There's something that goes a little deeper than the usually transaction relationship of "audience" and "band" when it comes to the ties between Machine Girl and Orlando.

This is a band that has organically gone from playing Uncle Lou’s (it’s true!) to Stonewall to, this week, the Beacham.

“Obsession is a strong word,” says Matt Stephenson, Machine Girl’s founder and creative force. He prefers “fixation” as a descriptor for the way he’s steered his post-industrial, post-hardcore, ...