Music
Punk rock from Wrocław, Poland. I write the lyrics, sing and make sure a show is an event, not just a set being played.
How it started
I picked up a guitar at thirteen. I started 4dziki in 2001, back in high school. With the first lineup, between 2001 and 2004, we recorded eleven songs in the studio.
Then everyone went their own way. In 2009 I moved to Zielona Góra and played rhythm guitar in Dormant Dissident, with whom I recorded the EP “DDemo” (2016) and the album “KnightMares” (2018). After coming back to Wrocław I played in the heavy metal band Panzerhund. I came back to 4dziki in 2018, and since the band got back together with a steady lineup in 2020 we've played more than a hundred shows.
I only started learning to sing in 2022. I thought I could sing until I played two shows in a row.
Kharkiv
From June 2023 to January 2024 I lived in Kharkiv. At the end of 2023 we collected more than two hundred Christmas parcels and I drove them to children whose homes had been destroyed by Russian attacks. They got them for Christmas.
That changed the way I see why we play and who this music is for.
The Spanish road: from Netflix to Aupa
2021. I'm watching “Money Heist”, I hear “Bella Ciao”, I dig deeper and find Boikot, a band from Madrid, and their song “Sin Tiempo Para Respirar”. I tell the guys we have to play it. I had no idea back then that in Spain they're a legend: formed in 1987, with tours in Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and Germany.
2021 to 2024. We play that cover, and later it turns into our own song “Poniedziałek”. Every time, I tag Boikot in our stories. Once, twice, three times, for three years. Eventually they write back.
2024, Poland. I bring Boikot to the ZEW Się Budzi festival and pick them up from the airport myself. We play together and I sing one verse in Polish (video). That's the start of a friendship with Juankar, Boikot's bass player, that's still going today.
November 2024, Galicia. I fly to see Juankar in Ourense. Castañazo Rock, three thousand people, a guest spot with Boikot. For a week he drives me around Galicia and La Rioja.
May 2025, Viña Rock. We drive a camper van to one of the biggest punk festivals in the world. I play a guest spot with Boikot on the Nagrita stage, a verse in Polish in front of a crowd counted in hundreds of thousands (video). That's where I meet Kaos Urbano, Kaotiko, Kamikazes, La Raíz, La Fúmiga and Río Propaganda.
Summer 2025, Rabolagartija. Another guest spot with Boikot, this time near Alicante. I meet Marcus Rubio, the festival's organizer.
April 2026, a studio outside Madrid. We record “Agarra Este Momento”. I wrote the song and talked musicians whose records I grew up on into singing on it in Spanish: Juankar from Boikot, David SKU from Kaos Urbano and Kata from Kamikazes. Three bands that are legends in Spain, on one song by a band from Wrocław. The full story of the song, with photos from the session, is here.
May 2026, radio. Jorge Garrido plays us on GarridoRock in Madrid in his “Descubriendo Bandas” segment, tells listeners how to find us on streaming platforms and talks about the collaboration. Our first airplay on Spanish radio (show from 54:15).
August 2026, Aupa Lumbreiras. We play with the whole band as the first Polish band in the history of the festival. It's a cult Spanish punk festival founded in 1994, which came back in Villena after a twelve-year break, with more than fifty bands on four stages.
I have a Boikot tattoo on my arm, next to “VR 25” and “RABO”. My own way of keeping a record of what happened.
Releases
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | “Dzi.kowisko” | first studio recording, Kurnik studio in Wrocław |
| 2020 | “Woodstock-Narniostock Live” | live recording |
| 2021 | “CieszFanów” | winner of a festival band contest |
| 2023 | EP “Ku Chwale Dziczyzny” | first EP after getting back together |
| 2025 | single “Wolny” | |
| 2026 | “Poniedziałek” | violin by Juanan from Boikot |
| 2026 | “Wszystko jest proste” | music video made entirely with AI tools |
| 2026 | “Agarra Este Momento” | with Boikot, Kaos Urbano and Kamikazes |
I write the lyrics, and ten of my songs are registered with ZAiKS, the Polish authors' society. Outside 4dziki I've recorded with Dormant Dissident and Panzerhund. Everything in one place: 4dziki on Spotify.
Where we've played
Festivals in Poland: Cieszanów Rock Festiwal, ZEW Się Budzi (2022 and 2024), Czochraj Bobra (2022, and 2025 as headliner, around two thousand people), Bangarang (2022 and 2024), the Punky Reggae Live finals in Jarocin and Dukla, FuckOFF Festiwal, Rock & Beer Festival in Sulęcin, Motozlot Polanów.
Supporting: Lady Pank, Hunter, Farben Lehre, Strachy Na Lachy, Talco.
Spain: Castañazo Rock 2024, Viña Rock 2025, Rabolagartija 2025 (guest spots with Boikot), Aupa Lumbreiras 2026 with the whole band.
Wrocław: Czasoprzestrzeń, Stary Klasztor (five times, including with Dr Misio, Łydka Grubasa, Pull The Wire and Kobranocka), Alive, Łącznik, Niebo Cafe, Punky Reggae Live Wrocław 2022 and 2024.
Music videos and film
I direct and edit the band's music videos:
- “Pandemian” (2023), with animation by Lubomir Arsov, used with the author's permission
- “Poniedziałek” (2026)
- “Wszystko jest proste” (2026), made entirely with AI tools, submitted to the AI International Music Video Festival in Hollywood and to AI.motion
- “Agarra Este Momento” (2026)
The whole channel: youtube.com/@4DZIKI.
On top of that: multi-camera recordings of our shows, animations synced to the songs and the band's video archive from 2021 to 2026.
Off stage
At our shows we run a campaign called “Trade a Marker for a Piggy” (“Wymień mazaka na świniaka”): we collect school supplies for kids in children's homes and hand them over to Sister Pia of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth in Wrocław. We've also played charity shows, including for WOŚP (the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity) and for Zuzia, a girl with SMA, and raised money for the “Iskierka” association.
In 2026 the Polish Patent Office registered the “4dziki” trademarks, word and logo. The band has a letter of support from the Polish Institute in Madrid and a recommendation from Mariusz Chrząstek, holder of the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture “Gloria Artis”.