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Here’s a rumor that we told you about a while ago, that is now confirmed. Many of you metalheads going to Sziget this year will be happy to hear that Meshuggah will play this year’s Sziget Festival. The news is confirmed on their official site. Meshuggah will play Sziget on August 16th.

 

Dancehall reggae artist Ziggi will be at Sziget this year. Ziggi will play Sziget on the 15th of August, at the Main Stage.

 

Thanks to our reader Hugo Renken, we found out that Little Cow, a very interesting Hungarian band, will be at Sziget this year. It is confirmed on their MySpace page (visit it to check out their songs). They will play Sziget on August 13th, starting at 23:00 hours, on the Aranyi Aszok Stage.

As many of you might have noticed, we have a new section, called “Programme 2008″. There you can find the festival programme. If any changes occur, you will find them there.

Good news for drum & bass fans coming to Sziget this year. TC will play the festival. You don’t have to take our word for it. Check out the MySpace page…

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 Update: Jose Gonzales will be playing Sziget on August 17th, according to his MySpace page. Thanx Hugo for the heads-up!



More good news on the confirmed artists front. Swedish singer-songwriter of Argentinian descent Jose Gonzalez will play Sziget Festival this year. We don’t have a date for his concert yet, but the French Sziget site has a temporary programme of the acts, that you can take a look at here.

The Hungarian Sziget site confirms a few more names that we already told you about, here on Sziget News – Babyshambles, Pendulum, Millencolin and Alanis Morissette will definetly be at the festival this year.

Since we didn’t get to see Leonard Cohen at Sziget this year, the organizers have prepared another surprise. Singer-songwriter Adam Green, formerly of The Moldy Peaches, will play Sziget this year. Another piece of good news is that the French Sziget site confirms Babyshambles‘ presence at Sziget this year.