S Vremena Na Vreme

S Vremena Na Vreme was a Serbian rock band formed in Belgrade in 1972 by the brothers Miomir "Miki" and Vojislav "Koki" Đukić, Asim Sarvan and Ljubomir "Ljuba" Ninković. All four sang and played acoustic guitars, with Miomir also on prim, a kind of tamburica. They are counted among the pioneers of Yugoslav acoustic rock and among the first to bring Balkan traditional music into rock. The Đukić brothers had played in the school band Pupoljci, Ninković had won third place at the 1971 Omladina festival in Subotica, and the name was suggested by Boban Petrović, a Radio Belgrade recording technician.

At first they wrote music for theatre plays and recorded more than 100 pieces for Radio Belgrade, playing live only rarely, among other times at Pop Mašina's Košutnjak concerts in 1972 and 1973. Their first single, "Sunčana strana ulice" with "Ponekad", came out on Radio Kruševac in 1973, followed by "Čudno drvo" with "Odisej" on Jugoton, and appearances on the TV show Tip top kabare made them known nationwide. They won the award for best original music at the Festival of Yugoslav Radio in Ohrid in 1973 and 1974 and played the 1974 BOOM Festival, where a live "Odisej" was recorded for the festival album.

The debut album S Vremena Na Vreme (1975), with Nikola Jager on drums and Robert Nemeček on bass, was praised by critics, and Moj svet (1978) collected songs from their singles. In 1979 they toured Poland, staged Yugoslavia's first quadraphonic concert together with the band Tako and released the more electric Paviljon G, then split up when Vojislav went into the army.

In the years apart Sarvan formed Muzej Sarvan and wrote for folk singers, and Ninković formed Tunel and took part in YU Rock Misija in 1985. A fundraising concert in May 1993 led to a reunion, crowned by a show at Sava Centar on 5 November 1993. Posle kraja followed in 1995, and a Novi Sad concert of 30 January 1996 became the live album Unplugged (1997). The band came together again in 2013 to mark forty years since its first single and played until the COVID-19 pandemic, ending for good in 2020. Ljubomir Ninković died on 6 January 2026, aged 76.

Their debut album was ranked 30th in the 1998 book YU 100, and Branimir "Johnny" Štulić of Azra covered "Traži mene" in 1989 and "Sunčana strana ulice" in 2011. Their songs also include "Jana", "Đački rastanak" and "Tema Classica".