The band grew up in Udine, Italy 1994: their first intention was to use the power of traditional music to make people dance and party: the musicians were all convinced that folk music was becoming too intellectual and was losing touch with people. Their name, “Bad Weeds” in the Friulian language, is a comment on the bond between the band and its homeland. They began playing all over (over 500 concerts in 14 years) beginning from pubs and small villages fairs and concluding with big festivals in Italy (Folkest, Onde Mediterranee, Etnica, Ariano Folk Festival, Mediterran Festival), Europe (Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Sweden, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Spain) and South America (Argentina and Uruguay).

Almost all the songs are written by the band. The lyrics are in Friulian, Italian and Slovenian (the three languages spoken in the region). The music uses a mix of traditional (violin, mandolin, accordion, flutes, horns) and modern (electric guitar, drums) instruments and is very suitable both for dancing and for listening: the influences come from every corner of the world but the most characteristic aspect of the band is the mixing of punk rock attitude with popular roots and lyrics.

In 1998 they won “Premi Friul” (Friulian Festival of new musical trends) with the blues-experimental project “Croz Sclizzaz” together with the Friulian poet and singer Fabian Riz. In 2003 the band traveled first to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Cordoba and San Juan), then to Serbia (Refract Festival in Belgrade, Pancevo and Kraguievac). In 2004 Arbe Garbe won the “Targa Deganutti” for the best album in the Friuli Region with Iubilaeum and in November the band traveled to Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia and Austria. In 2005 they took part in the 1st Festival of Friulian Music in South America: 12 concerts in the main cities of Argentina and Uruguay. In 2006 they won the 1st prize of the Friulian Film Festival and the Trieste Film Festival with the videoclip of the song “Puar Beppin” and traveled to Spain (Bilbao and Vigo) and in Sweden they participated in the Liet Lavlut, the main European festival for songs written in minority languages. In 2007 they opened the summer cultural season of the city of Udine with a live show in Piazza Duomo acclaimed by 3000 enthusiastic spectators and in November they flew to Australia for a three date tour that confirmed their ability to warm up every kind of audience in every situation: with Arbe Garbe every concert is a party!

During these 12 years several appearances on national broadcast stations (Rai 2 and 3, both Radio and Television): Caterpillar, Fuorigiri, Follie rotolanti, La Storia Siamo Noi, Nu Roads. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.