UPDATE: MTI and Trademagazin say that the price Sziget will pay is 50 million euros (around 184,000 Euro). Great news from the official Sziget site. All the worries are now gone,as the organizers and the city of Budapest have reached an agreement. Things will go just as planned, and we are set to have a [ Read More ]
Here’s what a comment we’ve received from FSK, that takes care of Sziget Cultural Management’s communication, says: The organisers of Sziget Festival are confident that they can come to an agreement with the mayor of Budapest and Sziget Festival will take place at its usual location in 2011 as well.In recent days rumours have been [ Read More ]
UPDATE: The mayor of Budapest, Istvan Tarlos, has said that Sziget will probably get a serious discount on the rent it has to pay for the space where it takes place. “Sziget will still get a very serious discount – somewhere between HUF 1 bn and HUF 1.5 bn, according to our current estimates”, the [ Read More ]
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.
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 ]
Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky has vetoed the Budapest Assembly cityscape comitee’s decision made last month to allow the Sziget Festival to use public areas free of charge for three years, according to caboodle.hu. Committee chairman Attila Ughy has said that the agreement was signed with the festival, and the city could be sued if anyone [ Read More ]
Here’s a nice video preview of this year’s festival, that you will most certainly enjoy. Preview sziget 2008
Although the organizers are still keeping the list for this year’s festival very quiet, we just heard about another artist playing at Sziget this year. We’re talking about Pascal Arbez, a.k.a. Vitalic. You can watch his video for “My Friend Dario” below. [szigetnews]2uZiWwPHXiw[/szigetnews]