Yes, after successful day one of the festival, Saturday offered line-up oriented more on hardcore and punk, so it was a perfect early September warm evening when DEAD DOG SUMMER first stepped on stage and played their set. This is the new band in Čakovec, our hometown scene, but members of the band played before in Implicite, Farewell Reason, Corewar, Senata Fox, Motorno Ulje, Youth Against to name just a few, so they are experienced guys in the scene with more than twenty years each of the three members. Dead Dog Summer presented circa half an hour or so of melodic hardcore punk with some emo nineties influences thrown here and there. Beautiful guitar melodies, not so fast song structures and guitarist/vocalist Igor´s voice fits perfectly to the songs with the screams and clean singing. Much more powerful live than studio songs. Welcome back to the scene.

I was eager to witness live the next band who hit the stage, that being ŠIZA from Koprivnica. This is also kinda new band in the scene with one album released, but both guys are playing and have played in many bands. Yes, this band is only two guys. Drummer and bassist/vocalist, but damn, they sound more powerful than five guys on stage in full band. They play a mixture of noise and punk rock with uptempo beats, at times complex song structures and lyrics in Croatian and crowd enjoyed their set very much, delivering tons of power and energy on stage and in front of the stage.

CRASSO DE ODIO were next. Guests from south of Croatia, Zadar are old school street punk/hardcore band. I didn´t hear much about them in a while, so I guess they were not so active in recent period, but no matter, I am glad they are still very active and their set was a mixture of street oi punk with anthemic sing along lyrics and more old school NYHC influences in some songs. I think they repeated one song at the end of the show but people in front of the stage had great time to their hits like Arm 2 Arm, Dio Vas and rest of their setlist. Band had fun on stage and two guitarists add to the hardcore power and energy.

Headliners of the second evening were SIX PACK from Serbia, band that played many times in our hometown in the last twenty or so years. It was nice to see Miki Pack returning to guitar and vocals, not only singing. I think that the band sounds much better and powerful when Miki is also playing guitar, not only singing. When he only sang it sounded and looked a bit weird hehe. But, that is only my humble opinion. They delivered set filled with hits from their 27 year span as a band and I saw them live really lots of times, but this was one of their best sets I have witnessed in ten or so times I watched them play live. Band did not hide their pleasure playing in front of us who sang along, danced and interaction between the band and crowd was fantastic. I must say hats off to the drummer who sings such superb fantastic backing vocals and harmonies that I had goosebumps on my skin through much of their set. Hits like Fabrička greška, Dva minuta straha, Viša sila, Crveni makovi, Delfinov let, Vodite me were all done with singing along by all of the people in the crowd. The band ended their regular set with Poslednja kap but crowd wanted more, so they returned and played two more Ramones cover songs to have fun themselves along with us.

Another edition of 3ff is behind us and I must say, thank you to all of the organizers of this fantastic free entrance festival for doing such amazing job this year. See you all next year.