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Fat Cat & Ambientium have announced on the official website that they will perform live improvisation at this year’s Sziget Festival.

A date has not been mentioned, but the website mentions that they will perform at the Cökxpôn Ambient Garden and Tent.

To find out more details, check out the Ambientium website.

According to a post on the official Sziget Facebook page, the lineup will be officially announced early next week. Let’s hope for some great acts, except for the ones that we already know about.

This just in: another great name has self-confirmed its presence ofr this year’s Sziget Festival.

Gotan Project have self-confirmed their presence for this year’s Sziget Festival on their official MySpace page. Their interesting brand of music, mixing tango with other genres, will surely be a great addition to this year’s festival.

Gotan Project are set to play at Sziget Festival 2010 on August 13.

What’s even nicer is that they will promote their new album, that will be out on April 19th.

Great news tonight for all of you Sziget goers! Another big name is self-confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival.

Bad Religion have just self-confirmed themselves in a note, signed by Jay [Bentley], on their official Facebook page that lists their newest added tour dates.

According to this note, Bad Religion are set to play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 11. (thanks go to Jos S)

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Another name is self-confirmed for this year’s Sziget lineup. Bassist and songwriter Angie Taylor has confirmed her presence at this year’s festival on her official MySpace.

Two more acts are now self-confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival on their official MySpace pages (thanks a lot, Mellowmaniac & Gaborka78).

First of all, there’s Cankisou, a Czech band (from Brno), that are set to play the Sziget Festival 2010 World Music Stage on August 11, according to their official MySpace. The date is also confirmed on their official website.

Then, Tony Allen is also self-confirmed on his MySpace page. Tony Allen is a very experienced drummer (and one of Africa’s most appreciated).

As our friend Mellowmaniac told us,

As drummer of the legendary Fela Kuti he was one of the innovators of the Afro-Beat.

In later years he collaborated with Damon Albarn (Blur), Paul Simonon (The Clash), and Simon Tong (The Verve) as “The Good, The Bad & The Queen”.

Other collaborations he did in the last few years are with finish electrojazzer Jimi Tenor, and the french artists Air, Sebastian Tellier and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

If you remember, The Good, The Bad & The Queen have played Sziget’s Main Stage in 2007.

UPDATE: Szigetnews friend anonimous just wrote us, telling us that the Italian official vending company has said that they will have a meeting with the Hungarian team of Sziget and a big name will be known on the evening of the 15th.

The Official Sziget France Facebook page announces an interesting information today. It says that we’ll have the programme at the end of March.

They were usually the best in terms of updates last year, too, so we can’t wait to find out what we’ll see this year!

We’re curious to know if this means the whole lineup (highly improbable) or the first important names.

In the meantime, if you hear any rumors, please forward them – in a comment, using the contact page or contact [at] szigetnews.com.

siraic, one of our Twitter followers (by the way, if you’re not following us on Twitter, you can do so by clicking here) gave us some very interesting news today.

Oi Va Voi, an act that played Sziget’s World Music Stage in 2009, too, will be headlining the said stage this year, too. Their presence is self-confimed on their iLike page.

Oi Va Voi are set to play Sziget on August 13.

German producer and DJ Shantel is confirmed for Sziget 2010 on the official MySpace page. He is known for mixing balkan sounds with electronic sounds.

Shantel will play Sziget on August 15.

Sziget News’ thanks go to nikisok and Nick Wanmaker.

A few more interesting acts have confirmed their presence at this year’s Sziget Festival via their websites or MySpace pages.

First, there’s Hudaki, from Nizhne Selyshe, Ukraine. Their presence is confirmed on their official website and you can check out their MySpace for a few songs. They play great traditional music, straight from the Carpathians!

Then, there’s Klezmofobia, a band that calls its music “New York Klezmer”. Their presence is confirmed on the Klezmofobia official website.

Also self confirmed on their MySpace pages are two Hungarian acts, Gyongyi Salla (for August 12) and Dalkloid Sound (August 13)

(thanks, chudo_pahan)