Another act has self-confirmed its presence at Sziget Festival 2010. The Young Punx are an English electronic dance music act whose style “encompasses french house, breakbeat and drum and bass, mashed up with elements as diverse as 1980s pop music, hard rock, disco and glam rock”. The band has existed since 2003 and virtuoso guitarist [ Read More ]
Archive for March, 2010
The official Sziget Festival Facebook page suggests some things about the -1 Day of this year’s Festival (thanks, Tool, tiga & Thomas vd Fange). It says that on the “minus first” day of this year’s Sziget – August 9th, right on the main stage of the festival, after more than 20 active years spent in [ Read More ]
The official Hungarian Sziget site confirms a whole number of new acts (most of them for the World Music Main Stage, we presume). Sziget News already told you about some of them. Here they are (thanks, chudo_pahan): 08001 Amparo Sanchez Cankisou Csík zenekar és vendégei Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird Dirtmusic & Tamikrest Jaune [ Read More ]
After having to cancel last year’s appearance due to their guitarist’s motorcycle accident, Belgian band Vive LA Fete will make it up to Sziget fans. They will play Sziget Festival 2010, according to the Vive La Fete MySpace page. Vive La Fete are set to play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 13. (our thanks go [ Read More ]
Here’s a good Sunday news for all of you – another self-confirmed name. Rupa & The April Fishes are self-confirmed on their official MySpace page to play Sziget Festival 2010. (our thanks got chudo_pahan) Check out the songs they have on their MySpace, if you don’t know this San Francisco-based act. They are quite interesting. [ Read More ]
As you can see, we now have a line-up page, that will try to keep up with all the confirmed and self confirmed acts for this year’s Sziget Festival. Of course, it will be updated as soon as we have any news. We hope you find it useful. You can reach it via the “Sziget [ Read More ]
The official Dutch site lists another new and very interesting act for this year’s Sziget line-up. We’re talking about Dutch band Baskerville, set to play the Meduza stage this year. According to our friend Zmeer, “This is a very interesting project from 2 producers from Haarlem, The Netherlands, who are bringing a sound influenced by [ Read More ]
UPDATE: The Italian Sziget office wrote to us to correct the information below. Here’s the information we received: The information about the about the headliners were their own considerations; they are not facts but their own speculations. The same thing goes for the things on 0 day, these are rumors that are going on on [ Read More ]
An update on the Muse official site points out some rather interesting information (thanks mellowmaniac!). According to this update, Muse will be playing Sziget 2010 on August 15th, which is Sunday. That means the Sziget week-end schedule for the Main Stage is starting to take shape!
Iron Maiden has posted the Sziget 2010 date on their official website. According to the “Tour Dates” section on the Iron Maiden official site, they will play Sziget on August 14. This might be important news for people that only want to come to Sziget for the week-end. That’s because they’ll be the main act [ Read More ]