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The Agenda Info awards for 2009, awarded according to the votes of 14005 people in the Netherlands and Flanders, have been announced.

Sziget has won the Best International Festival Award for 2009.

Check out the rest of the winners here.

After playing Sziget 2009, it seems that 08001 will be at Sziget this year, too. This wonderful news is confirmed on the 08001 official website (thanks, Fantomas).

In case you don’t know who 08001 are, we’ll just tell you that they are quite a very interesting project, combining the inspiration of a line-up of artists from all around the world, that meet in Barcelona to create their music.

08001 live shows mix the performances of a large number of artists with a visual screen show.

08001 are set to play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 15.

We have some really great news for all of you punk fans going to Sziget this year. Legendary punk rock band Toy Dolls is set to play at this year’s Sziget Festival.

This great news is confirmed on their official website. Toy Dolls are set to play on Sziget Festival 2010’s Main Stage, on August 11. If you don’t believe us, check out “New Dates” in the “Tour” section of the Toy Dolls official website.

Orquestra Buena Vista Social Club have confirmed their appearance at this year’s Sziget Festival on their record company website.

They will play Sziget on August 11.(thanks, Mellowmaniac, gurkeyy and alessandro).

Yes, that’s right, another important act has confirmed its presence at this year’s Sziget Festival. The band that has confirmed its presence in Sziget 2010’s lineup is GWAR. Oderus Urungus’ men were supposed to be at Sziget Festival 2009, this didn’t happen, but they will be here this year.

GWAR is known to be a great live act, so we can’t wait to see them at this year’s Sziget. GWAR will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 11 and their presence is announced on the GWAR official website. (thanks Jari!)

AND ANOTHER UPDATE: the Paradise Lost official site also confirms this, so it’s 100% sure.

UPDATE: the news is also on Paradise Lost’s official Facebook page.

An important name is self-confirmed to be at this year’s Sziget Festival.

Paradise Lost have just confirmed themselves on their official MySpace page for this year’s Sziget Festival. According to their MySpace site, Paradise Lost will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 13. (thanks, Mellowmaniac)

Here’s an update on the earlier Rise Against rumor. We tried to confirm this with their staff, and we got an answer a few minutes ago from Missy Worth, at their management.

This is what it said:

We will not be playing- we won’t be in Europe in august

Sorry to give you this news, but the information on the last.fm page is inaccurate.

We also got some good news from the Rise Against management – the band will play in Budapest in June.

As you may remember, Rise Against were set to play at last year’s Sziget Festival, but it didn’t work out after all. As it seems, an appearance by the band is possible in this year’s Sziget Festival line-up, as their name has shown up on the Sziget last.fm page. We’re trying to find out more about this and will keep you posted on what we discover.

The Sziget 2010 last.fm page confirms another very interesting and important act for this year’s Sziget Festival – Asian Dub Foundation! This is not confirmed  somewhere else yet. If you know more, please tell us (thanks, BT2303)

Our reader kocheba says that two bands from Belarus are also set to play Sziget 2010 – The Toobes and Serebryanaja Svad`ba.

Very good news today! Infected Mushroom have confirmed their presence at this year’s Sziget Festival.

Infected Mushroom will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 14, according to their official website.

Thanks to our reader chudo_pahan for the tip.