Partibrejkers

Partibrejkers
Partibrejkers performing live in 2003
Background information
Origin	Belgrade, Serbia
Genres	Garage rock, rhythm and blues, punk blues, blues rock, pub rock
Years active	1982 – present
Labels	PGP-RTB, Jugoton, Jugodisk, PGP-RTS, B92, Hi-Fi Centar, Sorabia Disc
Associated acts	Urbana Gerila, Radnička Kontrola, Radost Evrope, Disciplina Kičme, Ekatarina Velika, Vlada Divljan Old Stars Band, Rimtutituki, Banana, Gluve Kučke, Oružjem Protivu Otmičara, NBG, Jugosloveni, Eyesburn, Kazna Za Uši, Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša
Website	partibrejkers.net
Members	Zoran Kostić Nebojša Antonijević Darko Kurjak Zlatko Veljović
Past members	List Borko Petrović Dejan Utvar Dime Todorov Gojko Ševar Goran Bulatović Igor Borojević Ljubiša Kostadinović Marko Milivojević Miodrag Karajanković Nenad Krasavac Saša Vlajsović Srđan Graovac Vlada Funtek Vladislav Rac

Partibrejkers (Serbian Cyrillic: Партибрејкерс, transliteration for: Partybreakers) is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade, as well as one of the most acclaimed acts of the Yugoslav rock scene.

The band was formed in 1982 and released its first album, Partibrejkers I in 1985 in a two guitars, drums and vocal set (no bass guitar). The band has experienced numerous line-up changes. The mainstay of the band are Zoran Kostić "Cane" (vocals) and Nebojša Antonijević "Anton" (guitar). The band has received steady critical acclaim over the years and is well received by audiences all over former Yugoslavia, not only because of their music, but also because of their anti-war activism with the Rimtutituki project. Their influences are diverse, such as the Stooges, MC5, early Rolling Stones and New York Dolls, combined with blues, British rhythm-and-blues and pub rock, rockabilly and classic rock and roll.

The band was formed by a former Urbana Gerila and Radnička Kontrola member Zoran Kostić "Cane" (vocals), former Republika members Goran Bulatović "Manza" (drums) and Ljubiša Kostadinović "Ljuba" (guitar) and former BG5, Butik and Šine member Nebojša Antonijević "Anton" (guitar). Bulatović named the band by Kostić's idea of themselves, a transliterated version of party-breakers. They had their first public appearance on October 4, 1982, at the Dadov Theatre, performing as an opening act for The Fifties. After the appearance, the band started performing often and on one occasion, in Zagreb, they held five concerts in three days time, Branimir "Johnny" Štulić being the sound engineer at the last concert, and even offering to be the band's producer. The band's first recording, the song "Radio Utopia", was released on the various artists compilation Ventilator 202 in 1983 by PGP-RTB. Demo versions of the songs "Hiljadu godina" ("A Thousand Years") and "Večeras" ("Tonight") were often broadcast on Serbian radio stations, and the newly recorded versions of the songs were released as their first single.