The atmosphere at the Katapult concert is like a South American derby

An atmosphere like no other in derbies of South American football leagues, choral singing of the audience from the first to the last second of the concert, torches, Gula's entry into the fan pit in front of the stage, then almost the entire pit exiting the stage and changing the fans on the microphone, a girl playing on stage next to the keyboard player and a kind of dance choreography of the people closest to Gula on stage - are just some of the details from last night's triumphant performance of Katapult in the hall of the Cultural Center.

The concerts of the longest-running Montenegrin rock group in Bar are a specific and insufficiently researched phenomenon: this kind of audience response to the messages and symbols broadcast from the stage under Rumija, neither Atomic Shelter nor Bijelo Dugme nor Bajaga managed to achieve in the days of their greatest glory.

"This is the home field, everything is allowed" laconically announced Gula at the beginning of the show that followed.

This is home ground, everything is allowed

Due to the force of circumstances, i.e. meteorological forecasts of precipitation, the concert was moved from the summer garden to the hall of the Cultural Center, although at the time of the start there was not even a hint of a cloud in the sky.

Bad luck, certainly, however, the heat in the audience would have been there even without the June temperature plus, which was literally evoked on two occasions by the torches lit by the fans.

From the opening "Love Song" to the very end, every Katapult song had an extension in the form of choral singing from the audience with constant chanting of "Gula, Gula"...

And in the audience Gula's notebooks, boys and girls who grew up with the first Katapult albums in the early eighties, boys and girls who weren't born at the time when the bar band played "Crna Goro" at the Budva festival, and a truly incredible number of little ones who accompanied the concert by sitting on their fathers' shoulders or holding their hands.

Furious finale

The hits line up like on a conveyor belt, and the band grinds like a steamroller in every sense of the comparison. The emotional highlight of the evening, at least for the older visitors, was the performance of the song about the famous Bar sailor "Limousine and Havana is waiting for Aca Borozan" in which Chef Božo (Gagović) engraved a terrific guitar solo.

Gula responds to the most passionate fans and on "I hide myself in myself" he goes down into the audience, the microphone is passed from hand to hand, and already for the next song, the frontman of Katapult invites the kop to join him on the stage.

The announced surprise guest was on the stage throughout the concert - the club band "Akademija".

The fans then sing in front of the band "When things go bad for you once" and the last song before the encore "Years go by". There are no more people sitting in the audience, visitors of all generations - everyone is on their feet, everyone is singing.

The lights are then turned on in the hall, but this interactive experience is not yet over, the euphoria in front of the stage does not stop. The encore follows first "Moja ulica zaobilaze" from the first album, which was previously performed for the "team from the Macedonian settlement", and then "Jer u tovij očima" for the end.

The announced surprise guest was on the stage the entire time of the concert - the club band "Akademija", whose foursome make up the musicians of Katapult, who played two covers while Gula rested for the furious finale.

Apart from the most intense reaction of the audience so far when it comes to Catapult, the great sound signed by Bar's "Boltes" should also be highlighted from the concert.

Almost "crowdsurfing"

Guli almost failed to achieve the first "crowdsurfing" in the history of bar rock concerts, that is, to have fans walk across the hall on their hands.

More precisely, when he entered the dugout, he didn't end up in the hands of enthusiastic fans.

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