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"Liberation Day" at Sydney Film Festival

Slovenian music band Laibach, part of Slovenia's shock art collective, NSK, performing in Trbovlje

Slovenian music band Laibach, part of Slovenia's shock art collective, NSK, performing in Trbovlje Source: Jure Makovec/AFP/Getty Images

Laibach, world famous as an industrial rock band was formed in 1980 in the Slovenian mining town of Trbovlje. They recently made history by becoming the first ever western band to tour in North Korea. A film titled Liberation Day tells the story of this historic visit to that very closed country and is being aired at this year's Sydney Film Festival. Laibach band member, Ivan Novak had more to say about the actual tour as well as how the film came about.



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