Patrola

Patrola were a Croatian new wave band from Zagreb, formed in 1980 and active until 1983. They played new wave and power pop with occasional touches of ska. The first line-up was Renato Metessi on vocals, Aleksandar Mićunović "Amigo" and Damir Molnar on guitars, Staško Adlešić on bass and Dragan Simonovski on drums.

At the end of 1980 they played the YU Rock Momenat festival at the Zagreb club Lapidarij, alongside Lačni Franz, Električni Orgazam, Šarlo Akrobata, Pekinška Patka, Film, Haustor and others, and in January 1981 they took part in Pozdrav iz Zagreba, a four-day festival of Zagreb new wave bands at the Belgrade Youth Center.

Their only released album, U sredini (1981, Suzy), was produced by Husein Hasanefendić "Hus", guitarist and leader of Parni Valjak, with Parni Valjak's Rastko Milošev as a guest. "Ne pitaj za mene", "U sredini" and "Čovjek bez slobode" became summer hits. During the promotional tour Metessi and Mićunović came to blows at a concert in Lapidarij, and Metessi walked off stage mid-show; he soon left to form Zvijezde, and the first line-up broke up.

Molnar rebuilt the band with singer Mladen Bodalec, bassist Zorislav Preskavec and drummer Goran Markić. They recorded a second album, Tragovi noći, which was never released, as Molnar's army service ended the band. Mićunović and Simonovski formed Tora, which released one album in 1983, and Simonovski then joined Dorian Gray. Bodalec sang backing vocals on Prljavo Kazalište's Korak od sna (1983) and became their singer in 1985, and Preskavec joined Parni Valjak in the late 1980s.

"Ne pitaj za mene" lived on in covers: Ivana Banfić released it as a single in 1993, and the Serbian punk rock band Novembar recorded it on their album Radulizam in 2008.