…at least that’s what Hungarian music site Zene.hu says in the article (Hungarian) they published today. Faith No More are listed for the Main Stage, and so are Manic Street Preachers. The article also includes some other new names. One of these is Maximo Park, that our friend Mellowmaniac predicted a while ago. Then, there’s [ Read More ]
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The Sziget last.Fm page lists two more interesting acts for this year’s Sziget Festival. Vieux Farka Toure, a Malian guitarist/singer/songwriter, as well as French act Zamballarana (that confirms Sziget Festival on their official MySpace for August 14), will be at Sziget festival 2009.
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 [ Read More ]
The French Sziget site and their Facebook lists another interesting act listed to play Sziget Festival this year – Lord Sassafras. He will play the Roma Tent and is an emblematic character that plays a mix of world music, rock and ethno-techno influences, that he calls “Global Style”. More details on his MySpace. UPDATE: also [ 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.
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 ]
The French Sziget Festival official site’s stages page only confirms something we all heard in the last few weeks. There will be no metal, or Hammer stage, as it was called, at this year’s Sziget Festival. The stage where Avantasia performed in 2008 and bands like Within Temptation, Napalm Death or Hammerfall made their fans [ Read More ]
More good news for reggae fans coming to Sziget Festival 2009 – Tiken Jah Fakoly, one of the important artists of African reggae music, has confirmed his presence at the Festival. Tiken Jah Fakoly comes from the Ivory Coast and his music speaks about the injustices done to the people of his country and to [ Read More ]
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it as many times as possible – the Szigetnews readers are the best. This time it’s Szigetnews reader Mussi that found some very interesting rumors on the Guano Apes message boards. We all knew the band has reunited for a few festival appearances this summer, but what you [ Read More ]
We have another confirmed act for this year’s Sziget Festival. Fanfara lui Craciun, a very interesting brass band coming from Zece Prajini, a Romanian village close to the Moldavian border, is playing Sziget Festival 2009 on August 16 at 4:00 PM, most certainly at the World Music Stage. Their presence at this year’s Sziget Festival [ Read More ]