TOZIBABE – BAD, BAD GALS

No wonder I never heard of this band as a little girl growing up in Socialist utopia. The uncompromising punk/hard-core sound and equally edgy looks were too much for the mainstream media, and underground fanzines were not something you were red before bedtime by your parents. However, I am completely sure I would have gone nuts for their bleached, spiked hairdos and heavily kohled eyes.

Formed in Ljubljana in the eighties, they toured the underground clubs of the former Yugoslavia (their most legendary gig was the one in legendary Akademija club in Belgrade), venturing to the daylight only to shoot some of their scandalous videos, like the one that starts with their childhood pictures and ends with the three of them wearing neon wigs and halters, hitchhiking by the highway, observed by shocked and appalled fellow-citizens.

They sure did not care what anyone thought, but even today their reputation is live and strong among the small, but loyal group of international punk connoisseurs.

Watch some rare girl-pogo in this Tozibabe video- you might catch some moves and make-up tips: