Aberdeen City Started Things Off Around 10pm Inside The Axis

Aberdeen City started things off around 10PM inside the Axis, a CBGB-esqe club that’s easily dwarfed by the maximum capacity of the Avalon, which is next door, and host of the bigger names of the night.

The Group initially came off as a “Creep”-era Radiohead knockoff with a live show that was good for killing time before the bill’s bigger acts went on. However, things picked up, and they proved to the crowd, and their critics, that they are more than a group of Radiohead-wannabes.

The spontaneous live antics of the group showed they had much more to offer than bland 90’s radio re-runs. With dynamic energy that found a lead guitarist pitching water bottles to the drummer, that were then hit into the crowd, it is fair to presume that Aberdeen City is a band whose live experience will change night to night, venue by venue. They’re an act whose notoriety still leaves something to be desired, but what they will grow to be in time has yet to be decided.

Getting stiffed with closing duties, the Secret Machines didn’t begin playing to a far-from-packed crowd at the Avalon until close to 1AM. Prior to the show, we caught up with Benjamin Curtis of the Secret Machines. When asked about what kind of show we should expect he said one with a “beginning, middle, and an end.” Keeping his word, the Machines started things off with the first track on their second studio album Ten silver Drops called “Alone, Jealous, and Stoned.”