As some of you may have already read, Bjork has cancelled her gig at Balaton Sound, forced by vocal cord problems. Doctors have found a polyp affecting her vocal cords, and told her to rest until she is fully recovered. August dates in Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki seem to be still on, according to her [ Read More ]
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According to our friend john doe, new names for this year’s Sziget are coming sooner than we might all think. He says that 19 new names are coming this week, but Foo Fighters won’t be part of this announcement (we don’t know if they’ll be in another one, though). We’re curious who was right about [ Read More ]
UPDATE: John doe has also posted this picture in a comment, making us all think Lamb of God. Let’s hope an official announcement does come soon. (again, this is speculation, it could confirm or not, especially since they have tour dates until July 1st in Europe; not impossible, though). Then again, as our reader no [ Read More ]
This very busy day continues with even more news. One of the contributors of our friends at the German Sziget board has noticed a rather interesting reply to a comment on the official Rotfront Facebook. When asked whether they would come to Sziget this year, the answer from the band (in German) was “most likely”, [ Read More ]
As he does every year, our friend Mellowmaniac has gathered a list of artists touring in the area. It’s always updated on the German Sziget board, bestdayz.net. Some of these artists will certainly play Sziget 2012. Here’s the list, along with festivals they’re playing: Headliner speculations: The Cure (05.-08.07. Roskilde, 07.07. Heineken Jammin, 09.07. Rock [ Read More ]
UPDATE: Some more good (or bad) news, depending on the way you see it. Our friend Island was at VOLT and, according to him, Jared Leto’s exact words were I have a surprise for you. We’ll be back. Don’t tell anyone but we’ll be headlining Sziget Festival later this year! This is a speculation that, [ Read More ]
The Sziget France Twitter and Facebook pages have posted a video of Ben l’Oncle Soul, without any other mentions. Could this mean he will be playing Sziget? Nothing on his official website or MySpace…
UPDATE: in the meantime, Linkin Park has disappeared, so who knows… Here’s another confirmation on what was quite a busy day. Dutch band Go Back To The Zoo is confirmed on the official Dutch page for the Europe Stage. On the other hand, in the good tradition of the Sziget team leaving hints, just like [ Read More ]
Madness is set to return to Sziget, after the excellent performance in 2007, according to an article on website quart.hu, that you can check out here (it’s in Hungarian). According to that same article, Madness would play Sziget on the next day after the Bob Marley celebration, so that would make it an August 11 [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]