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Sziget 2008 articles
This year’s Sziget will offer a lot for people interested in high profile culture. You will be able to watch 35 theatre and ballet performances, and Hungarian museums will sponsor 12 events. The festival’s stages will host theatre events by Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Stockholm 59 Degrees North, Hofesh Shechter and the Vietnamese National Water [ Read More ]
Bad news for people hoping for a last minute announcement of Rage Against The Machine playing Sziget’s Main Stage this year. The last band on the Main Stage, playing on August 15, at 16:30, will be The Cribs.
 If you want to win one of the 10 Sziget Festival passes that budacast.hu is giving away, all you have to do is to follow the instructions below: 1. Listen to the latest episodes of Budacast and answer the 6 trivia questions over the next 6 weeks. 2. Send an audio or text comment [ Read More ]
Is your backpack ready? Have you bought the tickets? Have you thought about the acts you really want to see? Are these acts overlapping? And if so, which ones and who are you going to choose? How about accommodation? Is staying on the festival grounds in the tent better than living in the city? Szigetnews [ Read More ]
Gary Holt, songwriter and lead guitarist of EXODUS: “After many years in the planning and discussion stage, we have finally completed the re-recording of “Bonded By Blood.†We have decided to call it “Let There Be Blood†and it is our way of paying homage to Paul Baloff by showing how relevant these songs we [ Read More ]
Still no news about the last headliner and if there will actually be one. Still, we stumbled across an article about Hungarian band Büdösök on The Little Black Egg, that says Sziget is “a giant, boring rock fest stuffed to the gills with bands a good fifteen years past their sell-by date.”. What do you [ Read More ]
There’s still no news about who the last act playing on the Main Stage on August 15th will be and whether there will be one. Until we find out exactly who that will be, you can watch a video of a very interesting band playing Sziget Festival this year, Kultur Shock. The band will play [ Read More ]
For all of you metalheads going to Sziget this year to see Meshuggah, here’s some live footage of the band playing at Hellfest, three days ago. [szigetnews]BONafvQX8IQ[/szigetnews]
We’ve had a lot of feedback from you about the line-up poll and most of you (51% – 188 votes) thought it could have been better this year. Still, a closer look at the Main Stage schedule on the official site will rise a question mark. There is nothing programmed on Friday August 15th, in [ Read More ]