March is a great month to start gigs and festival season after winter slumber and what better way to celebrate than our hometown boys´Bakterije 20th birthday and record number four release party.

Prostor was nicely full on  a Saturday evening with people all over Croatia attending this gig in our northern parts of country. People from Zadar, Zagreb, Varaždin, Koprivnica, Slovenia and many other places came because there were for awesome gigs on tonight´s line-up.

First one who started the party were MOTORNO ULJE, the heroes from our hometown dating back 20 years ago reforming just for this gig after playing their last gig approximately 6 years ago. Motorno Ulje play oi/streetpunk with lyrics about booze, drinking and then again some more booze. It was really nice to see all the young kids singing, pogoing and dancing to their songs, jumping on stage and singing along with singer Lazar. Motorno Ulje played 9 or 10 of their biggest hits like Radnički sendvič, Zadnja litra, Donesi dvije pive, Razbij staklo…and about 45  minutes passed quickly having much fun.

After the quick stage makeover, it was time for the guests from Zagreb, FNC DIVERZANT to step on the stage. This is another legendary punk band who played in our hometown first back in 1996.and I still remember that gig with a smile on my face. Now, 23  years later, the guys are finally releasing their new album soon and they played I think two new songs in their set tonight which sound great. I can´t wait for the new record to come out. Otherwise their set was old school material like Toga dana, Slobodan, Blizu sunca, Biba, Verbalni Delikt cover Stari Panksi and all the other kids from when we were kids. The people were singing along, dancing, moshing and the atmosphere was great during FNC Diverzant˙s 45 minute long set.

Unfortunately, or luckily, when you go to gigs like this, you meet a lot of people you don´t see very often, so you talk a bit here, a bit there and so I missed almost whole set of guests from Zadar, another old school streetpunk band ALERGIJA. I came back in like two or three songs prior to the end of their set, so I didn´t catch much. I still remember Alergija gigs back in the 90-ies, like Anti Playback legendary tour and stuff, but nowadays the incarnation of the band sounds awesome. I caught that Cock Sparrer cover Pijemo and two more songs before, but the people had fun, the atmosphere during their set was hot and great.

Finally, it was time for BAKTERIJE to enter the stage. The boys are about to release their new, fourth record and judging by what I heard at the gigs and online singles, the record is going to be a blast. Without too much talk, the first half of the set was made of new material with some oldie but goldie thrown in for good measure. It was nice when old vocalist Mario sang with the band couple of songs as a guest. There was dancing, singing, smiling and I did not see one face in the crowd that was not happy with the gig. That means another superb gig night in Prostor.