The French duo that will play Sziget Festival this year on August 17th, has teamed up with design group Surface2Air to create their personal clothing line, inspired by their own wardrobe. You can already get them at a few retailers (jackets are 790 euros), as well as on Surface2Air’s website… If you want to [ Read More ]
Archive for July, 2008
According to the French Sziget site newsletter, camping tickets are running out soon. So get yours real soon, if you are planning to stay on the island.
This year’s Sziget will offer a lot for people interested in high profile culture. You will be able to watch 35 theatre and ballet performances, and Hungarian museums will sponsor 12 events. The festival’s stages will host theatre events by Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Stockholm 59 Degrees North, Hofesh Shechter and the Vietnamese National Water [ Read More ]
Bad news for people hoping for a last minute announcement of Rage Against The Machine playing Sziget’s Main Stage this year. The last band on the Main Stage, playing on August 15, at 16:30, will be The Cribs.
 If you want to win one of the 10 Sziget Festival passes that budacast.hu is giving away, all you have to do is to follow the instructions below: 1. Listen to the latest episodes of Budacast and answer the 6 trivia questions over the next 6 weeks. 2. Send an audio or text comment [ Read More ]
Is your backpack ready? Have you bought the tickets? Have you thought about the acts you really want to see? Are these acts overlapping? And if so, which ones and who are you going to choose? How about accommodation? Is staying on the festival grounds in the tent better than living in the city? Szigetnews [ Read More ]
Gary Holt, songwriter and lead guitarist of EXODUS: “After many years in the planning and discussion stage, we have finally completed the re-recording of “Bonded By Blood.†We have decided to call it “Let There Be Blood†and it is our way of paying homage to Paul Baloff by showing how relevant these songs we [ Read More ]
Amanda Somerville, Epica’s replacement vocalist, has posted a new video blog from the Avantasia world tour, that you can watch below. Avantasia will rock Sziget on August 13, starting at 21:30 hours, at the Hammerworld Stage. [szigetnews]pZqCEDe-eyA[/szigetnews]
Still no news about the last headliner and if there will actually be one. Still, we stumbled across an article about Hungarian band Büdösök on The Little Black Egg, that says Sziget is “a giant, boring rock fest stuffed to the gills with bands a good fifteen years past their sell-by date.”. What do you [ Read More ]