Lovebugs is a rock band from Switzerland. They are platinum selling artists… Read Full Bio ↴Lovebugs is a rock band from Switzerland. They are platinum selling artists in their home country and have three number one records under their belt.
Their official biography reads as follows: Our story begins – as many of these stories do – with a TDK 60 minute cassette. It's back in 1992 and Kurt Cobain with Smells Like Teen Spirit is playing himself into the nirvana of rock'n'roll and hitting us in the gut. Wow! At roughly the same time, Adrian packs in his drummer job with The Bash — freeing his hands to do the old Fender Strat thing and, in fact, record on to that TDK 60. He calls his one-man band "Lovebugs", enters the cassette for a Band Contest in Basle ... and ends up being invited to take part in the final round.
So he finds Sebastian on bass and Julie on drums – more for their charming personalities than for instrumental virtuosity. And then it all happens pretty dammed quick. First gig, the final, victory, thank you!
Adrian and Sebastian then record their first album Fluff in all of five days in league with 17-year-old temp drummer Simon who has been a permanent fixture since then, irreplaceable actually, because not only is he an amazing drummer but also an amazing cook. We play a few gigs and Adrian wants to pack it in again. Making music is OK, he says, but being the frontman is a pain. Well, we persuade him to stay on and, before long, we have played countless gigs in small clubs. And, between all that, recorded our second album: Tart.
The third album appears in 1996: Lovebugs. Recorded in London, produced by George Shilling and Tony Harris. We storm the Top 40 and our single Fantastic is what you might call our minor breakthrough on the Swiss music wallpaper scene. We sign major recording contacts in Germany, feel pretty fantastic, immortal at least. Just the right mood for getting on to the TourBus for a few months.
Thomas also gets on: live, we need extra guitar; he needs a good band. And the tours go on — with Marc Owen, Republica, Vivid and Ocean Color Scene. We become addicted to life on tour. We hang on to Thomas because, apart from making the right noises with the guitar, he's cool with studio buttons and, in the morning, he looks so grotty.
In 1999, BMG/RCA prescribe us a recording producer who – from the very start – we don't hit it off with. The proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. After a really vicious battle with the record company (all that small-print crap) we record an album under the name of The Symbol. No, not really, we sign a deal with Warner Music Switzerland and, at long last, in 2000, bring out Transatlantic Flight. All that turbulence seems to have paid off. The album sells in 13 countries and represents now our ultimate breakthrough. The concerts are sold out. We shoot a video in LA and give loads of interviews from Moscow through Niederbipp to Helsinki …
While Sebastian publishes his glam rock project Fucking Beautiful, we work on our fifth studio album Awaydays. Wanting to go new places, we record the album in the rehearsal room (with Thomas as producer) and bring in a string orchestra. Adrian starts to think of packing it in again but eventually gives up smoking instead. At about the same time, Awaydays gets to the number one spot in the Swiss charts and Sebastian announces his departure from the band. We play one last tour with him and wonder about how things should continue.
Come autumn 2002, we retreat to the heel of the Italian boot – Apulia – to work on 13 Songs With A View. There are now five of us and we're searching for a new Lovebugs sound. Bass player Florian is more than a mere substitute for emigrant Sebastian: he brings a new earthy edge to the band and raises the average IQ by 35%. The same tidal wave also dumps Stefan on board MS Lovebugs. In an official capacity, that is. For almost three years, he's been pounding away on the keyboards for us — both on stage and in the studio. 13 Songs With A View is, in a word, a bitch, and gives us a really hard time. Yup, the search for our joint roots is difficult, taking 13 long months in the studio. An eternal labyrinth. But also a welding torch for the new line-up. The result is rawer and harder than previous albums. A true milestone, we reckon. Whereas the Swiss radio stations reckon that our sound is too noisy. TV gets cold feet as well and even drops us from a programme at literally the last second. They are worried that our music might hit the viewers in the gut (hmm, sounds familiar). Whatever. A short time later, to kick off our tour, we play Letzigrund Stadium with the legendary Stones to a crowd of 40,000 before, at long last, setting off on an extended club and festival tour again.
December 2003. We've done some 1,000 gigs (I think) and recorded seven albums. Tired? No way! But where can we now sail to without going round in circles? One thing is clear: we need a producer who will accompany us, give us feedback and be in on the songs as they emerge so that we don't drift into studio quicksands again. Someone who can stand up to the Lovebugs steamroller. Adrian has the shocking idea of having a go with that swine Chris von Rohr. In fact, the chemistry works at the very first meeting and soon we have a veritable swimming pool full of creativity — not to mention a genuine friendship.
Together we work on the eighth CD. It's to be an unplugged album, recorded live and featuring the best from 11 years of Lovebugs. Old hits are re-arranged, stripped down to the bare essentials. We want it to be intimate and direct. After nine months of preparation, we perform Naked (!) on stage in Basle ... and, well, it's one of our best concerts ever. Included on the album version are five new songs, some really moving moments and acres of goose pimples.
For six months or so, the subsequent Naked Tour takes us though old theatre prosceniums and cinema halls. Backed by mood and guest musicians, we play unplugged into the summer. It's during the festival season of 2005 that – in parallel and in secret – we start plugging our cables in at the rehearsal room again. We hunger for electricity and sounds but first Adrian has to have on operation on his respiratory system while the rest of us send postcards from our holiday resorts. Each taking a creative breather, so to speak.
In autumn 2005 – by which time we're up to our knees in new material – a Taiwanese record company calls up suddenly and invites us to hold a series of interviews and concerts in Asia. We leave the freshly served Creative Soup on the counter and fly "naked" to the land of the permanent sushi enthusiasts where we (a) score something of a success and (b) get to know something about chopsticks, isolation and sleeping tablets. Then, in the middle of a snowstorm and an infinitely long winter, we eventually realise where we are going and who we wish to take along with us. Things are going to be epic and huge and also deep enough to drown in, a unified whole indeed. So, after a three-year absence from the studio, In Every Waking Moment will not be a stroll through the park, more like an intense midnight ramble J
To read the map and shine the torch, we hire Roman Camenzind. The man who never sleeps and who always has a good idea just when one is needed.
In February and March of 2006, we record In Every Waking Moment at locomotive speed and, only one week after Switzerland gets kicked out of the last 16 of the Football World Cup, a Lovebugs CD soars to Number One on the Swiss album charts … again.
Discography
IN EVERY WAKING MOMENT (2006)
NAKED (2005)
13 SONGS WITH A VIEW (2003)
AWAYDAYS (2001)
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT (2000)
LIVE VIA SATELLITE (1999)
LOVEBUGS intl. version (1998)
LOVEBUGS (1996)
TART (1995)
FLUFF (1994)
Group Members
Adrian Sieber: vocals, guitar
Thomas Rechberger: guitar, vocals
Stefan Wagner: piano, synthesizers, vocals
Florian Senn: bass
Simon Ramseier: drums
Website
http://www.lovebugs.com
Their official biography reads as follows: Our story begins – as many of these stories do – with a TDK 60 minute cassette. It's back in 1992 and Kurt Cobain with Smells Like Teen Spirit is playing himself into the nirvana of rock'n'roll and hitting us in the gut. Wow! At roughly the same time, Adrian packs in his drummer job with The Bash — freeing his hands to do the old Fender Strat thing and, in fact, record on to that TDK 60. He calls his one-man band "Lovebugs", enters the cassette for a Band Contest in Basle ... and ends up being invited to take part in the final round.
So he finds Sebastian on bass and Julie on drums – more for their charming personalities than for instrumental virtuosity. And then it all happens pretty dammed quick. First gig, the final, victory, thank you!
Adrian and Sebastian then record their first album Fluff in all of five days in league with 17-year-old temp drummer Simon who has been a permanent fixture since then, irreplaceable actually, because not only is he an amazing drummer but also an amazing cook. We play a few gigs and Adrian wants to pack it in again. Making music is OK, he says, but being the frontman is a pain. Well, we persuade him to stay on and, before long, we have played countless gigs in small clubs. And, between all that, recorded our second album: Tart.
The third album appears in 1996: Lovebugs. Recorded in London, produced by George Shilling and Tony Harris. We storm the Top 40 and our single Fantastic is what you might call our minor breakthrough on the Swiss music wallpaper scene. We sign major recording contacts in Germany, feel pretty fantastic, immortal at least. Just the right mood for getting on to the TourBus for a few months.
Thomas also gets on: live, we need extra guitar; he needs a good band. And the tours go on — with Marc Owen, Republica, Vivid and Ocean Color Scene. We become addicted to life on tour. We hang on to Thomas because, apart from making the right noises with the guitar, he's cool with studio buttons and, in the morning, he looks so grotty.
In 1999, BMG/RCA prescribe us a recording producer who – from the very start – we don't hit it off with. The proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. After a really vicious battle with the record company (all that small-print crap) we record an album under the name of The Symbol. No, not really, we sign a deal with Warner Music Switzerland and, at long last, in 2000, bring out Transatlantic Flight. All that turbulence seems to have paid off. The album sells in 13 countries and represents now our ultimate breakthrough. The concerts are sold out. We shoot a video in LA and give loads of interviews from Moscow through Niederbipp to Helsinki …
While Sebastian publishes his glam rock project Fucking Beautiful, we work on our fifth studio album Awaydays. Wanting to go new places, we record the album in the rehearsal room (with Thomas as producer) and bring in a string orchestra. Adrian starts to think of packing it in again but eventually gives up smoking instead. At about the same time, Awaydays gets to the number one spot in the Swiss charts and Sebastian announces his departure from the band. We play one last tour with him and wonder about how things should continue.
Come autumn 2002, we retreat to the heel of the Italian boot – Apulia – to work on 13 Songs With A View. There are now five of us and we're searching for a new Lovebugs sound. Bass player Florian is more than a mere substitute for emigrant Sebastian: he brings a new earthy edge to the band and raises the average IQ by 35%. The same tidal wave also dumps Stefan on board MS Lovebugs. In an official capacity, that is. For almost three years, he's been pounding away on the keyboards for us — both on stage and in the studio. 13 Songs With A View is, in a word, a bitch, and gives us a really hard time. Yup, the search for our joint roots is difficult, taking 13 long months in the studio. An eternal labyrinth. But also a welding torch for the new line-up. The result is rawer and harder than previous albums. A true milestone, we reckon. Whereas the Swiss radio stations reckon that our sound is too noisy. TV gets cold feet as well and even drops us from a programme at literally the last second. They are worried that our music might hit the viewers in the gut (hmm, sounds familiar). Whatever. A short time later, to kick off our tour, we play Letzigrund Stadium with the legendary Stones to a crowd of 40,000 before, at long last, setting off on an extended club and festival tour again.
December 2003. We've done some 1,000 gigs (I think) and recorded seven albums. Tired? No way! But where can we now sail to without going round in circles? One thing is clear: we need a producer who will accompany us, give us feedback and be in on the songs as they emerge so that we don't drift into studio quicksands again. Someone who can stand up to the Lovebugs steamroller. Adrian has the shocking idea of having a go with that swine Chris von Rohr. In fact, the chemistry works at the very first meeting and soon we have a veritable swimming pool full of creativity — not to mention a genuine friendship.
Together we work on the eighth CD. It's to be an unplugged album, recorded live and featuring the best from 11 years of Lovebugs. Old hits are re-arranged, stripped down to the bare essentials. We want it to be intimate and direct. After nine months of preparation, we perform Naked (!) on stage in Basle ... and, well, it's one of our best concerts ever. Included on the album version are five new songs, some really moving moments and acres of goose pimples.
For six months or so, the subsequent Naked Tour takes us though old theatre prosceniums and cinema halls. Backed by mood and guest musicians, we play unplugged into the summer. It's during the festival season of 2005 that – in parallel and in secret – we start plugging our cables in at the rehearsal room again. We hunger for electricity and sounds but first Adrian has to have on operation on his respiratory system while the rest of us send postcards from our holiday resorts. Each taking a creative breather, so to speak.
In autumn 2005 – by which time we're up to our knees in new material – a Taiwanese record company calls up suddenly and invites us to hold a series of interviews and concerts in Asia. We leave the freshly served Creative Soup on the counter and fly "naked" to the land of the permanent sushi enthusiasts where we (a) score something of a success and (b) get to know something about chopsticks, isolation and sleeping tablets. Then, in the middle of a snowstorm and an infinitely long winter, we eventually realise where we are going and who we wish to take along with us. Things are going to be epic and huge and also deep enough to drown in, a unified whole indeed. So, after a three-year absence from the studio, In Every Waking Moment will not be a stroll through the park, more like an intense midnight ramble J
To read the map and shine the torch, we hire Roman Camenzind. The man who never sleeps and who always has a good idea just when one is needed.
In February and March of 2006, we record In Every Waking Moment at locomotive speed and, only one week after Switzerland gets kicked out of the last 16 of the Football World Cup, a Lovebugs CD soars to Number One on the Swiss album charts … again.
Discography
IN EVERY WAKING MOMENT (2006)
NAKED (2005)
13 SONGS WITH A VIEW (2003)
AWAYDAYS (2001)
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT (2000)
LIVE VIA SATELLITE (1999)
LOVEBUGS intl. version (1998)
LOVEBUGS (1996)
TART (1995)
FLUFF (1994)
Group Members
Adrian Sieber: vocals, guitar
Thomas Rechberger: guitar, vocals
Stefan Wagner: piano, synthesizers, vocals
Florian Senn: bass
Simon Ramseier: drums
Website
http://www.lovebugs.com
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Lovebugs Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Lovebugs:
'72 feat. Shirley Grimes Lovebugs Miscellaneous Blind Dive come down please, come dow…
24 Hour Party People Don't look, don't stare, just disappear Don't wait, don't s…
72 Sing me a song A song about fate A song about hope If…
A Love Like Tides What a beautiful day We swin in deep waters And get lost…
A Wonderful Thing From the darkest hour To the sunniest day We walk…
A.u.t.o.m.a.t.i.c Life I guess I'll be okay A fragile smile, an old clichée Few…
Angel Heart One two one two If I only knew what to do 'cause…
Anticipation She sits alone In her fantasy Her lover she Can never touch …
Automatic Life I guess I'll be okay A fragile smile, an old clichée Few…
Awaydays You never needed anyone You never loved companion Solitary s…
Back to Life Come and open up your window Open up your tiny…
Barbarella Hey barbarella My babe interstellar The universe belongs To …
Beautiful One Moments of surrender, I can't tell what it is You do…
Bellybutton High up there On the way to the train See you looking…
Below Standing on a hill And it's nightime Seeing all the lights…
Bitter Moon I know who you are I know what you need When the…
Blind Dive come down please, come down a while it is a dreamy day…
Borrowed Tune I'm climbin' this ladder My head in the clouds i hope…
Brand New Dream I've got a brand new dream I know in dreams I'll…
Broken Smile I don't know where you're from Or where you go Hey, strang…
Can't Get Used To It My dear friend I see you grow older Without a doubt…
Car Lover She wants to ride a motorbike Her name is anne, I…
Coffee and Cigarettes I got to know I got to know why Whenever you're near I'm…
Collide Collide We can't wait forever My heart is open wide Divide I…
Coma You haven't been crying Crying since you learned to talk You…
Crush Get down, get down on the beat Get down, girl get…
Day Fly These sounds always make me think about you How we played…
Don We've no footprints to follow No trace in the sand No star…
Don't Stop Me Now It's your language of love I try to understand But the who…
Dregs If you feel as a grey sad beetle Got to crawl…
Drown You know I'd rather be rather be Drowned again You wann…
Emily You gonna phone me up again When you've sat too long…
Emma You've got troubles At the place where you work And in the…
Everybody Knows I Love You Tell me, baby When we first got together When you first ca…
Everything Kills Me Falling apart and not falling in love, I'm stumbling as I…
Fantastic I've got a friend who's not really my friend But I…
Filling Up the Hole Well, I'm part of the boom Born into a legoland I don't…
Fingers and Thumbs please hold me now, don't hesitate soon it might be too…
Flavour of the Day Wish it was always summer Summer all year We're outside Unde…
Fluff A woman alone A bottle of 1980 barbara With a pack of…
Free Reeling Out on the freeway We're driving too fast Hang on to our…
Girls In Rock Kim gordon and kelly deal Polly harvey made me feel real Tin…
Good Life Everybody loves To change from time to time Being someone …
Hang On Tell me tell me tell me how you doing 'cause I…
Hard To Find I met a girl With no fingernails And a diamond tooth Oh she…
Holes Well, I'm part of the boom Born into a legoland I don't…
Homegirl Zebras are smokin In fucin cold water We jaunted along the b…
Homesick When I sit down and try to remember What my home…
How Can You Sleep? Please come over again Oh god, it feels a lot like…
I'm Boring This is you Sitting with your head between your knees You'…
If I Ever Was a Stone in Your Shoe You wrap myself 'round your fingers 'round your legs And I d…
If You I wish I could understand Could figure out What makes me f…
Is It Still Over? I'm lying in the dark Somewhere in the park And it could…
Island In The Sky Like the sun You are one You are everything I'm depending…
Jennifer Beals You'll never get to heaven like this Your father used to…
Kind of Insatiable Funny where it started I met you in the cinema I was…
Kitty's Empire All that we are Goes round in circles But still we get…
Land Ho! We're nothing but a ship of fools Basking in our days…
Let Me Fly With You I wake from dreams of you And find that they're all…
Limelight he got a job in a record store where he works…
Listen to the Silence Oh god, I want you Oh god, I want you so…
Little Boy In a little town, in a little street In a little…
Lovebugs Between dancin' legs And stumblin' feet I need you so bad So…
Marigold You're my shiny girl And you've got a lot to manage For…
Marilyn When he was about seventeen He stole a magazine 'dancing que…
Me Astronaut Leave me alone Leave me alone my dear And don't call on…
Music Makes My World Go Round Please don't say, I'm losing you We went so wrong and…
My Loon somehow we are lovers and somehow we are friends somehow w…
Never Get Away I know a boy who wants the world More than anything And…
Never Get You You said 'just take me away from sorrow And it doesn't matte…
Nincompoop Now you look at youself With your cruel eyes And you don't…
Paris There's a place I know in paris It's where I always…
Pop 'til You Drop You're just another superhero On satellite all day Straight …
Psychoday Psychoday With baloons in the trees Like memories in my thou…
Queen of Inbetween I don't feel as if I ever missed you And all…
Rise Up Size Up too high to reach too deep to hide away i pray maybe…
Rock Steady Beat There's too much confusion That's the big headline Too much …
Rock With You Remember when we used to be young Remember the days when…
Ruby Said Ruby said: mister, Look, I've got a sister But nobody knows …
Seaside I only want to sit Alone beside the sea Awake another nigh…
Shake Down You are a rock You keep on rolling Once you get started Y…
She's A Butterfly When I close my eyes I see Her sitting on the…
Shine Never give up on love You got to believe it's true Never…
Slowly Can't you now Pop around Stop me from Spinning around a b…
Slumber I slumber all day long for that It will not make…
Starving Tell me where have you been I was starving the other…
Stupid And Forgettable Uh uh uh Go to hell go to hell Oh i love…
Take me as I am Take me as I am Take me even if the time…
The Aftermoon Do you remember the first time I remember well It was a…
The Highest Heights I climb a tree, so mighty high I see the world…
The Key Seems I’ve been waiting half a life For things to arrive T…
The Morning After The morning after the night before I can't remember anymore …
The Sun In Your Eyes I don't wanna see what you see 'til it's over I…
Tomorrows you can find love find affection you know it's anywhere a…
Transatlantic Flight I get to the airport Around ten to three Then I pass…
Tumbling Down Hey, show me Show me what you've got Don't waste my time …
Under My Skin Saturday night I was looking for trouble Could find no one…
Wall of Sound We have to find a way And the only way is…
When I See You Smile Sometimes I wonder If I'd ever make it through Through thi…
When It Rains It Pours This is such a bitter pill to take I will swallow…
Whirlpool Where do people get their courage That I'll never understand…
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