Trevor, Get Your Band On:

"Aikon brought last night's show at the Shed to a stupendous finale. You guys were abolutely awesome - I loved Aikon's songs when I heard the band play for the first time and I was so pleased that Aikon came to play last night. It was a cracking set from one amazingly talented set of musicians. Thank you so much Aikon for being there last night - yours is one good band."

Arts in Leicestershire:

"I see dozens of bands per week. Forgive me if I get a little hard to please about bands. Once in a while however I see a band that never fails to excite me, a band that always makes me dance and whose gigs I go to as a real fan rather than just as band whore.

Aikon have never let me down. After half a dozen times of standing in front of these gods of rock and loving every minute of it, I am still eagerly awaiting their next appearance on the Leicester rock stages. Their latest songs have got a little harder, developed a little more of that cutting edge that the earlier, dance-club verging on pop songs lacked. But hey - these guys know how to make progress. They are not, like some bands, stuck in a rut of their own making. They know how to keep up with the times.

You go to an Aikon show, not just to listen to them, but to watch them. This is one performance band, par excellence. Five guys perform rock music. They don't just stand there and play their instruments. From the amazing virtuoso guitar gymnastics of Jack Jordan through to the stick twirling fireworks of drummer Jamie Bennett, Aikon are a visual exhibition of what rock bands should look like on stage.

Dale Taylor, lead vocalist, has made his own unique image:at each show he looks like he's just walked out of a very boring posh do at the Grand Hotel and has come on stage to sing, cool, fired by the music and always with that undone black bow tie that is his hallmark. Backed by vocalist James Dillon, between songs they do a double act with the audience.

Clearly, I love Aikon. They make a gig into a party. What ever position they play in a lineup, they are always the headline band. Join me at the front of the crowd for their next gig - you so won't be disappointed."

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