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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.

As you may remember, Rise Against were set to play at last year’s Sziget Festival, but it didn’t work out after all. As it seems, an appearance by the band is possible in this year’s Sziget Festival line-up, as their name has shown up on the Sziget last.fm page. We’re trying to find out more about this and will keep you posted on what we discover.

First of all, the bad news. The Kills are officially cancelled, according to the official Dutch site.

Then, the (possibly) good news. Deftones are listed on last.fm as playing Sziget Festival this year, and the news is coming from Life of Agony’s site (a band that’s been confirmed for a while now), that says, on the Sziget Festival date – “W/Faith No More, Turbonegro, Deftones”. Let’s hope this confirms.

…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 Chris Corner’s project IAMX, that we also told you about a while ago. Also listed is famous BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong.

And it doesn’t end here. Life of Agony are also listed to play at this year’s Sziget.

And some more good news, from the release on the Hungarian site. Primal Scream are also listed to play at this year’s Sziget!

UPDATE!!! Our wish (and yours, we’re sure) came true: It’s official! The Sziget official Facebook page lists Faith No More and Manic Street Preachers as confirmed acts!

And yet another UPDATE: the official Sziget Hungarian site also lists these bands, as well as Turbonegro. The rest of the bands have already been mentioned on Szigetnews.

And another UPDATE on this very busy day: La Fura Dels Baus, Nouvelle Vague and Emily Loizeau are also confirmed on the French Sziget site.

As we already suspected, the news that Rise Against won’t be at Sziget this year, after all, is now confirmed by our reader tool. He wrote an e-mail to their management, asking about this and the reply he got was the following:

They are not coming- it ended up not working out! Sorry, we will be coming there on this album though.

On the other hand, our friend Mellowmaniac has a few more line-up ideas for you, based on current tour dates. Let’s hear him:

Long time no rumours…

To heat the Radiohead discussion up:

The guys seem to move closer and closer to the sziget dates. After confirming Leeds and Reading (29.+30.08.) and anouncing two shows in Poland (23.+25.08) they are now strongly rumoured for the FM4 Frequency festival in Austria (20.-22.08.).

Come on guys: just a few more dates and you’ll play Sziget again!

Lily Allen seems to be a little bit more available as before (offdays: 11., 12.+13.08).

Arctic Monkeys are still “available” on 11., 12.+16.08.

And as a new guess: Glasvegas. They are supporting U2 on the second leg of their tour and are only playing London on the 15th within the Sziget time frame. (and with Snow Patrol we already have another U2 support band in the line up).

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 dates). I’ll start. My first name is Metallica, I know that they said that their European tour is over before Sziget but they don’t have any plans for that time so I still have some hope.
My second name is Limp Bizkit- I don’t know why, I just love them! and they are playing in Europe in July.. So maybe.
the third name is Arctic Monkeys. I know them for just a month and I just love them.
Let’s start making some pressure and make sure they know that the current line-up is just not good enough.

What do you guys think? And what are your three names?

…or just an April Fools’ joke? The Sziget Festival Last.fm page lists Metallica for Sziget Festival 2009, but we don’t know what to believe just yet. We’ll just have to wait for an official confirmation and see… They are available during that time, according to their official site, so who knows?

Still, just a joke, probably…

Later edit: as we suspected, just a joke. But who knows, it just might come true…

Szigetnews friend Mellowmaniac has gathered another list of possible acts for this year’s Sziget Festival, a list gathered taking into account that FM4 has announced a part of their line-up, and there usually are a lot of bands at FM4 that play Sziget, too. Here’s what he has for us this time:

Ready for some more speculations?
FM4 just announced 11 new bands of their lineup. Usually a lot of the bands playing at FM4 are also on Sziget.
New bands are some already confirmed for Sziget:

• Bloc Party
• Ska-P
• Ting Tings

some german bands of who I (as german) hope to see none at Sziget:

• Peter Fox
• Mia
• Selig
• Polarkreis 18

and some international acts:

• Heater Nova
• Anti-Flag (at Sziget 2008)
• Eagles of Death Metal (at Sziget 2007)
• Kasabian (announced for Sziget 2008, but then canceled)

The only band I really would like to see is Kasabian.

Also many of the V-Festival rumours are now confirmed.
There are already 3 bands confirmed for Sziget and V (Fatboy Slim, Pendulum and Ting Tings) and a lot of amazing V-Festival bands I’d like to see at Sziget (The Specials, Lily Allen, Happy Mondays, The Wombats, James, The Enemy, MGMT) – pick your own favorites… there are lots to pick from!

It is now 100% sure, The Offspring will play Sziget Festival 2009’s Main Stage, as the official Sziget press newsletter states. (thanks again to our reader Mellowmaniac).

The newsletter doesn’t confirm any new names, but it says that Tankcsapda will certainly play on Day -1 of the Festival, August 10.

At least that’s what a user on the Sziget Festival 2009 Last.fm page says. He quotes the band’s guitarist (he is talking about Dean Rosenzweig, we presume), whose exact words were “IAMX are definitely playing at Sziget”. We hope this confirms 100 % real soon.

In case you didn’t know, IAMX are the solo project of Chris Corner, best known for his work with Sneaker Pimps.