Joker Out Marks a Decade in Belgrade, Album Waits Until 2027
Slovenian band Joker Out marks ten years with an August 23 show at Belgrade Port's Open Air Corner, but frontman Bojan Cvjeticanin says the fourth album won't arrive before spring 2027.
Tickets for the Belgrade concert by Slovenian band Joker Out went on sale back in winter, on Friday, January 23, at ten in the morning, through Ticket Vision outlets and the tickets.rs website, a full seven months before anything lights up on that stage. That is how far in advance this kind of evening gets planned, for an audience that buys a ticket for the date, not for a song it heard on the radio.
The Slovenian five piece marks ten years together on August 23 at the Open Air Corner venue inside Belgrade Port, in a show organized by production company Long Play. The order here runs opposite to the usual one: the anniversary comes before the record, not after it. The fourth album has only been announced for spring 2027, a point by which the anniversary tour will already be long behind them.
Who’s Celebrating a Decade
The band was founded in 2016, with a lineup of Bojan Cvjeticanin, Kris, Jan, Jure and Nace. They introduced themselves to audiences outside Slovenia in 2023, when they represented the country at Eurovision, and have not been a niche act since. Their concerts sell out months in advance, and their fan base is spread across Europe.
In this region, that kind of rise usually gets read as a Eurovision borrowed spotlight lasting one season. Ten years of work and a Belgrade stage in August 2026 are facts that do not support that assumption.
What Do We Know About the Fourth Album?
Cvjeticanin told Tanjug that the new release will be “very fresh, very positive,” matching how the band currently feels, in his words. It was the first time the singer spoke about what the Belgrade night is meant to be and what the material coming after it sounds like.
The tone he describes is not just a description of the sound, it is an intention:
We’re entering a new decade and it has to feel refreshing. We hope that over the next ten years we’ll see a positive trend of happiness and satisfaction among people in our region, and that our music reflects that too.
That sentence was spoken in a region where rock music, whenever it addresses the community, tends to look backward. Cvjeticanin is talking about the next ten years, and that shift is worth hearing before the album even exists.
For the audience showing up on August 23, that practically means they will not be hearing a promotional set for the new release. That night’s setlist is material from the band’s first decade, while the coming album remains a promise with a delivery date measured in seasons.
August on the Docks and in the Gardens
Belgrade’s August this year is not the quiet month it can sometimes be. Outdoors, alongside the Belgrade Port concert, a lineup of names from very different corners of music takes turns on stage:
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, August 7
- Black Country, New Road, August 12
- This Will Destroy You, August 13
- Obojeni Program, August 20
- Kobi, August 26 and 27
- Stereo MC’s, August 28, again at the Open Air Corner
Belgrade Port ends up hosting two concerts within the same month this way, one for an audience that grew up on the nineties and one for a crowd that only knows those years as archive footage. A space never built for music has turned into one of the few venues in Belgrade where you can stand in summer without feeling like you are in a hall with the roof torn off.
If the anniversary is a test, it is not passed by ticket numbers but by whether the decade sounds like a complete arc or a string of singles lined up by year. The answer arrives on the evening of August 23, and confirmation only comes with the album, in spring 2027.
