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Is your backpack ready? Have you bought the tickets? Have you thought about the acts you really want to see? Are these acts overlapping? And if so, which ones and who are you going to choose? How about accommodation? Is staying on the festival grounds in the tent better than living in the city? Szigetnews [ Read More ]
Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky has vetoed the Budapest Assembly cityscape comitee’s decision made last month to allow the Sziget Festival to use public areas free of charge for three years, according to caboodle.hu. Committee chairman Attila Ughy has said that the agreement was signed with the festival, and the city could be sued if anyone [ Read More ]
Here’s a nice video preview of this year’s festival, that you will most certainly enjoy. Preview sziget 2008
Since we didn’t get to see Leonard Cohen at Sziget this year, the organizers have prepared another surprise. Singer-songwriter Adam Green, formerly of The Moldy Peaches, will play Sziget this year. Another piece of good news is that the French Sziget site confirms Babyshambles‘ presence at Sziget this year.
Although the organizers are still keeping the list for this year’s festival very quiet, we just heard about another artist playing at Sziget this year. We’re talking about Pascal Arbez, a.k.a. Vitalic. You can watch his video for “My Friend Dario” below. [szigetnews]2uZiWwPHXiw[/szigetnews]
According to caboodle.hu, Budapest District III (Óbuda) mayor Balázs Bús has applied for the section of Hajógyári (Shipxyard) Island owned by the City to be transferred to the district. A little more than half of the island, the venue for the annual Sziget festival, is owned by the state, while the rest (43%) is controlled [ Read More ]