AIDAN MARTIN  BIO

Aidan Martin has a peculiar command of the guitar: you’d think there is a ghost hand playing those melodious lead guitar parts over mad, intricate strumming.
 
Interested by jazz during a gap-year in Edinburgh, Martin, then 19, became a self-taught guitarist by studying jazz records he’d laid his hands on at the time.  Today, nine years down the road, Martin has not let go of the same intensity with which he had first excelled as a young guitarist. The results have produced one of the country’s most exciting new rock guitarists and vocalists.

The Aidan Martin Band is a blues rock trio comprising of Aidan Martin on guitars, mandolin and vocals, David Georgiades on drums and Benjamin Georgiades on bass guitar. Despite the group’s youth, there are years of experience amongst its members. 

The Aidan Martin Band’s signature track “Tired of the City” spawns a haunting, heavy-layered riff that carries the song throughout. Martin’s vocal and song writing abilities are also deeply affirmed on this track.

There is no hiding behind the influences:  whilst jazz artists like Wes Montgomery and Grant Green are at the heart of his formative years, it is no doubt that Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Rory Gallagher led him away from stifled corporate gigs and down the road to bars with bad lighting and blasting amplifiers.  His keen interest in West-African blues guitarists such as Ali Farka Touré also informs his style; his guitar playing being fluid, never mimicking itself – a result of him being such an uncompromising musician. It is exactly this stubborn approach that allows his songwriting to exist outside of any mould. Consequently, The Aidan Martin Band succeed in producing refreshingly hard-hitting rock ‘n roll. 

So, picture yourself watching a gig, struggling with some stale, warm beer; then picture someone handing you a proper cold one, out of the blue.  This is what The Aidan Martin Band is doing for rock ‘n roll in Msanzi’s Capital.

-- Jannike Bergh


Im a drummer . I make music with my drums . Weapon of choice : Roland TD9K2 with Superior drummer 2 .

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