Pankrti (The Bastards in Slovenian) were a punk rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active in the late seventies and eighties. They were one of the first punk bands in Yugoslavia and known for provocative and politically engaged songs. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Tromostovje (Tromostovje) and Franciscan church (Frančiškanska cerkev) in baroque style in the back Ljubljana (IPA ), German Laibach (), Italian Lubiana () is the capital of Slovenia, situated on the outfall of the river Ljubljanica into the Sava, in central Slovenia, between the Alps and the Mediterranean. ... Jump to: navigation, search Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...

Peter Lovšin and Gregor Tomc, two youths from Kodeljevo, a suburb of Ljubljana came to an idea of forming a band in 1977. The band, from its beginnings, was under heavy influence of the UK punk scene. Lovšin was the primary song writer and the singer of the band, while Tomc wrote some songs and was the band's manager.

The band started playing in fall of 1977, practicing in the basement of Kodeljevo's music school, and held the first concert in Moste High School. Initially they played covers of established punk bands including Sex Pistols, The Clash and New York Dolls. Some of their first songs that became popular were "Za železno zaveso" (Behind Iron Curtain) and "Anarhist" (The Anarchist). They released the first album in 1978. Jump to: navigation, search For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Sex Pistols in 1977. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Clash was a successful British punk rock group that existed from 1976 to 1986. ... New York Dolls, 1973 The New York Dolls were a rock music group formed in New York City in 1971. ...

Pankrti became popular in all of Yugoslavia in the early 1980s, when Yugoslavian new wave (Novi val) scene formed, getting well known in cities like Zagreb or Belgrade. Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Zagreb (pronounced: ) is the capital city of Croatia. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

One of their last concerts was in Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana in 1987, named Zadnji pogo (The Last Pogo). Jump to: navigation, search 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Popular references

• Rock band Azra mentions Pankrti in its song "Balkan"

Brijem bradu, brkove, da ličim na Pankrte

I will shave my beard to look like Pankrti

• In a Slovenian film "Outsider", most of the soundtrack is original Pankrti's music.
• Slovenian punk band Racija has a song "To ni bla Metka" (That was not Metka), apparently parodying Pankrti's song "Metka".

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Members

• Peter Lovšin (singer)
• Bogo Pretnar (guitar)
• Dušan Žiberna (guitar)
• Marc Kavaš (guitar)
• Boris Kramberger (bass)
• Slavc Colnarič (drums)

Discography

• Lublana je bulana (1978, SKUC)
• Dolgcajt (1980, RTV Ljubljana)
• Novi punk val (1981)
• Namesto tebe (1981, RTV Ljubljana)
• Državni ljubimci (1982, RTV Ljubljana)
• Svoboda (1982, RTV Ljubljana)
• Rdeči album (1984, RTV Ljubljana)
• Pesmi sprave (1985, RTV Ljubljana)
• Slovan (1985, Slovan)
• Sexpok (1987, RTV Ljubljana)

External link

• Fan site, in English and Slovene