L'ENFANT TERRIBLE: DAVOR GOBAC = PSIHOMODO POP

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June 2nd will mark the celebration night entitled “30 years of the Dragon” at Šalata Stadium in Zagreb, as the legendary frontman Davor Gobac with his band ‘Psihomodo Pop’ will take a look back upon the first three decades of their career. Namely, their first LP, has been released in 1988 under the title “Godina Zmaja” – ‘The Year of the Dragon’.

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Davor Gobac was born in 1964 (in Karlovac) – at first he played with the punk-band ’Klinska Pomora’ at the age of 14, then joined the band ‘Neron’ in 1983 which soon changed its name to ‘Psihomodo Pop’ – this year, 2018, should actually be celebrated as the 40th anniversary since Gobac went public presenting one of his numerous talents.

Just a reminder of the ‘Psihomodo Pop’ debut album from 1988: the success in Yugoslavia was enormous, but they also gained international fame, because they were proclaimed as one of the six best bands – among 600 participants – at the rock-festival 'Grote prijs of Netherland'. This led to the first ever clip from Yu, shown by MTV: «Ja volim samo sebe» – in English version – 'I'm in love with Gobac'.

After this success ’Psihomodo Pop’ went on tour in the Netherlands and they ended up releasing the LP 'Live in Amsterdam’.

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In 1990 the group went to SSSR on a three months tour and after that they released the ’Brilliant video Psihomodo Pop’ and participated in the „Zg rock forces live“ compilation. Nevertheless, one of the greatest successes in the career of ’Psihomodo Pop’ was when they were booked in Zagreb and Ljubljana as the opening act on the concert of their idols – 'Ramones’. They also released the second album – „Sexy magazin“ – but they were forced to cancel the promotion tour because of the war.

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In 1993 ’Psihomodo Pop’ releases the art-album „Srebrne Svinje“ ('Silver Pigs’) ...

... then in 1995 „Unpljugd“ – the compilation of the greatest hits from the last 12 years ...

... and in 1997 the interactive cd „Sextasy“

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Davor Gobac is a versatile artist, ’man of a thousand talents’ and he successfully proved himself as a singer-songwriter, painter – he sells only his graphics, while he gives away the original painting to his friends as presents – writer, voiceover artist, actor ... you can find out more about his activities in our interview, recorded in his favorite café in the famous Zagreb neighborhood Trešnjevka, just around the corner from Davor’s home, after he spent the last hours of finishing the cover for the new ‘Psihomodo Pop’ cd – “Debakl”.

In 2001 “Debakl” was awarded with “Porin” as the best rock-album of the year in Croatia.

In 2003 ‘Psihomodo Pop’ released the compilation “Tekućih 20”, they played the sold out 20th anniversary concert in “Dom Sportova” and in 2004 they produced the new set of songs, entitled “Plastic fantastic”

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The double best-of-compilation ‘Ultimate Collection’, ‘Psihomodo Pop’ placed on the market in 2007 ...

... and in 2008 they were recording 12 new songs: “Jeee! Jeee! Jeee!” is the name of the album and also the title song, after the cover of the legendary classic punk rockers’ ‘The Vibrators’. The first single was “Domovine sin” accompanied with the video-clip and the album was released on February 17th, 2009 – Davor’s 45th B-Day.

In 2014 ‘Psihomodo Pop’ released the album “Ćiribu, Ćiriba”

In the meantime, still fit and longhaired Davor Gobac, who looks almost timeless, and who could, metaphorically, be described as the badge with notification: ‘I am Psihomodo Pop’ was frequently active as an actor in TV-series (plus winning of the third place at the "Dancing with Stars" competition), having also very noticeable exhibitions, as well as productive in various other artistic fields.

Until Autumn of 2008, Gobac missed only one title i.e. enfant terrible of the Croatian music scene … and then the ‘Weavers of Fate’ decided to retire the one and only Dino Dvornik and sent him to some other dimension …
From then on – Davor is THE ONE!

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For those – who are not prepared to believe everything they read without proof – I recommend to treat themselves and visit the concert at „Šalata“ on June 2nd in 7 p.m.