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Fat Cat & Ambientium have announced on the official website that they will perform live improvisation at this year’s Sziget Festival.

A date has not been mentioned, but the website mentions that they will perform at the Cökxpôn Ambient Garden and Tent.

To find out more details, check out the Ambientium website.

This just in: another great name has self-confirmed its presence ofr this year’s Sziget Festival.

Gotan Project have self-confirmed their presence for this year’s Sziget Festival on their official MySpace page. Their interesting brand of music, mixing tango with other genres, will surely be a great addition to this year’s festival.

Gotan Project are set to play at Sziget Festival 2010 on August 13.

What’s even nicer is that they will promote their new album, that will be out on April 19th.

Great news tonight for all of you Sziget goers! Another big name is self-confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival.

Bad Religion have just self-confirmed themselves in a note, signed by Jay [Bentley], on their official Facebook page that lists their newest added tour dates.

According to this note, Bad Religion are set to play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 11. (thanks go to Jos S)

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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.

The site was down for a few hours due to some unforeseen technical circumstances, but now it’s back up and we’ll try to keep it this way! It was the first time this happened in over two years…

We hope you missed us!

A few more interesting acts have confirmed their presence at this year’s Sziget Festival via their websites or MySpace pages.

First, there’s Hudaki, from Nizhne Selyshe, Ukraine. Their presence is confirmed on their official website and you can check out their MySpace for a few songs. They play great traditional music, straight from the Carpathians!

Then, there’s Klezmofobia, a band that calls its music “New York Klezmer”. Their presence is confirmed on the Klezmofobia official website.

Also self confirmed on their MySpace pages are two Hungarian acts, Gyongyi Salla (for August 12) and Dalkloid Sound (August 13)

(thanks, chudo_pahan)

UPDATED

Volt Festival, Sziget’s “brother”, has announced the acts for this year. The festival takes place in Hungary, too (in Sopron, to be accurate), has the same organizers and it’s between June 30 and July 3.

The most important acts for this year are

• Billy Idol
• Massive Attack
• Parov Stelar
• Haydamaky

Let’s see what Sziget’s surprises will be…

(thanks, nema)

We have some really great news for all of you punk fans going to Sziget this year. Legendary punk rock band Toy Dolls is set to play at this year’s Sziget Festival.

This great news is confirmed on their official website. Toy Dolls are set to play on Sziget Festival 2010’s Main Stage, on August 11. If you don’t believe us, check out “New Dates” in the “Tour” section of the Toy Dolls official website.

Orquestra Buena Vista Social Club have confirmed their appearance at this year’s Sziget Festival on their record company website.

They will play Sziget on August 11.(thanks, Mellowmaniac, gurkeyy and alessandro).

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!)