What happens to Thompson’s band, are Croatian roses questionable? ‘Quarrel? What kind of quarrel? ‘

Two months And for eight days he divides us from Megakoncert Marko Perkovic Thompson at the Hippodrome in Zagreb. Next weekend, the singer will also go out to the audience, at the concert « Split Slavs, Pray and Love », which is scheduled for May 1 at 8 pm in the Great Hall of the Gripe. And just when the « real », fierce season for musicians began, when everyone more or less could hardly wait for outdoor performances, in Thompson’s case no more or less than in front of half a million fans, a shock from the band.

Drummer Ivica Bilic, who is with Mark shared the stage for almost two decades, leaving the band?! Where did this now?!, Are wondering confusedly by the River of Persen’s Opus, as well as a considerable number of curious people who closely follow the relationship on the show.

In addition to the very significant timem, the way the drummer has shared his decision with the public as many questions. Specifically, Bilic announced on his private Facebook profile that on Thursday, April 24, 2025, he came to an end to his collaboration with Thompson. As the tportal unofficially learns the drummer is not the only one who left. They claim that not even the rest of the band members (keyboardist, guitarist, bass guitarist) who have followed the famous singer for many years, will not perform at the magnificent Zagreb concert.

– My long -standing collaboration with MPT. Nineteen years of cooperation has passed quickly. Thank you to all the people I gladly see for the concerts, thank you and all my colleagues I shared with the stage, as well as everyone who was in the service of the concert – Bilic announced.

However, the announcement was visible only to those who were connected by friendship on the social network.

It’s a fierce metal

Bilic is a fierce metal. He was born in Split, he is 44 years old, successfully performing with Thompson for 19 years, including last year in Imotski, Dugopolje and Dubrovnik, after a long break, during which Perkovic still put his family in the first place and put their appearances on waiting for some time. Because of this, he may not be surprised that his audience wished him so much and that and in Imotski sang and played in front of nearly 25,000 people, in Dugopolje in front of 35,000, and on the Dubrovnik Stradun, twenty thousand fans were bolded into Dubrovnik because of Thompson had arrived more. Bilic also followed the concert pace in the footsteps even though his first and true love is still a composition of the stimulus. It is a heavy metal band that sings exclusively in English. The only thing in the Croatian language is their hit « Omiš pirate », which is dedicated to the same name of the Moto Club from Omis. In 2010, they won Split at the St-@rt festival.

We tried to contact Bilic about the whole new situation with Thompson’s associates, but to no avail. The drummer was not in the mood to make statements. Thompson’s management team, at least for now, avoids saying something specifically about this topic. There was no answer to our inquiries until the conclusion of the number. The question that hangs in the air is: will Bilic sit again at the drums again or is this a definitive end?

It is certain that Ivica Bilic is not anyone. It is an extremely respected musician and a person who leaves her work a distinctive and deep mark on metalians. Ten years ago, he made a guest appearance in the video « Don’t Know Who To Pray To Anymore » by American Ron Ron Bumblefoot Thal. He was filmed at Diocletian’s Palace and the Klis Fortress, where the hit TV series « Game of Thrones » was also filmed. Ivica has been playing with the cult American Guns n ‘Roses last summer with a cultural guitarist who has been playing with the cult American band Guns N’ Roses.

– Bumblefoot loves Split and often comes to our guests. He is delighted with the people and the city and wants to know all about the history of Split, and the year before we recorded together, he even led the guitar workshop with us. So we met – Ivica said in 2015 for 24 hours.

And in his younger days he listened to Gunse. His favorite is the first three albums, and a gig with Axla Rose and the band guys would be his dream come true, he says. Then Thompson told us that everyone from the band went to the Guns concert in Split Arena, and Thompson was the favorite song « November Rain ».

Let’s go back to the present. Social networks and sidelines circulate and rumors about possible disagreements caused by high expectations ahead of the hippodrome. It is not rumored whether the band of Croatian Rose will climb with Mark on the stage in Zagreb, with which he has made the most listened song in the last year, « If you don’t know what it was ». It is said that there is no agreement on a joint performance at the Hippodrome. Mirko Gudelj, Thompson’s associate to whom he entrusted the main word organized by the July concert in Zagreb, to questions about whether there were any disagreements to us very much anxiously told us:

– Absolutely no! I don’t know where you come from. Thompson and Croatian roses are friends, colleagues, cooperate, help each other. There is no quarrel. As for the concert, the concert is Marko Perkovic Thompson, which you are trying now – Gudelj eager.

In Imotski and Dugopolje, at the last big appearances, Thompson with Croatian roses was thrown by the audience in a trans song that the Croatian handball team had traveled into the unofficial anthem of many young generations, which, in all likelihood, listen to Thompson more than their parents’ generation.

Silence causes restlessness

The audience was in the last appearances, even on the one on Ban Josip Jelacic Square during the welcome of our handball players after the World Cup, from which they returned with silver awards, reacted euphorically, and the energy on the stage was – as those who were there – « unforgettable. » Thompson also threw thousands of gathered in the trance.

But on the eve of the biggest career concert, changes in the lineup and silence from the headquarters cause discomfort. Can such earthquakes affect the preparations for the performance that should go into the history of Croatian music? One thing is for sure, the Thompson audience expects the maximum, and all the eyes are now on the hippodrome. The departure of Ivica Bilic marks the end of an era, but also raises the question of who will take over the drums at the concert of the century.