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The profile · researched 30 October 2026
Baby Lasagna after the storm: the Eurovision runner-up who went back to metal
Marko Purišić turned a joke stage name and a song about leaving home into Croatia's best Eurovision result, then spent two and a half years in public finding out what it cost. His second album, End the Party, released on 23 October 2026, is the heavier, more bruised record that followed — and the tour behind it reaches the UK in November.
Umag, Manntra, and a name found while looking for water
Marko Purišić was born in Rijeka on 5 July 1995 and grew up in Umag, on the Istrian coast, in a family of educators. He studied public relations, tourism and sound engineering before music became the job, and the practical half of that education shows in how closely he still controls his own records.
From 2011 to 2022 he played guitar in Manntra, the Croatian folk-metal band — a decade of van tours and support slots rather than any kind of overnight arrival. He left to work under his own name in 2023, and the first Baby Lasagna single, IG Boy, appeared that October. The name itself carries nothing: he has said it arrived at random while he was walking near Novigrad looking for something to drink.
The influences he names are easy to hear once pointed out — Rammstein for the mechanical weight, Twenty One Pilots for the confessional pop structure, Electric Callboy for the knowing collision of breakdowns and dance music. What holds it together is that the songs are almost always about him.
547 points
Rim Tim Tagi Dim was released on 12 January 2024 and won Dora, Croatia's national selection, on 25 February. It is a song about a young man leaving a village for the city, dressed as a techno-metal stomp, and it did not behave like a normal Eurovision entry.
It won its semi-final on 7 May 2024 with 177 points. In the final on 11 May it finished second with 547 — 210 from the juries and 337 from the public, which it won outright. That remains Croatia's best result since the country first entered as an independent state in 1993. The song reached number one at home, entered the UK singles chart at 36 on 17 May 2024, and went top ten across Austria, Finland, Greece and Sweden.
The haul of prizes included the Marcel Bezençon Press Award, first place in the OGAE poll, Best Music Video at the Eurovision Awards and Song of the Year at the 2025 Zlatni Studio awards. The Croatian government voted him a €50,000 reward; he redirected it to hospitals. The dance became a TikTok fixture performed by politicians, which is roughly the point at which a career stops being a career and becomes a national event.
DMNS & Mosquitoes, and a year of rooms getting bigger
The debut album DMNS & Mosquitoes arrived on 7 February 2025 and tried to hold everything at once — pop-punk, techno, house, metal — which is both why it travelled and why the reaction split. Fan aggregators carried a fair amount of disappointment alongside the praise, much of it the complaint that the record undersold what the live band could obviously do.
The touring told a different story. The Meow Back Tour logged dozens of shows across Europe, settling into a fourteen-song set that opened on Hypocritical and almost always ended, after an encore, on Don't Hate Yourself, but Don't Love Yourself Too Much. A near-sold-out Melkweg in Amsterdam on 11 April 2025, with the Swiss band Barbie Sailers opening, ran about an hour and included acoustic detours through Take Me Home, Country Roads and I'll Be There for You, flanked by fog, red strobing poles and crocheted cats. He had cancelled the Paris show the night before through illness and played anyway. A reviewer there called it funny, loud and exciting, and asked for more material.
He also returned to the Eurovision stage in 2025 to perform #eurodab with Käärijä, the Finnish runner-up from 2023 — a neat acknowledgement that the contest's most durable exports are now the people who lost it.
End the Party: the record about the aftermath
The second album, End the Party, came out on 23 October 2026: ten tracks, and a decisive move away from the debut's eclecticism towards heavy guitars, hard electronics and modern metal. Purišić describes it as stormborn, written during what he calls the most hectic, demanding and confusing period of their lives. The subject matter is pressure, exposure, exhaustion, self-criticism and the comment section.
The singles map the route. The title track arrived on 16 February 2026, its video directed by his wife, Elizabeta. Sedated followed on 5 May and is explicitly about panic attacks. Face On Your Phone, released on 12 August, is the angriest of the three: riffs, shouted vocals and a breakdown built for a pit, aimed at anonymous abuse. He framed it as a fighting song for anyone in the same position, and tied it to his own experience of what he described as collective bullying across two and a half years in public, which echoed being bullied as a child.
The album was made with the people he plays with — drummer Matija Klaj, bassist Martin Purišić and DJ Roko Josipović — and the Croatian press has noted how much that shows, the production rawer and more immediate than the debut's. A review in Glazba.hr singled out My Show for its symphonic heft, Would U as a ballad in the vein of In Flames at their commercial peak, and Wake Up for folding a hip-hop beat into a radio-sized chorus, concluding that the record settles the question of whether he was a one-off.
Standing, late 2026
Purišić has been candid that he does not want the level of recognition Eurovision brought. In a recent interview with Croatia's Showbuzz he said he misses anonymity and dislikes being recognised, and that while international success opened business doors, not all of the offers matched what he wanted — he turned collaborations down and abandoned projects after starting them.
Commercially and live, the position is solid rather than stratospheric, and in the region it is close to unassailable. The 2026 festival run took in RockLive at Koprivnica on 26 July, Sziget in Budapest on 14 August in a 55-minute evening slot, Zemun Fest in Belgrade on 23 August, Kastel Rock Fest in Banja Luka in September — where he closed the opening night on a bill that also carried Jethro Tull and Laibach — and an open-air show on the main square in Samobor on 16 October, a week before the album landed.
The headline run behind End the Party is eighteen dates across the UK and Europe, from Legend in Milan on 15 November to M. Music Club in Bratislava on 6 December, with Manchester's Club Academy on 21 November and the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on 22 November — the largest London headline show of his career. Two Croatian homecomings close the year, Pogon in Rijeka on 18 December and Boogaloo in Zagreb on 19 December, before a northern leg in February 2027 taking in Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius.
The show, now
A Baby Lasagna headline show currently runs around an hour to seventy minutes and is built around thirteen songs with no slack in it. The 2026 sets open on Hypocritical or IG BOY, move early into the new material — Sedated third, Face on Your Phone and the title track in the middle third — keep the Croatian-language Beskonačna osveta 2 and the Käärijä collaboration #eurodab as pivots, and leave Rim Tim Tagi Dim and Don't Hate Yourself, but Don't Love Yourself Too Much to the end; on the Meow Back Tour that closer was the encore at roughly half the shows. Staging is cheap-looking on purpose and effective: fog, hard red side lighting, individual spots for each player, props including crocheted cats, and Purišić in printed shirts and chains rather than any kind of costume. The festival shows have been louder and more physical than the records suggest — at Kastel Rock Fest in Banja Luka in September 2026 the front barrier was taken out, there was a flamethrower and a wall of death, and he went into the crowd; at RockLive in Koprivnica on 26 July he spent the set jumping, to what one Croatian write-up called complete euphoria in the front rows. Guitars and rhythm section read harder live than on tape, and reviewers consistently note the between-songs manner — loose, funny, direct — as much as the volume. Support on the 2025 European run came from the Swiss band Barbie Sailers; no openers have been announced for the November and December 2026 dates, and Croatian festival bills have paired him with local acts rather than a fixed touring support.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · readdork.com · rocksound.tv · muzika.hr · glazba.hr · melomaniacsmag.com · setlist.fm
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