Last weekend I spent 4 days at EXIT – an annual music festival held in the Petrovaradin fortress in Novi Sad, a city 80-odd km north of Belgrade. This year’s EXIT, which began in 2000 as a protest against the Slobodan Milosevic government, was the 10th anniversary. Around 200,000 people visited it this year over [...]
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Eurovision Hopefuls
In other, less serious news, all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, plus Albania (ignore the Greek flag in the picture above), have picked their 2009 Eurovision entries:
Serbia
Albania
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Montenegro
Slovenia
Macedonia
Will Eurovision return to the region next year after a short break in Russia? Probably not.
For a rundown of Balkan Eurovision losers, head over to Belgraded.
Which is your [...]
Ahh, the 90s
I came across some clips of Serbian pop music from the 90s. I found them all highly amusing. My favourite one is Opsesija by Beat Street (Bit strit), a Serbian boy band, released in 1995. The ‘Xena-esque’ women warriors and the guys’ costumes are truly remarkable, don’t you think?
Glad to see that British and Serbian [...]
