Generation 5 in Cetinje on November 1

The eighties group "Generacija 5" will hold a concert on November 1 in Cetinje as part of the Ex-Yu festival. Over the course of three days, the YU group (October 31) and Divlje Jagode (November 2) will also perform, and the goal of this event is to bring together Southern nostalgics, as well as lovers of good music from the eighties.

Although the band Generation 5 has been around for 37 years, this will be the first time in their career to play in the capital.

"I expect that on those days there will be fans of rock music in Cetinje. Just because we have never played in Cetinje before, I think it would be good if as many people as possible come so that we can get to know each other. We will try to do a good promotion of what we are doing during the two hours of the concert. we have worked all these years. I hope that thanks to that concert we will gain more audience in Montenegro", said Dragoljub Ilić, keyboardist and founder of Generation 5, at the beginning of the interview with Vijesti. Dejan Najdanović Najda will lead the vocals, and Ilić promises to live up to the reputation of a "good live band".

During their long-term career, Generation 5 has countless hits behind them, so as Ilić points out, it is not easy for them to reduce 37 years into two hours of programming.

"We try to create a concert concept so that the audience, as well as ourselves, are satisfied and enjoy the stage. We don't have many choices, so the concept of the performance is to create a balance between fast and light songs. Generation 5 is known for having good ballads and they are, in a way, resting places for the audience, and thanks to them they experience our concert emotionally. Each of our performances is, in fact, a combination of an energetic-aggressive approach and a romantic and melodic one," explains the interlocutor of Vijesti. As the festival aims to bring together those nostalgic for the south, Ilić does not hide that he himself is one of them.

"I lived at that time, and we traveled all over the old Yugoslavia. We also had two Yugoslav tours, and I felt at home everywhere. Even today, I feel that way," Ilić reveals. He comments on the fact that, in recent years, more and more music from the period of Yugoslavia has been listened to:

"It seems to me that not enough new names have been created to replace the "old". On the one hand, it is a matter of quality, because when there was a country of 20 million inhabitants, there was a bigger market and therefore more competition. Now, regardless of how much everyone practiced, you don't have a real exchange of ideas. There is no longer even healthy competition, and therefore the quality has dropped in everything, including in music. Now again, those regional leagues in basketball and water polo are being renewed, so football will also come. And the music is here the most open and always offered the possibility to jump over those regional frameworks and to create a healthy climate there. We are witnessing that performers from all other ex-Yu republics perform equally well in Belgrade and full halls and large halls. This is positive and it is high time to get out of those narrow interests and frameworks and to look at these things cosmopolitan," he believes.

But still, even though they look at music like that, since the breakup of Yugoslavia, Generation 5 hasn't played much in the former republics.

"We played mostly in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. We performed in Croatia a few times, and not once in Slovenia. The reason for that is our inertness because I'm sure there is an audience there that remembers our songs," he concludes.

Today, quality is not the primary category, but how much you impose yourself

The last album "Energija" was released by Generacija 5 in 2006, and apart from the music video for the track "Hotel Room", the band members did not work much on its promotion.

"I accept that it's our fault that we didn't promote the songs enough, but the situation on the market is bad. Today, quality is not the primary category, but how many there are and how much you impose yourself. We never knew how to impose ourselves. We work at our own pace, and the fact is that it doesn't reflect well on marketing for us. What we give at concerts is energy that is satisfaction for the fact that we are gone longer".