Belgrade's Partibrejkers play Zagreb's Bugalu club on October 17. Doors are at 9pm, and the organisers are billing the night with a line that says everything: fewer screens, more straight rock and roll.

Partibrejkers were formed in Belgrade in August 1982 and are among the most respected bands of the Yugoslav rock scene. The first album, "Partibrejkers I", came out in 1985 with a line-up of two guitars, drums and vocals - no bass guitar at all, which at the time was an openly defiant choice. The band's two pillars are singer Zoran Kostic Cane and guitarist Nebojsa Antonijevic Anton. Kostic had previously played in Urbana Gerila and Radnicka Kontrola, Antonijevic in BG5, Butik and Sine.

What keeps them relevant forty-four years later is not only the music. Partibrejkers were part of Rimtutituki, an anti-war project at a time when taking an anti-war position cost far more than it does now. That is why audiences across the entire former Yugoslav space take them in without needing anyone explained to them.

The line-up has changed many times over, but the core never has, and the critics have stayed on their side through the decades. Tickets via entrio.hr go up to 27 euros, or roughly 1,663 denars.