Astonishingly sharp short video where a radio reporter from national Croatian radio HRT1 came to interview Free Traveling Radio Crew, but ended up being interviewed herself.

Putujući radio visited FUZIJA (Festival of Artists, Scientists and Activists) in Valpovo, East Croatia. This is only festival of this type in Valpovo, small town of some 10 000 inhabitants.Putujući radio was set at the bank of river Drava, where a Fuzija camp was organized. Benjamin climbed the tree and set up the antenna. Even if we knew that trees are not the best places for putting up the antenna, we didn’t have no choice. When radio was connected we tested it. It could be heard all over the beach.

People started pulling up their cars and finding station 99.3 FM. Some brought their CDs and organizer brought beer tap and beans were cooked for everyone. Local kids made up a poster for radio. Suddenly carriages from local horse farm appeared so the whole situation became more picturesque.

Festival was held in old castle in Valpove and during the night local bands performed, but also many musicians from the region, including Montenegro and Serbia.

Traveling radio took a big hunk of work and went to support Tabor Film festival ‘07 in Gornja Stubica at castel Oršić.

A peasant uprising in 16th century that was lead by peasant general Matija Gubec is depicted in exhibition in Oršić castle museum. In socialist system he was a figure symbolizing revolt to ruling class so government financed making a huge statue depicting his hand rising towards sky, standing in rags. Behind him there are scenes from peasant uprising battles. Uprising was eventually brought to the end by joined army of different rulers in the area.

Film festival showed to be a hard case for setting up Free radio as everyone is concentrated on consuming movies. It is hard to involve people in whole process of setting up the radio and working on it. Some technical difficulties didn’t help also (15 watt booster died, and transmitter didn’t want to work for first 2 hours). Eventually transmitter worked out and we had ‘castle radio’ that was joined by kids excursion from Montenegro and some of the festival stuff.

Free radio became truly a part of the festival when technicians made a mistake during start of the evening projections. People were sitting in front of the screen and movie starts but instead of the sound of the movie a sound of free radio bursts over big speakers. One sentence over microphone: ”This is free radio” and technician got the mistake. Worth while intervention from radio to film.

Many thanks to Benjamin from south Africa that helped with antenna and to organizers Gabriela, Anja, Nenad and Lukša for having a radio at the festival and to Sky for borrowing nice mixer.

Thnx to Joe, Kristina, Igor, Stjepan and all other people from Free festival we had lots of fun hosting singers, readers and grendpa and his flute.