Let 3
The earliest beginnings of Let 3 can be traced back to the cult punkers from Rijeka, Termiti, and the multimedia project Strukturne ptice. Afterwards, by the beginning of 1986, came Let 2, and a year later Let 3. Bass player Damir Martinović Mrle and singer Zoran Prodanović Prlja were and remain the main driving force and creative strength of Rijeka’s shock rock band Let 3, the Croatian rock group which truly has a specific sense of the comic and bizarre, of provocation and activism.
– We don’t consider ourselves as a classical rock’n’roll band. We think we are much more than that. The easiest way of describing us is as a complete artistic expression which strikes all the senses – explains Let 3 frontman Zoran Prodanović Prlja. – It is my belief that everyone who has heard and felt within himself the artist’s calling, has also the responsibility to be socially active in this crazy world and in these crazy times.
Let 3 has hilarious studio albums (Two Dogs Fucking, 1989; El Desperado, 1991; Peace, 1994; Jedina (My Only), 2000; Bombardiranje Srbije i Čačka (The Bombing Of Serbia And Čačak), 2005), even crazier live recordings and uncompromising concerts, videos, performances and artistic actions and installations. Although a family event, it remains to be seen what will these (mustachioed) artists offer the Street Musicians Festival, in the very heart of Novi Sad…
– During our career, we had a chance to perform in front of the most diverse auditoriums, and the fact that the Street Musicians Festival is, in the manner of speaking, a family event – will certainly not bother us. On the contrary, we love to expand our fan base, and this is an ideal chance for something like that – said Prlja.
Let 3 will on Thursday, 3rd September, be part of the grand opening of this year’s Street Musicians Festival, more precisely: the festival street musical clash concert, which will be held on two stages on the Freedom Square, though one stage will host Atheist Rap, and the other Let 3; Novi Sad’s own will perform songs of Let 3, while the men from Rijeka the songs of the Atheists; plus, both bands will play their greatest hits.
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