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Bosnia, like most states in Europe, has
introduced lockdown in an attempt to halt the spread of the
novel coronavirus which has so far infected close to 800 people
and caused 30 deaths in the Balkan country.
Each Monday at 20:30 (18:30 GMT), tens of thousands of people
watch the dub rock group perform online, with the musicians
playing from their homes in three different countries.
"The internet has remained the only way for us to communicate
and play music," Dubioza Kolektiv keyboardist Brano Jakupovic
told Reuters speaking via Skype from his home in Sarajevo.
"It is important that people enjoy the concert but also that
they communicate via chats, write to each other and feel for the
moment the same way as they felt before corona," Jakupovic said.
The musicians play from their homes in Bosnia, Croatia and
Slovenia but their act is perfectly synchronised.
Jakupovic says that about 30,000-40,000 fans from dozens of
countries worldwide watch the concert live online. "It's very
exciting, and it all happens while playing from our own
bedrooms," he said, laughing.
Dubioza Kolektiv is known for their eclectic musical style and
socially and politically engaged lyrics sung in Bosnian and
English.
Their first quarantine show on YouTube three weeks ago had
almost 200,000 views and about 1,000 comments and cheers.
"This is perhaps one of rare moments when the situation is the
same on the whole planet," Jakupovic said. "One microscopic
organism is capable of bringing us to a point where all of us
are the same, while we are not capable of doing that ourselves."
(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
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