Here’s a video of Iron Maiden rocking Sziget Festival last night.



Szigetnews is waiting for your Sziget stories. The best ones will be published here on Szigetnews.

It has been recently announced that around 60-80 consumer protection officers will work during this year’s Sziget Festival, in order to ensure everything is at an optimal rate. they will focus on food and water quality, as well as the safety of the venue (electric equipment, structures)

The organisers have also announced that police officers will randomly check visitors for drugs upon entrance, using dogs.

Tomorrow, Sziget Festival starts with Iron Maiden and Lauren Harris on the Main Stage.

It’s your turn now. Since each one of you is going to the festival to see something different, we think you’re the ones that would cover it best, the ones that have the best Sziget stories.

Szigetnews will wait for your opinions on the festival (as well as pictures), and the most interesting ones will be published on the main page. You can send in your input as a comment, as well as by using the “Contact” section or writing an e-mail on contact (at) szigetnews.com. What are you waiting for?

xpatloop.com features a very interesting article about the many other things you can do at Sziget, (except for going to the many concerts, of course). There’s theatre, literary programmes and many other interesting things to do. Click here to read the article.

 

Only 6 days until Sziget Festival starts. You can get the final official programmation here, so you know exactly what acts you want to see and when.

Our reader ouaso makes an interesting comment, here on Szigetnews. He thinks that “If you are disappointed about the booked bands on this year’s sziget, just look at the sponsors… Warner is one of them and many of the labels artists are on Sziget… I think that’s a reason:-)”. What do you think? Could a label impose artists on the line-up of such a huge festival?

 

The French duo that will play Sziget Festival this year on August 17th, has teamed up with design group Surface2Air to create their personal clothing line, inspired by their own wardrobe. You can already get them at a few retailers (jackets are 790 euros), as well as on Surface2Air’s website…

According to the French Sziget site newsletter, camping tickets are running out soon. So get yours real soon, if you are planning to stay on the island.

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 Puppet Theatre. This year, museums will also have the opportunity to offer their own programmes to Sziget visitors.

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 (on the site) with your name, where you’re
from and a good memory from the Sziget Festival, or tell them what you’d like to
do at the Festival and why.

3. Send all 6 of your answers to the trivia questions and identify your comment
by 22 July to: drew AT budacast.hu

The first Sziget Six trivia question appears in the June 18 episode of
Budacast.

Winners will be announced on Budacast on Monday, 4 August.

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 wants to know what you think about all of this and more!

So feel free to post a comment and tell everybody!