Lewsberg

19 Jun 2024

Future Yard CIC

Future Yard are thrilled to hosting the hypnotic, talky post-punk sounds of Lewsberg on the Future Yard stage on Wednesday 19th June 2024.

Named after writer and fellow Rotterdammer Robert Loesberg, famous for his dangerous novel Enige Defecten from 1974, which serves as one of the band’s main sources of inspiration: the counterculture and big-city cynicism of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet there is also a softer side to Lewsberg’s music and lyrics. On their fourth and most recent album ‘Out And About’, this side is more present than ever. Rudimentary pop and rock songs are deliberately kept bare, only occasionally embellished with a violin or organ part. In the lyrics, the tendency towards existentialism and black humour is nuanced with an almost naïve openness and engagement.