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(gig report)Fakofbolan celebrated their 25th birthday in Unterhund!

Unterhund in Ormož, Slovenia was once again a place to be on a Saturday night.  After recent Slapshot gig which was awesome, it was time for another punk legends to step on the stage of this beautiful club.

Fakofbolan are now legendary punk band from Pula, Croatia. When I was a kid growing up in a time of war and darkness in the early nineties, their songs helped me carry on through all that shit and we were singing those songs during every birthday party bash, we were all we had back then, no internet, only fanzines and letters and record/tape trading.

Now, Fakofbolan are celebrating 25 years in the scene, okay they had a pause of couple of years in between, but who cares? We were in Unterhund when they played there back in 2012.and I still remember that show with a smile on my face, so I was happy to go there again, being near our hometown and it was Saturday night.

When we arrived, there were quite a few people talking, joking and drinking in front of the club and inside. Time quickly passed in good company and the gig started around 11 pm. The band which opened the gig was Orkester Selotejp from Slovenia. Those guys played some version of ska/rock/punk and their set was long, but they just weren´t my cup of tea, but the people had fun and that´s what is most important.

Fakofbolan stepped on stage, checked their instruments and without too many talk started their set, 25 songs for the 25 years of band. Their set was made of songs from all of their releases, the last album from 2014.that doesn´t suit me so well and all of the oldies but goldies like Ulica, Da li znaš, Ostali smo, Neznani junaci…The people were dancing, singing along and having fun, Šapo and company from the band were happy and the gig was superb. I was so happy when they played old songs like Imamo Hrvatsku and Ropstvo je sloboda. The time passed by in a flash and the gig was over, so we went home a bit tired, but happy after another great punk gig. Cheers and many, many thanks to the people of Unterhund for doing such a fine job with promoting great gigs.

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(record review)Batshit Crazy-Bat$hit!crazy

If you love your pop melodic punk with a dose of horror, you came to the right place. I listened and reviewed the new Batshit Crazy record for our zine, so read on!

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These guys are from California and their music has hardcore punk base with Black Flag immediately coming to mind when the firs riff and the first drum beat kicks in. But, they also picked up the melody and the sensibility of Ramones-core, crossbred it with The Misfits gore notebook and hence got their own horrorpoppunk style.

This record contains 12 songs and it is under half an hour long and leaves you wanting for more after listening. With songs like Such A Waste Of Good Suffering or The Babysitter Murders, you just can˙t go wrong. The musicianship is tight, the vocals are sung nicely, not some snotty voiced shit, but great punkrock voice topped with nice backing vocal harmonies. This one is a keeper and I want more of this band, I am looking forward to their future releases.

8/10

https://batshitcrazy.bandcamp.com/album/bat-hit-crazy

https://www.instagram.com/batshitcrazy_band/