Suites africaines, a very interesting act from Guinea, combining free jazz with African sounds, have confirmed their presence at this year’s Sziget Festival on their official MySpace page. Their music is quite interesting, as you can very well see by checking out the video below. Suites africaines will be at Sziget Festival 2009 on August [ Read More ]
Archive for March, 2009
Here’s a video of Pendulum Live at Radio One Big Weekend, playing Blood Sugar, just to get an idea of what’s coming… Pendulum will play Sziget Festival 2009 on August 14.
Don’t tell anyone, but we just heard a rumor that Sigur Ros might play at this year’s Sziget Festival and that the information is listed in this month’s edition of Hungarian Magazine WAN2 magazine (thanks, Tibor). Szigetnews reader Erik is telling us some more great news. He says that Amy Winehouse is also listed in [ Read More ]
The information has just been confirmed on their MySpace page, as well as their official website. Pendulum will play Live at this year’s Sziget Festival on August 14. They promised to return last year, when they couldn’t play Sziget Festival due to unforeseen circumstances. Now their promise has been fulfilled. We hope this news will [ Read More ]
The dates for the U2 tour have been announced today. No Sziget date yet, but who knows? As our reader Mellowmaniac noticed, a zero-day appearance is quite possible, since the date is still open.
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it as many times as possible – the Szigetnews readers are the best. This time it’s Szigetnews reader Mussi that found some very interesting rumors on the Guano Apes message boards. We all knew the band has reunited for a few festival appearances this summer, but what you [ Read More ]
According to the Sziget France forum admin, the first names will be officially announced in the week starting on March 23rd. But we’ll keep you posted on rumors and confirmations until then. If you heard anything we haven’t, the contact page is at your disposal, as always. Or you can leave a comment.
One of our most active readers, Mellowmaniac, has gathered a few more important acts that have confirmed the V and Beautiful Days Festivals and could be a part of the Sziget Festival 2009 line-up. Here’s what he sent us this time (between brackets are dates that are already booked): Lamb (07.-09.08 + 21.-23.08) The Pogues [ Read More ]
It seems that Fatboy Slim will be the first confirmed Main Stage headliner for this year’s Sziget Festival. We hope this will be officially confirmed as soon as possible.Until then, here’s a video of Fatboy Slim performing for 250.000 people at Brighton Beach. Update: sziget2009.com have confirmed it with Fatboy Slim’s management.
Some rumors seem to suggest that the blues legend, that has a new album out, “Bad For You Baby”, and is touring Europe this summer, might be one of this year’s Sziget Festival headliners. And it seems quite possible, since he already has confirmed the Rock of Ages Festival in Germany, on August 1. More [ Read More ]