Night Shift | |
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Origin | Belgrade, Serbia |
Genres | Post-grunge, hard rock |
Years active | 1991 – present |
Labels | PGP-RTS, Multimedia Records |
Associated acts | 357 |
Website | www.nightshift.co.rs |
Members | Milan Šćepanović Danijel Šćepanović Branislav Vukobratović |
Past members | Marko Dacić |
Night Shift is a Serbian hard rock band from Belgrade.
The band was formed in 1991, by the Šćepanović brothers, Milan (guitar, vocals) and Danijel (drums, percussion), with their friend Marko Dacić (bass guitar, vocals). The official date of the band formation was chosen to be 11 January 1991, when the trio had their first live performance. Two years later, in 1993, the band started performing across FR Yugoslavia.
During 1999 and 2000, touring extensively, the band introduced a regular sound and light engineer. Already having a cult status, and being a live club attraction, the band started to record a studio album.
The band's debut, cover album Undercovers was released in 2002 by PGP-RTS, produced by Milan Šćepanović and Mirko Vukomanović. The album, featuring cover versions of Sade, Eurythmics, The Stranglers, Peter Gabriel, Gloria Jones, Everything but the Girl, The Doors, Ricky Martin, Prince and Terence Trent D'Arby songs, was well received by the critics and audience alike. The album featured guest appearances by Dejan Cukić and Negative frontress Ivana Pavlović on backing vocals. Promotional videos were recorded for the tracks "No Ordinary Love", "Livin' La Vida Loca", and "Missing". During the same year, the band appeared on the tribute album Kao da je bilo nekad... Posvećeno Milanu Mladenoviću dedicated to Milan Mladenović, with the cover version of the Ekatarina Velika song "Ti si sav moj bol" ("You're All of My Pain"). After the release of Undercovers, the band went on the No Ordinary Tour, performing forty live dates, including the Zaječar Gitarijada festival, Novi Sad EXIT festival and Belgrade Beer Fest. By the end of the No Ordinary Tour, the band already had more than 1500 live performances.