The Croatian punk rock band "Hladno pivo" will complete its festival story in Montenegro with a performance at the Sea Dance Festival, which will be held on the beach of Buljarice from August 30 to September 1, considering that there are almost no events left where they have not performed.
In recent years, audiences in Podgorica, Budva, Nikšić and Cetinje could hear the hits "Pitala si me", "Nije sve tak sivo", "Messi" and many others at City Groove, Royal Music Fest, Lake Fest, Summer Fest ...
However, as Mile Kekin, frontman and singer of this band, revealed in an interview with "Vijesti", there are still places where they could perform in Montenegro.
"There are a lot of events in the summer, I don't know if we missed something because there are so many festivals, not only in Montenegro, that I can't list them all. The entire region wakes up in the summer, and then it quiets down a bit in the winter, and that's where the club gigs suffered a bit, because there are places where you can play when it's not plus 40 degrees outside. So I would like to come to some rock club in Montenegro in the future", he admits.
With the statement that it happened that they had three performances in a country in the region a year, that there is always an enviable number of fans in front of the stage, Kekin modestly admits that it is the "fault" of the festivals.
"The audience doesn't come here for us, but for the complete manifestation of other bands and performers, so that our audience will be there, but also those who came to hear someone else, so here and there we can win over someone", Kekin believes.
In addition to visiting a large number of cities in Montenegro, "Cold Beer" can be said to have performed in all weather conditions, high summer temperatures, wind during the New Year's concert, and even the rain that fell during the first City Groove festival .
"I prefer summer gigs, they are a bit more relaxed. However, the most important thing is what kind of audience there is and that the concert comes to an end. There were performances when we were almost swept off the stage. For us, the most important thing is that the concert has a beginning and an end, and then the temperature is not so important", claims the musician.
"We had good concerts even in winter. I remember one year in Ljubljana it was minus 15 degrees. Then it's very difficult for guitarists," continues Kekin.
To the delight of the guitarists of "Hladog piva", the Sea Dance festival takes place at the end of August and the beginning of September, so the temperature in Budva will be perhaps the most ideal for them so far, when it comes to performances in Montenegro.
Although they performed at Exit in Novi Sad three years ago, Kekin says that this experience is not decisive for them when preparing for Sea Dance in the same organization, because it is a different concept.
"Exit is a specific manifestation, where you can play several times, like we did, at dawn, and it didn't spoil anything, moreover, it was a concert to remember, because there the audience changes day for night", he believes.
"Sea Dance is, I think, a completely different story, because as the name suggests, you dance more by the sea, so I assume that the list of performers is also different, as well as the genre. We will have a shortened concert and we will try to show what we have done in these 30 years, because we are going back and we will also play some old songs. I hope we will make a good party like every time", hinted the musician.
Given that they recently had a concert "30 years in one evening" in Croatia to mark their third decade, Kekin also revealed how difficult it is to turn such a repertoire into a festival repertoire, when they have twice as little time.
"There are a lot of those big hits that you don't want to play anymore, that's why we have a rule of 'two for the audience, one for us'", the frontman of the band laughs and adds that the task is very difficult due to the fact that they have more than 150 songs that need to be played. place in less than an hour.
"We don't have a set list, we agree on the first two or three songs, so when someone from the audience in the front rows really insists on a track, we know how to change the whole plan and play to the audience's liking. That's the best thing for me, when the concert is unpredictable", says the musician, who laughs and states that he gave "Vijesti" readers permission to "order songs".
"You fight in the front rows, shout, maybe we hear you, so we play your song," says Kekin half-jokingly, who is also preparing his solo album.
"It will be released in October, the songs have been recorded, two singles have been released, I am preparing the third and I am planning a duet with a well-known musician after a long time, but about that time," said Kekin, who did not want to reveal whether it was about fulfilling the wish of Momcilo Bajagić Bajaga, who recently expressed his desire to cooperate with "Hladni pivo".
After the Serbian rockers' concert in Karlovci was canceled due to pressure from veterans, "Hladno pivo" refused to be their replacement, and in the end the musician only stated that he was glad that Bajaga and the Instructors and his band would meet at the Sea Dance festival. where both bands perform.
On the roof of KIC "Budo Tomović" was the most beautiful welcome
One of the "Cold Beer" concerts in Montenegro, which was remembered by both sides of the stage, was on the roof of KIC "Budo Tomović" when two concerts in a row were sold out.
"It was fantastic, our first concerts in Montenegro. I remember it was abnormally hot, so we were wondering how we were going to do it on the roof, however in the evening the temperature dropped a bit and it was great. On the first day, we had a small incident, because someone excited from the audience activated a fire extinguisher and sprayed it on the audience, but it didn't spoil the concert. That was the nicest welcome, when you come somewhere for the first time and have two sold-out concerts in a row," Kekin recalled.
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