Single Review: The Smile (orig.edit) by Lewsberg (2018) (Self Released)

Arie van Vliet and his Rotterdam based four piece Lewsberg have been the subject of much gushing love from janglepophub over the last year. especially in relation to their eponymous, self released debut album that we reviewed earlier in the year here.

Album Review - Lewsberg by Lewsberg (2018) (Self Released)

I have limited manual dexterity. In fact copulating baboons are usually considered to be less sausage-fingered than me. Occasionally in moments that may or may not involve alcohol, I am convinced that the long rectangular google typing box, goes all la bouche and mouths 'now what you absolute muppet' at me, as I affront it with my 97th typographical gerrorb (you see!) of the day.

Interview - Arie van Vliet of Lewsberg

Regular readers of the Janglepophub blog and our various social media sites, may well remember the embarrassing spectacle of this middle aged Editor waxing lyrical and becoming acutely fanboy about 2017's The Downer EP from Rotterdam band Lewsberg (see review HERE).

After hunting them down via the world reducing wonders of social media I was delighted to be granted an interview with the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Arie Van Vliet, who talks 'soggy supergroups', Rotterdam's appeal to hipsters. our last visiting rights to the Vicar and his wife in the upcoming Vicars Cross Pt 2, abstract views of emotions and the will to avoid the 'charming Rotterdammers' tag.

EP Review - The Downer (EP) by Lewsberg (2017) (Self Released)

Lewsberg are a band from the commercial Port Town of Rotterdam in the Netheralnds which is rapidly gaining something of a reputation, due to its underground indie music scene, as being the Dutch equivalent of the UK's Sheffield, Manchester or Liverpool...not the country's biggest town but possibly the 'coolest' for all those types that find capital cities so passe.