There’s still no news about who the last act playing on the Main Stage on August 15th will be and whether there will be one. Until we find out exactly who that will be, you can watch a video of a very interesting band playing Sziget Festival this year, Kultur Shock. The band will play [ Read More ]
Archive for June, 2008
For all of you metalheads going to Sziget this year to see Meshuggah, here’s some live footage of the band playing at Hellfest, three days ago. [szigetnews]BONafvQX8IQ[/szigetnews]
We’ve had a lot of feedback from you about the line-up poll and most of you (51% – 188 votes) thought it could have been better this year. Still, a closer look at the Main Stage schedule on the official site will rise a question mark. There is nothing programmed on Friday August 15th, in [ Read More ]
[szigetnews]jTYnSmStc2Y[/szigetnews] Here’s a video of the Sex Pistols from the Isle of Wight Festival, just a few days ago. This way you can get prepared for them… The Sex Pistols will play Sziget on August 15th.
 We’ve had the poll on the site for a few days now, and 330 visitors voted. The results were a bit surprising. Out of 330 votes, 163 visitors (49%) thought this year’s Sziget line-up could have been better, while 18% (60 voters) think it’s good and 16% (52 voters) think it’s very good. On [ Read More ]
 “There are none of the niceties of contemporary festivals. It feels lawless”. That’s what Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos says about Sziget in an interesting Guardian article about Europe’s summer Festivals. The same article says that the festival, a week-long party on an island on the Danube is known as one of the wildest in [ Read More ]
The line-up for the A38 Stage, the one featuring Eastern European acts, has been posted here. There are quite a few interesting names, including Romanian band Kumm and Modeselektor. Check out their MySpace pages for videos and music.
Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky has vetoed the Budapest Assembly cityscape comitee’s decision made last month to allow the Sziget Festival to use public areas free of charge for three years, according to caboodle.hu. Committee chairman Attila Ughy has said that the agreement was signed with the festival, and the city could be sued if anyone [ Read More ]
Since the line-up is final (maybe there will be minor modifications, but nothing important), Szigetnews would like to know what you think about it. So please use the poll below to tell everyone what you think about it. What do you think about this year’s Sziget line-up? It exceeded my expectations Very good Good Could [ Read More ]
Another interesting name for this year’s festival are electronic synthpop band MGMT. MGMT will play Sziget on August 13th, on the Main Stage.