They started popping out in the eighties, doing something unheard of: instead of settling with a lead singer / most-photographed-band-member role, they grabbed drumsticks and guitars and started singing about previously uncovered topics, ranging from how regular, plane boys were boring, to masturbation, to lipsticks and girly trinkets.  Equally varied were the styles of their clothes and their music. In the next couple of days I will present you the first three all-girls bands from this region.

BOYE – ROCK CHICKS

No fools, no frills girls band formed in Novi Sad in 1981, they had to wait for 7 years for the first album release because they refused to compromise their raw, energetic sound contrasted with polyphonic girl vocals reciting slogan-like lyrics. Non-surprisingly, they also had no intention to dress to impress anyone; their black-and-white photos from the beginning of their career as well as the color ones from its end all witness about the same sober and simple classic rock uniform of jeans, black T shirts and leather jackets. It was their music that was playful and colorful, so no wonder that, touched by the magic hand of Koja from Disciplina Kitschme as their producer, they gained incredible popularity for an alternative band.

Not only are they one of my favorite bands of all times, but they also have one of the best band names (“e” added at the end gives the noun “Boy” female gender in Serbian).

They released their last album in 1997, which makes them the longest living of all all-girls bands (or almost-girls bands, as they were later joined by male members) and they even had a recent resurrection through a documentary movie “The First Real Female Sound” (“Prvi pravi zenski zvuk”) by  Brankica Draskovic in 2009.