A band’s obscurity in other parts of the world outside their homeland plays in their favour as a new experience for an untapped audience. With Roy and The Devil’s Motorcycle’s 30 year+ career built throughout the European markets, audiences around North America remain unaware of this group and their respectable body of work. Roy and The Devil’s Motorcycle formed in 1989 in the Swiss town of Thun, between the teenage Stähli brothers (Markus, Matthias, and Christian). The brothers had no experience playing instruments when they decided to form a band, and the powerful sets they witnessed at their local venue from performances by the house music DJs of Detroit, Townes Van Zandt, Tav Falco, and Spaceman 3, pushed the three to try and learn along the way. A band’s obscurity in other parts of th...
