each of the members of Saint Social lived even farther apart, and we’re on different life trajectories before coming together to form this band.
As far as friendship and being connected musically is concerned, Erwin and drummer Bryan Bourque have been playing in different formations for over two decades as far back as high school. Erwin, Bourque, and Bourque’s brother-in-law, guitarist Justin Gollott, having been playing together just shy of that.
While Bourque and Gollott were building careers in 9 to 5 jobs and playing in various bands together in Biloxi, MS where they all grew up, Erwin left a career in education there to pursue music full time in Nashville, TN as a solo artist and the front man of a band called Afterlife Parade. Erwin on his own accord, amassed a worthy resume of recording and touring and found commercial success in licensing with prominent placements in independent films all over the world and TV shows on MTV, Netflix, and Hulu including major commercial spots during Super Bowl LIII, and BMW’s 2020 Light It Up holiday campaign. Throughout his decade long stints of recording and touring, Erwin always found his way back home, however, and managed to play with Bourque and Gollott in some form or fashion.
When Erwin’s musical path led him to move out of Tennessee to Fort Walton Beach, FL, a place that was much closer to his old friends, Bourque and Gollott initially became the band for his solo project. Inevitably, the chemistry of their friendship and the synergy of their playing together overflowed into a new, unified sound.
Giving nods to influences like The Killers, Kings of Leon, The Strokes, Colony House, U2, Coldplay, and Genesis with a dash of pop art, Southern food, the beach, and poetry, they blend their version of rock with an irresistible and alluring live show.
“I think what everyone is going to see (in Saint Social) is the years of us knowing each other like we do, honing in our craft, and bringing out the best in each other within this band,” continues Bourque, “doing our own things over the years as individuals has been good, but something really special happens when we’re together.”
“We like to think that our shows are an immersive experience where our band and the audience are taking our beautiful messy lives and collaborating together in that room…that moment becomes the ‘saint social,’” concludes Gollott.