Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm

*pffff* Offspring, Tote Hosen and Snow Patrol are pretty boring, but Squarepusher, Donots and Coldcut are cool…

I seriously hope that none of these bands are one of the reminding headliners!

Comment by Niek - April 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm

These names are OK. But I’m still missing a band that can be compared with REM, Maiden & Jamiriquai! Please let it be Radiohead, U2 or Metallica… Hopefully Radiohead ……

Comment by Steven - April 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm

Not Snow Patrol

Comment by szigetist - April 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm

The Kills also confirmed on the dutch sziget site [url]http://www.szigetfestival.nl/programma/mainstage[/url]
apparently the dutch are always one step ahead

Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Some cool News from the dutch Sziget site:

- The Kills (strangely announced for mainstage + Wan2. I hope they don’t mean The Killers for mainstage again!!!)
- Khaled (World Music Stage)
- Digitalism (Wan2)
- N&SK (Wan2)

In general it looks like this right now:

Mainstage (ca. 10 more bands to be announced + Day-0):

- Snow patrol
- The Kills
- Prodigy
- Fatboy Slim
- Pendulum
- Placebo
- Ska-P
- Bloc Party
- Klaxons
- Ting Tings
- Offspring
- Die Toten Hosen
- Coldcut
- Squarepusher
- Backyard Babies

WAN2:

- De Staat
- Expetriate
- Donots
- The Kills
- Digitalism
- N&SK

World Music Stage:

- Brotherhood of Brass (Markovic + Frank London)
- Khaled
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Haydamaky
- Miloopa
- Speed Caravan
- Calexico
- Figli Di Madre Ignota
- So Kalmery
- Tiken Jah Fakoly
- 08001
- Blasted Mechanism
- Matatu

Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 pm

White Lies are listed on a poster published on the Sziget Facebook site…!

Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 pm

BTW: I think Rise Against are pretty much off the billing!

There is no Sziget date anymore on their homepage or MySpace site and they are fully booked from August 12th till 15th.

There is a small chance for a show on the 16th, but I guess chances are very small!

Comment by baron - April 4th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

16?? On the 16th there will be no concerts. You have to leave the area until 10AM that day.

Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 5th, 2009 at 12:37 am

Nope: the 16th is the last official day of the festival. You have to leave on the 17th!

Comment by baron - April 5th, 2009 at 10:13 am

Mellowmaniac: Yes youre right, so lets hope!!

Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 5th, 2009 at 11:37 am

Okay – I have another speculation to discuss:

Die Toten Hosen do have C.J. Ramone (the bass player of The Ramones) as support for most of their August concert and festival dates:

- 12.08.
- 21.08.
- 22.08.
- 28.08.
- 29.08.

This at least makes him available for a Sziget show – even though I have no idea if the organizers find it intriguing to have him at Sziget…

Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 5th, 2009 at 11:45 am

And another far shot:

I know that Stone Temple Pilots are asking european tour promoters for offers… They definitely want to play Europe, but no timeframe is confirmed yet!

Comment by NorwichSzigetFan - April 5th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

The following sentence appears on the (translated into English by Google) latest announcement of the line-up on the Hungarian Sziget official site.

In August, the Island will be a guest at the U2 No Line On The Horizon turnéján world movement, based in Glasgow, Northern Ireland band Snow Patrol.

Does this mean U2 are playing or is this just a poor translation by google or was this a very muddled announcement for Snow Patrol?

Comment by Mellowmaniac - April 5th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

I guess it means that Snow Patrol are on tour as support of U2 at their No Line On The Horizon tour…!?

Comment by tool - April 5th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

U2 wont come. It means that SP is on tour with U2.

Comment by http://u2-line-horizon.blogspot.com/ - April 23rd, 2009 at 10:41 am

No Line On The Horizon Review…

No Line on the Horizon is the twelfth studio disc by Irish rock group U2, released on 27 February 2009. The album is U2’s first since 2004, the longest period between studio albums in the band’s career. The material was originally intended to be rele…

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