In As a duo, Lollobrigida performed for the first time at a bigger public concert in June in the student club KSET , as an opening band for German trash-style musician Mambo Kurt , attracting immediately a pronounced interest within Zagreb's underground-music audience. In the original lineup there were Ida Prester and Natalija Dimicevski singing and playing bass-guitar on top of their computer-generated music matrix.
In June Lollobrigida performed at the third Zagreb Pride. Lollobrigida's first single, "Party", was released in September soon becoming a pretty well-accepted hit, rendering the underground phenomenon into a name known to many, first in Croatia and latter on in the neighboring countries. Sizeable covering in Croatian media, involving print, radio, and television, release of an anti-holiday single "Unhappy Christmas", and a performance at the big rock-concert Fiju Briju in Zagreb all enabled Lollobrigida to keep a high level of interest in the audience till the release of their debut album Cartoon Explosion , in May The girls have promoted the album in the club KSET again.
The introductory band at the latter concert was a hip-hop duo Bitcharke na travi from Serbia , Beograd. In Lollobrigida transformed to some extent their musical and stage-performing concept. Natalija left the band. Several instrumentalists, playing keyboards, guitar and bass, joined the band adding a new sound quality to the electronic matrix background.
Unlike Ida, the band founder and the Lollobrigida constant, other band members were changing rather frequently. The prefix VIS has been also added to the band name. A sort of sentimental homage to pop-rock music of socialistic times. During that year Lollobrigida started working on their new album, 'Lollobrigida Incorporated', finally released in May , following the promo-concert taken place in Zagreb club Tvornica.
In the single 'Bubblegum boy' was released. In the band increased its popularity by releasing the single and video spot 'Moj decko je gay' meaning 'My boyfriend is gay'. In , a few months before a release of the new album, the single and a video-spot 'Miss Right and Mrs.
