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The French Official site has posted an official Sziget schedule in PDF format, one that you can print out and have in your pocket at the festival.

To get yours, just right-click here, save the document and print it out.

We thought this might help some of you.

As we told you earlier today, there is a very big chance that the Blink 182 at Sziget 2010 rumor won’t confirm. Some people on the site sounded quite happy about this. So we thought about having a poll here on Sziget News and see what the general opinion is, just for fun.

Comments are most welcome, as they always are.

Are you happy that Blink 182 won't be playing Sziget?

• Why would I care about that?
• No
• Yes

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The official French Sziget MySpace site features some interesting information today, in terms of programmation. First of all, Faithless is confirmed to play on the 11th, and some more acts playing dates (mostly World Music Main Stage ones) are now confirmed there. (thanks, Mellowmaniac)

Second of all, Besh O Drom are also mentioned as playing Sziget Festival 2010 on August 12.

All this information is reflected on our Sziget 2010 lineup page.

A tweet on Flore’s Twitter page has some interesting news – Flore Morfin will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 14.

What’s even more interesting is that she will play with Rodney P, aka “The Riddim Killa” one of the most important British MC’s and a member of Dub Pistols.

Rodney P has worked with Flore on her album “Raw”.

Thanks to our friend Mellowmaniac, we found out that French band The Inspector Cluzo are set to be part of the Sziget Festival 2010 lineup.

The band will promote their new album, called “The French Bastards” and what we can hear on their MySpace page makes them quite an interesting act to see live. Especially since they’ve played 185 shows in 47 countries last year, so it was about time for these French guys to get to Sziget.

The news is confirmed on The Inspector Cluzo official MySpace page and also on The Inspector Cluzo official website, that has a rather “interesting name”.

Another act has self-confirmed its presence at Sziget Festival 2010. The Young Punx are an English electronic dance music act whose  style “encompasses french house, breakbeat and drum and bass, mashed up with elements as diverse as 1980s pop music, hard rock, disco and glam rock”.

The band has existed since 2003 and virtuoso guitarist Guthrie Govan, as well as Massive Attack vocalist Yolanda Quertey work with them on a constant basis. They’ve also collaborated with Dizzee Rascal on his album Tongue N Cheek.

The Young Punx are self-confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival on their MySpace page. They’re set to play at Sziget on August 12. (thanks, Mellowmaniac!)

The official Hungarian Sziget site confirms a whole number of new acts (most of them for the World Music Main Stage, we presume). Sziget News already told you about some of them.

Here they are (thanks, chudo_pahan):

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Amparo Sanchez

Cankisou

Csík zenekar és vendégei

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Dirtmusic & Tamikrest

Jaune Toujours

Kries

Los De Abajo

Mahala Rai Banda

Oi-Va-Voi

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club & Omara Portuondo

Parno Graszt

Rotfront

Rupa & the April Fishes

Shantel &  Bucovina Club Orkestar

Söndörgo + Ferus Mustafov

Tony Allen

Where there’s a link, you will be taken to the relevant post on Sziget News.

Of course, the whole lineup so far can be found in our constantly updated lineup page.

After having to cancel last year’s appearance due to their guitarist’s motorcycle accident, Belgian band Vive LA Fete will make it up to Sziget fans.

They will play Sziget Festival 2010, according to the Vive La Fete MySpace page.

Vive La Fete are set to play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 13. (our thanks go to Mellowmaniac)

UPDATE: The Italian Sziget office wrote to us to correct the information below. Here’s the information we received:

The information about the about the headliners were their own considerations; they are not facts but their own

speculations.

The same thing goes for the things on 0 day, these are rumors that are going

on on their forum. Again, not facts. And, more importantly, these rumors do not

come from the Italian Sziget Office but from their users.

We do hope this makes things clearer.

UPDATE: Kasabian will be playing on the 15th, too, according to the official Kasabian MySpace.
Our friend Sumo has some news from the admin of the Italian Sziget website. He says that the other headliner (apart from Iron Maiden and Muse) will be Faithless and two headliners are still to be announced.

He also tells us that Day Zero will probably be a reggae/ska day, so maybe we should expect bands like The Specials to play.

Iron Maiden has posted the Sziget 2010 date on their official website.

According to the “Tour Dates” section on the Iron Maiden official site, they will play Sziget on August 14. This might be important news for people that only want to come to Sziget for the week-end.

That’s because they’ll be the main act for this Sziget’s Saturday night.