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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!)

The Sziget 2010 last.fm page confirms another very interesting and important act for this year’s Sziget Festival – Asian Dub Foundation! This is not confirmed  somewhere else yet. If you know more, please tell us (thanks, BT2303)

Our reader kocheba says that two bands from Belarus are also set to play Sziget 2010 – The Toobes and Serebryanaja Svad`ba.

Very good news today! Infected Mushroom have confirmed their presence at this year’s Sziget Festival.

Infected Mushroom will play Sziget Festival 2010 on August 14, according to their official website.

Thanks to our reader chudo_pahan for the tip.

The Surface Unsigned festival could give you this chance. The festival, aimed at unsigned bands, will tour the UK, giving artists from cities such as Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, London, Brighton and Portsmouth the chance to win.

The grand prize is £5,000 in cash, a slot at the 2011 Sziget Festival, a digital distribution contract with Zimbalam Digital and various other incentives.

If you’re from the UK and you’re interested, you only have until January 31 to sign-up, on the official Surface Unsigned website.

We decided to go away from the party for a few moments and wish you a very happy 2010, with everything you want and, of course, a very exciting Sziget Festival.

Lots of new things happening here these days, as you can all see (we’re planning on keeping them coming). Apart from announcing a very possible performance by Blink 182 this year, Sziget News can also be accesed now by simply typing sziget2010.com in your web browser. We thought that would make things easier for you guys.

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That’s it for 2009. Have a great 2010!