Deca losih muzicara Play Nis After Seven-Month Delay

The date had been sitting on the calendar since winter, tickets were already sold, and then, two days before the start of spring, came the news: it wasn’t the show that was being moved, it was one band member, straight to an operating table. He needed surgery, and the double bill set for March 20 and 21 was called off with no new date attached. Seven months later, that date has finally arrived. Deca losih muzicara play Nis on October 29 and 30, Thursday and Friday, starting at 9:30 PM, at the club Feedback, and this time the reason for any cancelation would have to be something more serious than surgery.

Formed in 1988, the band is one of the few acts that keeps funk and rock welded together without it sounding like a lesson from a music textbook, and they arrive with an album that, according to one source, actually came out back in the summer of 2025 on Midget Unit Records: “Ustani Slaj Stoune, Srbija te zove.” The title alone carries the kind of irony the band has cultivated since it started, a call to a forefather of funk to rise up at the exact moment the local scene seems least sure why he should. The horn section, the group’s trademark, isn’t decoration here, it’s the engine: it carries the rhythm whenever the lyrics pause to catch their breath, and that combination is what has kept the band recognizable across nearly four decades without ever needing to change the formula.

Nis audiences know the band better than you’d expect for a group with a Belgrade address. Two years ago, a show at the former club Oxygen ended a six-year gap in the city, and by all accounts that comeback was convincing enough to justify two back to back dates now instead of one. The organizers from Stek House are promising a set that spans the band’s whole career, which for a catalog like this means room for “Dobar dan,” “Dozivotno osudjen na ljubav,” and “Vlade Divac,” a song title that still throws off first-time listeners who assume it’s about basketball rather than the lyrics. Also on the list are “Ubise Pabla,” “Disko klub,” “Prolecni dan,” “Konji ritma,” and a cover of “Let There Be Rock,” which picks up an extra layer in their hands thanks to a horn section the original recording never had.

What makes this return more interesting than a standard show announcement is the reason behind the delay itself. A band that builds its image on energy and physical presence on stage spent seven months waiting for one of its own to recover from surgery, and only now, with the album already a year on the market, does it get to properly introduce it to a live Nis crowd. That kind of delay has nothing to do with marketing or a calculated wait for the right moment, which is exactly why it reads as more genuine than the usual promotional buildup.

The practical side is simple, but worth repeating in full, since a mix-up at the box office has a way of ruining an evening faster than a bad sound setup. Presale tickets cost 1,800 dinars, rising to 2,000 dinars on the day of the show if any remain. Tickets are sold through bilet.rs and at the Check In Travel agency in Nis, on Dusanov bazar, at Cara Dusana 54. Anyone who already bought a ticket for March doesn’t need to do anything: it’s valid for both October dates, either night. The one exception is the free promotional tickets handed out during the first campaign, which are not valid for either new date, so anyone holding one needs to go through the regular box office instead.

Two consecutive shows in the same club with the same band also send a practical message to fans who like to pick and choose: miss Thursday, and Friday is still there, and anyone who wants both gets two versions of the same material that, given how deep the catalog runs, are almost certainly not going to line up song for song.