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Brujeria at Sziget Festival 2009!

Sziget News — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:15:16 +0000

Tonight we have some more good news for all you metalheads coming to Sziget Festival 2009. A few days we announced GWAR, now we’re telling you about legendary masked metal band Brujeria, that will play Sziget Festival 2009 on August 14th. The news is confirmed on their management website. Brujeria will play Sziget Festival on August 14.Â (thanks, Required!)

Rise Against certainly not @ Sziget & a few more speculations

Sziget News — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:46:56 +0000

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 be coming there on this album though.

On the other hand, our friend Mellowmaniac has a few more line-up ideas for you, based on current tour dates. Let’s hear him:

Long time no rumoursâ€¦

To heat the Radiohead discussion up:

The guys seem to move closer and closer to the sziget dates. After confirming Leeds and Reading (29.+30.08.) and anouncing two shows in Poland (23.+25.08) they are now strongly rumoured for the FM4 Frequency festival in Austria (20.-22.08.).

Come on guys: just a few more dates and youâ€™ll play Sziget again!

Lily Allen seems to be a little bit more available as before (offdays: 11., 12.+13.08).

Arctic Monkeys are still â€œavailableâ€ on 11., 12.+16.08.

And as a new guess: Glasvegas. They are supporting U2 on the second leg of their tour and are only playing London on the 15th within the Sziget time frame. (and with Snow Patrol we already have another U2 support band in the line up).

Who would you like to see at Sziget Festival 2009?

Sziget News — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:52:48 +0000

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 dates). I’ll start. My first name is Metallica, I know that they said that their European tour is over before Sziget but they don’t have any plans for that time so I still have some hope.
My second name is Limp Bizkit- I don’t know why, I just love them! and they are playing in Europe in July.. So maybe.
the third name is Arctic Monkeys. I know them for just a month and I just love them.
Let’s start making some pressure and make sure they know that the current line-up is just not good enough.

What do you guys think? And what are your three names?

Festival Memories #7

Sziget News — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:54:32 +0000

Sziget has been over for two weeks now, but your Sziget accounts keep on coming to Szigetnews.com. Keep them coming through the contact section, or via comment.

Here’s the latest we received, from Szigetnews friend Kevin:

Â Sziget was good as always, but it was better the last couple of yearsâ€¦ Prices
have gone up extremely over the last two years. Line-up was a nice 90ies-feel
line-up, but weâ€™re living 10 years later…

Two friends of mine were robbed. Both were sleepinh in there tents when people
came into their tents to get stuff out! Thatâ€™s not your own fault!

Donâ€™t know if Iâ€™ll go again. Maybe Iâ€™ll try the EXIT-festival next
yearâ€¦ But itâ€™s a hard choice to make. Main reason to go to Sziget is the
massive possibilities to chill in tons of places!

Sziget 2008 makes profit

Sziget News — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:24:34 +0000

This year’s Festival is now over, and, according to preliminary data released by the organizers, this year’s edition of Sziget Festival made approximately 421,000 euros in profit. The Festival was attended by a total of 385,000 people this year.

How was it for you? What did you enjoy most? What disappointed you this year?