Goran Bare and Majke return to Šalata in Zagreb on September 5, playing outdoors in the city for the first time in more than seven years. It is also the band's only Zagreb concert this year, which with Bare's audience automatically means a sold-out ground.

Majke are a cult Croatian rock band, and Bare is a figure rarely found on the regional scene: a singer whose biography is at least as well known as the songs. The road to this concert is best explained by the run of shows that came before it. A sold-out Boćarski dom, two nights in a row at Boogaloo and a full Arena before that. When a band on that kind of streak still chooses an open-air space, it is not an album launch but a return to the format that suits it.

Šalata is a sports centre with stands, which means a concert under an open sky on a September Zagreb night, with an audience that knows the songs word for word. That is part of the story with Bare: his concerts work as collective singing, not as a one-way performance from stage to seats.

Prices are tiered and reward buying early. The first 500 tickets cost 20 euros, advance sales are 26 euros, on the day of the concert 30 euros, and seats in the side stand 44 euros. Sales run through entrio.hr. The gap between the first and last price tier is more than double, which with a concert announced like this rarely stays unclaimed for long.