Concert

13.April 2025 Zorica Kojic

Pankrti: Nobody plays like this anymore

On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the release of their debut album "Dolgcajt" in Belgrade, the Ljubljana punk-rock group Pankrti reminded us how existential boredom still occupies our lives.

Interview: Peter Lovšin, Pankrti

Today, the average person is less than average

With some of our poets, a philosopher of anarchism and other friends, we made some happenings where we cooked spaghetti on stage. At two or three appearances of this happening, they kicked us off the stage, because it was too crazy. I was convinced that "Pankrti" would last as long as those happenings. But the following happened: when we played our first concert at Moščanska Gymnasium - which we advertised as "The first punk concert behind the Iron Curtain" - so many people came that we were surprised. If members of law and order stopped by on that occasion, they wouldn't even have been able to get inside, because everything in the hall was completely full, and even if they somehow got in, they wouldn't have understood anything.