SPIRITUALIZED tour support / Roy & the Devil's Motorcycle
Roy & the devil's motorcycle
*****Roy and the Devil's Motorcycle / Spiritualized November 2012*******
20 years ago, they came out to set your little world on fire....
The Staehli brother's van is back on the road this November, at the invitation of J Spaceman and co., in full European support of Spiritualized. With their roots in scuzzy blues, gospel and hypnotic psychedelia, I can’t imagine a better pairing. It’s a full circle for the brothers (see below for bio), so come and enjoy the ride.
DATES
Thu 1 UK, Gateshead, The Sage Gateshead
Fri 2 UK, Cambridge, Junction
Sat 3 UK, Leeds, Metropolitan University
Sun 4 UK, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
Mon 5 UK, London, Roundhouse
Tue 6 UK, Brighton, Corn Exchange
Sun 11 Italy, Milan, Magazzini Generali
Tue 13 Switzerland, Lausanne, Les Docks
Wed 14 Switzerland, Zurich, X-TRA
Tue 20 Denmark, Copenhagen, Vega
Wed 21 Sweden, Stockholm, Strand
Thu 22 Norway, Oslo, Rockefeller|
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PRESS
“eerie, ethereal kingsnake swagger” Stu Gibson, BBC Manchester, UK
"RDMC are more like a crazy gang than a band, a soundtrack to the crazy
biker photos of fellow Switzerlander Karlheinz Weinberger. Make sure you ain't
the last guy standing with them at the bar at dawn...see the show.” Sonic
Boom (ex-Spacemen 3)
“They layer their music into a crescendo of distortion or vocal harmonies, sustaining it with trance-like repetition from where they can ease off the gas as and when they please. When it all comes together, the rise and the fall is the closest thing, musically, to the high-inducing adrenaline rush of a speedy motorcycle ride.” Echo Magazine, UK
“They do monstrous thousand yard stare grooves driven by nasty ragged garage blues, whiting out into the stratosphere. It’s utterly captivating.” Kitten Painting, UK
CONTACT: UK: Paul Mayhew roy...@gmail.com / +44 7967 366 465
EUR: Tia Voodoo t...@voodoorhythm.com / +41 31 332 13 19
Bio
Roy and the Devil's Motorcycle are a
four piece from Switzerland. Legendary in underground circles, for the past 20
years, not giving a fuck what anyone else thinks, they've gained obsessive fans
and freaked out untold numbers of unsuspecting gig-goers across the continent.
The three music-obsessed Staehli brothers all picked up guitars and set out on a mission to set their, and our,
little worlds on fire. All this time they’ve been nurturing their raw power
together, giving them a rich psychic force of rock 'n' roll energy.
Once described as the
strangest brothers in rock and roll, they’re a
single organism. Everything they touch has a warped feel to it; the reverb,
distortion and lurching harmonics swirl and boil in the melting pot. Initially,
their influences seem obvious: old, dusty blues records, gospel, dirty garage,
Spacemen 3, the Velvets and Link Wray; but dig deeper and their love of
free-running experimentalists like Lee "Scratch" Perry, Red Krayola
and Godz becomes clear.
After a few singles on the super-underground Record Junkie label, they
unleashed their raging punk-blues FORGOTTEN MILLION SELLERS cult
classic l.p. on the Swiss primitive Voodoo Rhythm label in 1998. Some maturing
(and only a little mellowing) led to the scorched-earth soundtrack BECAUSE OF WOMEN in 2006. By this time they’d already been regularly touring across the
continent, playing with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Sonic Boom/Spectrum, Black Lips, Disappears,
Strange Boys, Psychic TV, and Martin Rev (SUICIDE).
Always self-made to the bone, cutting their own path at their home studio in rural Switzerland, the band released their 3rd album in spring 2012, TELL IT TO THE PEOPLE. With its reaching-out to some pastoral free-jazz energy, and the groovier influence of new drummer Alain Perret-Gentil (the Come ‘n’ Go) it’s a fresh, knife-cut crystalline transmission from the psychedelic world of Roys.
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****EUROPEAN tour with SPIRITUALIZED NOV. 2012*****
Thu 1 UK, Gateshead, The Sage Gateshead
Fri 2 UK, Cambridge, Junction
Sat 3 UK, Leeds, Metropolitan University
Sun 4 UK, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
Mon 5 UK, London, Roundhouse
Tue 6 UK, Brighton, Corn Exchange
Sun 11 Italy, Milan, Magazzini Generali
Tue 13 Switzerland, Lausanne, Les Docks
Wed 14 Switzerland, Zurich, X-TRA
Tue 20 Denmark, Copenhagen, Vega
Wed 21 Sweden, Stockholm, Strand
Thu 22 Norway, Oslo, RockefellerPaul Mayhew // +44 (0)7967 366 465 // roy...@gmail.com
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