PULA ROCK CITY

The story of Rock`n`Roll made in Pula (and Istria)

This is a blog where you will find music from one of the richest rock-scene from Croatia, the city of PULA rock-scene.There will be some Istrian music too, as Istria is the region of Croatia to which Pula belongs to.You will find here how good and different was the Pula scene, with some of the bands recognised worldwide.

WELCOME TO PULA!

PS:All the infos about the bands are approximative, and will be changed with every useful info I get from the members of the bands!

PPS: Please notice that the NON-HIGHLIGHTED name of a certain release is a part of band`s audiography, but not available for download, for not having the permission or for respecting the authors rights. Or, of course, not yet in my possession.

Monday, 9 January 2012

FANCY FILTER (2008-2011)

A relatively new band playing a very melodic Alternative Rock, formed by Baya Flok and featuring Roby from Antitodor.

Update 2020: disbanded in 2011.

demo Studio Inkubator 2010

demo Studio Partyzan 2010

HEADBANGER (1990-2000)

A great Punk`n`Roll band with influences from all over the heavy music, in their first line-up/phase playing a very simple and raw but effective Motorhead-ish Metal/Punk, to progress into a more complexive Punk`n`Roll in their second line-up/phase.

cassette "Headbanger Machine" 1992

Promo Tape 1994

EP "Food For Guns" 1995

HOMBE (2008-2011)

Unknown to me, a very young band playing a very raw Classic Pop Rock at their very beginnings.

Demo 2010

ZABLJA PERSPEKTIVA (1983-1985)

A band made of Hard Rock veterans from the Pula scene, in a way this is the first Heavy Metal band from Pula. The band later changed name many times, and continued playing in various line-ups all the way until the 90s.

Demo 1984

MEGABITCH (1991-1995)

A band of students playing a cool melodic Hardcore Punk Rock, widely known for their Punk cover of the Queen`s "I want to break free" hit. Lasted for several years, silently disappeared around 1995, played and won a festival in 2000. and reappeared in an one-off reunion in 2008.

cassette "Stars On 25" 1993

cd "18 Minutes" 2000

BESPOSLICARI (1983-1985)

One of the bands of the second wave of Punk Rock in Pula. Members of the band were, among all, Romeo Djomlija (later leader of The Spoons) and Johnny Montezaro (R.I.P.) on vocals. Recorded just one cassette in 1984 as one of the first DIY products of Pula`s Rock Scene, and then disappeared.

Update 2015: the swedish record label NE! RECORDS released the Besposlicari 1984 material on vinyl simply entitled "Besposlicari".

cassette "Besposlicari" 1984

LP "Besposlicari" 2015

Sunday, 3 October 2010

LEUKKEMIAA (1988- )

This is one of my projects, a band we did less for some music creation, and more just for fun. After a totally unplanned show at a festival in 1993. Leukkemiaa became very "popular" in Pula, adding more and more nonsense to every next show. The thing exploded at the traditional Christmas KUD Idijoti`s concert in 1995. where the singer Pizzo impersonificated Tajci, the popular croatian teen singer of which the band covered the hit "Hajde da ludujemo". After that show, the band never played again, but Leukkemiaa was never a proper band, so a reunion is more than a possible option. Or not.

Bootleg "Powerfest 1993" Pula, 01.05.1993

Soundcheck, Pula, 25.12.1995.

DIY cd "The Worst Of The Worstest" 2002

Sunday, 28 February 2010

ELUJ (2001- )

A multitalented musician with a rich history in playing (Anti-Otpad, Barrakuda, Bolesno Grinje, Dilber Band, Eluj), and this is his one-man project simply called ELUJ (His nickname Jule inversed).

cd "Eva ti mi pomazes vise nego Bog" 2001

cd "Eluj 2" 2006

cd "Eluj 3" 2008

In 2009 ELUJ recorded 3 CDs with Franci Blaskovic, in a project called ROSTIGLIO feat. ELUJ, the three CDs can be found at the
ROSTIGLIO feat. ELUJ page.

cd single Eluj/Coh 2011

Sunday, 4 October 2009

GUSTAPH Y NJEGOVI DOBRI DUHOVI (1980-1986)

GYNDD are a band of the early Pula underground scene, they played a sophisticated New Wave style reminding the most rhytmical and alternative moments of Talking Heads and Gang Of Four.With the specific vocal of Edi Maruzin, the band released only one album, produced by Milan Mladenovic (R.I.P. , ex-Sarlo Akrobata, ex-Ekatarina Velika).The band, after the split-up, played for a while as Pino Papilon Band and Espirito Pampa, and then started the great Tex-Mex Rock band GUSTAFI, one of the leading croatian live acts.

demo "Fiesta Y Ostale Svjetovne Dogodovstine" 1981

demo "Casovnici, Ptice, Mrtvaci I Ostali Svjetovni Napjevi J.H. Yohimbe" 1983

demo "20 Greatest Hites And Pomfrites" 1984

LP "V" 1985

BOLESNO GRINJE (2000-2020 )

One of the best Grindcore bands from the territory of the ex-Yu, Bolesno Grinje is a band of very musically talented guys. The band raised on the ashes of Anti Otpad, and with time strenghten in both production and execution.Two members of the band have their own one-man-side-projects, Jule as ELUJ and Hoc as COH.