As we already suspected, the news that Rise Against won’t be at Sziget this year, after all, is now confirmed by our reader tool. He wrote an e-mail to their management, asking about this and the reply he got was the following: They are not coming- it ended up not working out! Sorry, we will [ Read More ]
Archive for April, 2009
Sziget Managing Director Gerendai Karoly has said in a press conference (the press statement – Hungarian – can be read here) that students will get up to 50% off on their tickets, if they go in groups of up to 46 people (so gather your friends and visit this site for the details). Also, there [ Read More ]
Another name is confirmed on the Sziget festival 2009 last.fm page. We’re talking about MC Sgt Pokes, “MC and host for DMZ, London’s famed dubstep night. Coming through with his MC skills from the jungle days, Pokes is established as one of the leading Mcs in the dubstep scene, courtesy of his dulcit bubbling with [ Read More ]
Another interesting name for this year’s Sziget Festival is confirmed on the official Dutch Sziget site. We are talking about French act Birdy Nam Nam. You can listen to some of their songs here. (thank you, Hugo). According to the Dutch site, they will be playing the main stage.
After being one of the first bands to announce their presence at this year’s Sziget (the news article still is on their official site), it seems that something happened along the way and Rise Against won’t be at this year’s Sziget. None of the official confirmations in the last few days mention them, and now [ Read More ]
The Dutch Sziget Festival site lists even more names for this year’s Sziget Festival. It seems like today is announcement day… There, we have N&SK, a band that many wanted to see this year, Cheb Kaled(at the World Music Stage), Digitalism and The Kills. Quite interesting acts, let’s see what the next few days bring. [ Read More ]
New official names have been confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival, here, on the Hungarian official site. The most important are The Offspring, that are now 100% confirmed, for those of you that didn’t believe us , Snow Patrol and Die Toten Hosen. But wait, that’s not all. Ethno-ska Ukrainian outfit Haydamaky is also confirmed [ Read More ]
Szigetnews reader Kevin had quite an interesting proposal, in order to make the organizers more aware of what the people that go to Sziget every year want. Here’s what he suggested: Let’s do a little survey. Everyone give 3 names that you want to see at sziget the most (and that are possible at sziget [ Read More ]
…or just an April Fools’ joke? The Sziget Festival Last.fm page lists Metallica for Sziget Festival 2009, but we don’t know what to believe just yet. We’ll just have to wait for an official confirmation and see… They are available during that time, according to their official site, so who knows? Still, just a joke, [ Read More ]