Uros Zivkovic on Ice at the Sabac Fair: I Got Angry
Before a show at a Belgrade tavern, the singer talked about the night someone in the crowd hit him with ice, his wife being older than him and hanging out with fellow singers.
Singer Uros Zivkovic spoke at length to reporters before a show at a Belgrade tavern about the night at the Sabac Fair when someone in the crowd hit him with ice while he was performing. The sources do not give the exact date of that show.
What did Zivkovic say about the ice at the Sabac Fair?
The singer says the incident angered him precisely because the mood had been good until then. This is how he described it to reporters before the Belgrade show:
“The atmosphere was brutal, and then one individual turns up trying to spoil it. However much of a fair it is, there is music here, a good atmosphere, and we are trying to avoid incidents. Imagine if I took a bucket full of ice and threw it at my own audience. I got angry because everyone has the right to like something or not, but they cannot show it that way.”
With that, the singer made it clear that an audience deserves respect and that such behavior cannot be justified.
Why does Zivkovic sing at the fair?
Performances at the Sabac Fair were a big topic this year: some people are for them, others think they hurt a career. Zivkovic has sung there for the third or fourth year in a row and says things have changed.
“There were a lot of people and older folk singers too, which is great, and I think this year the bar was raised to a higher level and for the better. The fair is no longer an ordinary fair where people trudge through the mud,” the singer said. He added that he has performed in many venues across the Balkans and that it makes no difference. On the size of his crowd, he said: “When about two thousand people come to see you, there is nothing to be ashamed of.”
What did he say about his wife and son?
The conversation also turned to his private life. When reporters asked whether he could be with a woman considerably older than himself, Zivkovic said he has always dated older women, though not by that much. About his wife he said: “My wife is older than me and I have nothing against it.”
About his son, he said the child senses when his father is leaving the house, so at those moments his parents look for a way to distract him. “Today I got dressed in front of the door so he wouldn’t hear, but the older children get, the closer they are with their parents,” he said.
Who can drink more, Katarina Grujic or Tamara Milutinovic?
Finally, reporters asked him about hanging out with fellow singers: which of Katarina Grujic and Tamara Milutinovic can drink more. Zivkovic answered briefly, with a smile: “Believe me, it’s a dead heat.”
As for other get-togethers, the singer says that among his circle of friends he is the one who stays until the end. He sees his friends at birthdays and slava celebrations, and when they haven’t seen each other in a while, they shut themselves in a small venue, switch off their phones and call in a band.
