meet aaron turner :
Born and raised in Echo Isle, Aaron didn’t have much to his name for the first portion of his life. His father had left before he was even born and his mother was always bouncing from relationship to relationship, barely paying any attention to her oldest child. But Aaron kept himself too busy to really care. From a young age he’d been involved in the music scene of his school - playing guitar and singing in nearly every showcase or production the elementary and middle schools put on.
It wasn’t until his freshman year of high school that he actually became serious about doing something outside of school, though. A few of the older kids a few years above him invited him to be their new lead singer of their garage band, Scare Tactics, and while he hesitated at first, eventually he agreed once they told him how much he’d be making per gig they booked. All they ever played was a bunch of covers, but they had a few standing regular weekly gigs at some of the bars and rundown clubs around the island and on the mainland.
While he had originally only joined for the sake of the pay, Aaron turned out to love the band and stuck with them until he was sixteen. They slowly started working on their own original songs, even if they didn’t really play them anywhere. He would have continued down the road, seeing what they could do and where the band could take him - but his music teacher at school had convinced him to send in an audition tape for an at the time untitled potential project. Aaron hadn’t expected it to go anywhere, mostly did it just to get his teacher off of his back, but then before he knew it he was being flown out to LA for the in person rounds of auditions.
The project turned out to be a search for the last member of an upcoming boyband, 4*TOWN. It seemed kind of silly to Aaron that they would be looking for a fifth member of a band that pretty much advertised themselves as a quartet, but once he got to the stage of meeting the boys and hearing the demos they’d already recorded he got it. Something was missing from the group, it was obvious. And somehow, it turned out that the missing piece was him.
The decision to leave Echo Isle wasn’t one he made lightly. He had friends and family, his band and everything he’d ever known there. But the chance of making it big, of being able to fully support his siblings and mother was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up on. So he took the offer to join the band and moved to LA at the age of seventeen.
The boys ended up becoming some of his best friends and he loved his time in the band. They stayed together for five years, coming out with an EP each year of their time together until their contract ended when Aaron was twenty-one. It was a mutual decision to bring 4*TOWN to an end, each of the boys ready to move on to something new. Or in Aaron’s case, return to something he’d had before.
With 4*TOWN over, Aaron had debated for a month or so on going solo before the idea struck him. Being on a stage by himself was never something he had much interest in, plus he knew he’d be expected to put out the same type of music the band had always performed - even though it was never really his favorite genre. What he really loved was rock and punk. And with that realization, he knew what he wanted.
Calling up his old band had been far easier than he thought it’d be, everyone being willing to give it another go - this time on a bigger scale. It took about a year for them to get everything in line and the whole band moved out to LA and then another year after that to create their first album - but once they did they were an instant hit in the rock world.
Scare Tactics has released three albums and done a tour for each one. They just finished their latest tour at the end of September 2024. Normally they would have been working on their next album as they toured, but this go around they had all fallen in a bit of a slump. In hopes of getting out of it, they all decided to return to their hometown on Echo Isle now that the borders were reopened, to try to spark some new inspiration and also just get away from the hustle and bustle of LA life.
4*TOWN discography can be found HERE.
Scare Tactics discography can be found HERE.
When he was younger, still living on the island, he had befriended a lot of people, especially in the music department at school. That included one Liv Rooney, who he later reconnected with when they were both living out in LA. They were quickly fast friends and it was clear that they each felt something more and deeper for each other - but under his first label with 4*TOWN, Aaron had been strongly discouraged from being in any kind of relationship. It was always thought to be best for as many of the boys to remain single and seemingly potentially obtainable to the fans.
Once the band broke up though, the two began officially dating and they were together for five years before Liv put an end to things. Rumors had always flown around that either of them were potentially cheating on each other with any and all friends of the opposite sex they each had - but it wasn’t until Poppy Can was officially single for the first time in her entire career that things really got insane. Aaron had been friends with Poppy since the start of his career, never anything more, but practically every tabloid and gossip rag decided to spin the story differently. Claims were being made that the two had actually been together all this time, others saying they’d decided now to get together after years of harboring secret feelings for each other, or whatever bullshit they could come up with to sell papers and get clicks. None of it was true, but well… a lot of it sounded very convincing. And when Aaron refused to stop hanging out with Poppy, it put a tension on his relationship with Liv until she eventually called it quits and up and left to return to Echo Isle.
For all Aaron had wanted to follow after her, to fix things and make her see how ridiculous the whole situation was - he was booked on tour. And by the time it was over, the borders were closed and he had no way of getting back into the isle.
He has not publicly dated anyone sense, nor has he privately dated anyone for that matter. He’s had hook ups and flings, but nothing serious by any means. He is very much still hung up on Liv and broken over their end, even though it was two years ago. A part of why he wanted to return to Echo now was to either see if there was any way of sparking what they had again or if not, to finally get the closure that he needs to really move on.
