It seems that Fatboy Slim will be the first confirmed Main Stage headliner for this year’s Sziget Festival. We hope this will be officially confirmed as soon as possible.Until then, here’s a video of Fatboy Slim performing for 250.000 people at Brighton Beach. Update: sziget2009.com have confirmed it with Fatboy Slim’s management. If you want [ Read More ]
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Faith No More have announced the lineup for this summer’s European tour. Jim Martin won’t be a part of it, as rumored. The lineup is as follows: Mike Patton – vocals Jon Hudson – guitar Billy Gould – bass Mike Bordin – drums Roddy Bottum – keyboards No tour dates have been announced yet, but [ Read More ]
We’ll be frank with you, we don’t know this one for sure, but many people (including Szigetnews reader Adam Peach) seem to be pretty sure of this. Faith No More have announced their reunion and have also mentioned that they will not play any venues in America. They only confirmed a European tour for this [ Read More ]
According to La Depeche, Les Touffes Kretiennes, the “fuckin’ funky brass band”, as they call themselves, will play Sziget Festival 2009 as part of their current European tour in support of their first album. The date is not yet confirmed on their official site, but you can visit it to find out more about them.
We always said our readers are the best readers a website can have (they’re Sziget Festival goers, so how else could they be?). And to confirm this, Szigetnews friend Mellowmaniac has made an effort for all of us, and we thank him for it. He gathered together almost all of the acts that are playing [ Read More ]
Kings of Leon have already announced a few European summer festival dates for this year, but nothing for August yet. Their official site also mentions that they will announce more European festival dates for this summer soon. We do hope that Sziget will be among those festivals. Cross your fingers, everyone!
Even though Sziget Festival is quite some time away, there are already rumors flying around about who the big acts for this year might be. Here’s what we heard so far: Arctic Monkeys have a big chance of showing up, as they are in Germany a few days before and Sziget organizers are known to [ Read More ]
Here’s a rumor that we told you about a while ago, that is now confirmed. Many of you metalheads going to Sziget this year will be happy to hear that Meshuggah will play this year’s Sziget Festival. The news is confirmed on their official site. Meshuggah will play Sziget on August 16th.
Justice is already mentioned as playing Sziget on the festival Last.FM page. Alanis Morisette is also persistantly rumored for this year’s festival.
A rumor that’s been very persistent on a lot of forums and websites lately, the one about the legendary-just-reformed Rage Against The Machine playing at this year’s Sziget Festival. There are even some sources that say that the announcement is just a matter of time and that the band will play on August 17th. Nothing [ Read More ]