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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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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.

The Agenda Info awards for 2009, awarded according to the votes of 14005 people in the Netherlands and Flanders, have been announced.

Sziget has won the Best International Festival Award for 2009.

Check out the rest of the winners here.

After playing Sziget 2009, it seems that 08001 will be at Sziget this year, too. This wonderful news is confirmed on the 08001 official website (thanks, Fantomas).

In case you don’t know who 08001 are, we’ll just tell you that they are quite a very interesting project, combining the inspiration of a line-up of artists from all around the world, that meet in Barcelona to create their music.

08001 live shows mix the performances of a large number of artists with a visual screen show.

08001 are set to play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 15.

Yes, that’s right, another important act has confirmed its presence at this year’s Sziget Festival. The band that has confirmed its presence in Sziget 2010’s lineup is GWAR. Oderus Urungus’ men were supposed to be at Sziget Festival 2009, this didn’t happen, but they will be here this year.

GWAR is known to be a great live act, so we can’t wait to see them at this year’s Sziget. GWAR will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 11 and their presence is announced on the GWAR official website. (thanks Jari!)

Here’s an update on the earlier Rise Against rumor. We tried to confirm this with their staff, and we got an answer a few minutes ago from Missy Worth, at their management.

This is what it said:

We will not be playing- we won’t be in Europe in august

Sorry to give you this news, but the information on the last.fm page is inaccurate.

We also got some good news from the Rise Against management – the band will play in Budapest in June.

Very good news today! Infected Mushroom have confirmed their presence at this year’s Sziget Festival.

Infected Mushroom will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 14, according to their official website.

Thanks to our reader chudo_pahan for the tip.

Finally, we have the first confirmed bands for this year’s Sziget Festival. These bands have already confirmed their presence via their official sites or MySpace pages and, although they’re not very big names, it’s still good to know about them.

Here we go, then:

• Eslam is the first name and the way he describes himself is quite interesting:
  

  An ex Lebanese Mafia affiliate turned overweight entertainer, after an 8 Million Dollar sale of a stolen Mammoth tusk from a Siberian excavation went wrong… Born to Syrian and Lebanese parents, Eslam Jawaad (real name ‘Wissam Khodur’) left his mafia past in Lebanon and came to London in October 2003 where he quickly caught on to the vibrant music scene of the bustlin’ city. He found his way into the underground music scene, linking with British acts UK Apache, Visionary Underground, Fun-Da-Mental and Asian Dub Foundation.

His music is old-school hip-hop and he has worked with Damon Albarn’s The Good, The Bad and The Queen. Check Eslam out right here. Eslam will be playing the Main Stage.

• Blues Trappers are next – they’re a Hungarian blues band, that wants to bow before the Blues Brothers. The date is confirmed on their official site.
• Kaido Kirikmäe is an electronic music act from Estonia. According to his MySpace page, he mostly creates electronic yet organic music with experimental beats that is mainly built on loop structures. His presence is confirmed on his MySpace page.