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Then, Faithless, Danko Jones, the Hives and The Toy Dolls and Bad Religion(both of the last two names were announced here).
Also at Sziget will be Ska-P, that have been at Sziget before, and Gentleman.
Metal fans will be very happy to hear thatParadise Lost, that we told you about, will be joined in the Sziget lineup by The 69 Eyes and Ill Niño. And for the more extreme ones of you guys, Children of Bodom will be at Sziget Festival 2010!
Also on the metal front, Monster Magnet will be there, as well as GWAR, that Sziget News found out about a while ago!
In the same area, Papa Roach are also mentioned on the “Programs” page.
The fabulous lineup is completed with The Cribs, Subsonica and K.I.Z.
We also forgot to mention Lyapis Trubetskoy
Hope you are all as excited as we are! (FIDutchman, you’ve been a great help!)
Later edit: the Dutch Sziget official site also mentions Skindred for the WAN2 stage. (our thanks go to dinges)
Two more acts are now self-confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival on their official MySpace pages (thanks a lot, Mellowmaniac & Gaborka78).
First of all, there’s Cankisou, a Czech band (from Brno), that are set to play the Sziget Festival 2010 World Music Stage on August 11, according to their official MySpace. The date is also confirmed on their official website.
Then, Tony Allen is also self-confirmed on his MySpace page. Tony Allen is a very experienced drummer (and one of Africa’s most appreciated).
As our friend Mellowmaniac told us,
As drummer of the legendary Fela Kuti he was one of the innovators of the Afro-Beat.
In later years he collaborated with Damon Albarn (Blur), Paul Simonon (The Clash), and Simon Tong (The Verve) as “The Good, The Bad & The Queen”.
Other collaborations he did in the last few years are with finish electrojazzer Jimi Tenor, and the french artists Air, Sebastian Tellier and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
If you remember, The Good, The Bad & The Queen have played Sziget’s Main Stage in 2007.
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!)
An important name is self-confirmed to be at this year’s Sziget Festival.
Paradise Lost have just confirmed themselves on their official MySpace page for this year’s Sziget Festival. According to their MySpace site, Paradise Lost will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 13. (thanks, Mellowmaniac)
Disco Ensemble, the Finnish punk sensation that will play Sziget Festival 2009′s Main Stage on August 16, have just released a video for their song “Back on the MF Street”, off the newly released EP of the same name. You can watch the video below.
The band are in full form as they embarked on a huge summer tour, that will culminate with their performance at Sziget 2009.
Second of all, Szigetnews friend Tijn has sent us quite some interesting news. Dutch site Rock Blog says that the Sziget 2009 Zero Day, the Rock Against Racism Day, will have some international acts, too, in addition to the local acts that will most certainly be present. More so, the official French Facebook site lists the question “Prognostics pour la tête d’affiche du Day Zero (11 août) ?”, meaning “any prognosis on who the Zero-Day headliner will be?”. Rock Blog, that spoken to the organizers, also say that some international names will be confirmed soon, and that we’ll know in the following weeks.
Who do you guys think the mystery headliner will be?
Two more new acts are confirmed for Sziget Festival 2009. The first one is DePedro, the artist name of Spanish guitarist Jairo Zavala. DePedro will be at Sziget Festival 2009 as a special guest of Calexico, as stated on his MySpace.
The second name is Hungarian band Esclin Syndo, an interesting mix of intense guitars, metal bass, rock percussions, 80′s keyboard sounds, and the enormous voice of Dalma Berger which is forced to sound strange, but nonetheless it’s quite appealing, according to their presentation on the A38 site. They sound quite good to us. They are confirmed on their MySpace for August 13, at the WAN2 stage. Here’s their video for “Folklore”, for you to enjoy.
According to the Official French Facebook Sziget site, a new act has been confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival. French ska and reggae group Babylon Circus are confirmed to play at the WAN2 stage of this year’s festival on August 15.
More good news for all you metal fans travelling to Sziget Festival 2009! Swedish industrial goth metal band Deathstars will play Sziget Festival 2009 on August 14. (thanks go to from Hungary and Tibor).
Szigetnews friend Tibor also tells us that you will also be able to catch Deathstars in concert in Budapest in October, at the Diesel, where they will play with Diary of Dreams, The Birthday Massacre and Dope Stars Inc. as support acts. This is confirmed on Blabbermouth.net.
A new article on the official Hungarian page, that lists the bands playing the Main Stage, also lists a new and very interesting name – Danko Jones will play at Sziget Festival 2009, on the last day. (thanks, Required and fromhungary)
