DJ Marky Moved to 3AM spot on Saturday (A38 Stage) 2015 line up A38 Stage Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News July 9, 2015July 9, 201576 A little change in the lineup of the Sziget Festival 2015: the 3AM spot of the A38 stage on Saturday the 15th was filled by DJ Marky & Stamina MC, followed by Statik (who also performed at VOLT festival last week after Sigma). The dnb duo has been announced a long time ago - they were to perform after Sigma on Sunday the 16th, but were moved to the 3AM spot on Saturday instead. Marky is a veteran DJ, with his career stretching back to the early 1990s. He was "discovered" by a record label in 1998, while scratching in a club in
Turrentine Jones Wins Sziget 2015 Facebook Voting Contest 2015 line up A38 Stage confirmed Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News July 6, 2015July 15, 201542 Update: It has been confirmed that the band will perform on the British Knights Europe Stage on Sunday the 16th, at 13:00. Manchester (UK) based indie / rock / blues / blues rock band Turrentine Jones has gathered an overwhelming majority of the votes (3,657 of them) during the Sziget 2015 Facebook Voting Contest, knocking out bands like Plastic Barricades (UK), Princess Eud & Ded Kra-Z (Haiti) who finished second and third. This means that Turrentine Jones will have the chance to make its voice heard and its name well known through a gig on the Europe Stage, on the 16th (Sunday),
Oliver Heldens, The Horrors, Kwabs @ Sziget 2015 2015 line up A38 Stage confirmed main Stage Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News June 30, 2015July 2, 2015120 Update: The Thing Things (UK) will play the Main Stage on the 13th at 17:45, leaving the MS with only one spot left to fill (Sunday, the 16th, at 17:45). The A38 stage has a new open spot - the 13th @ 22:00, while the 3AM slot on Saturday the 15th is still blank. Here are the latest names included in the Sziget 2015 lineup: The Horrors (UK) - Main Stage, 12th of August (17:45) One of the great new guitar acts on the British musical scene, The Horrors are to be commended for one of the best musical materials released lately in the
Sziget 2015 Facebook Voting Contest – The Candidates 2015 line up Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News June 17, 2015294 The game is on: the attendees and fans of Sziget Festival will get to decide which of the applicable bands will get the chance to play at this year's Sziget Festival. To do so, they need to vote their favorite band and get their friends to do the same during the Sziget 2015 Facebook Voting Contest. The voting has started almost a week ago, and it goes on until the 30th of June (sorry for the late update) through this page. Here is the list of the bands participating in the contest (sorted according to the number of votes received so
Magic Mirror – 15th Anniversary! Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News June 15, 201569 Although not entirely music related, here is the latest announcement for Sziget 2015: Magic Mirror - the “hetero friendly” queer venue of Sziget Festival - is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. It will be hosted in a classic Spiegeltent, constructed in wood and canvas decorated with mirrors. The programs include round table sessions on LMBT issues, film screenings, variety shows with drag queens, acrobats, dancers,international and Hungarian performers, like Gloria Viagra, Sally Morell, Alex Shchukin, Sergey Timofeev, Szulita & Dennis and many more. Parties will continue till sunrise with DJs like Tama Sumo (Ostgut Ton, Berlin) and Manuel De Diego (Madrid),
Announcement: Kings of Leon @ Sziget 2015 (Main Stage) main Stage rock Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News June 4, 2015June 4, 2015214 Sziget Festival has just announced the next band to play the Main Stage of the event: Nashville rock band Kings of Leon. "We have been trying to lure the band for years, and now, after a negotiation marathon, we finally did it," Gerendai Károly said, "because - as they are not in Europe at that time and they usually have just a handful of gigs in the summer - we had to get them to fly over the ocean just for us." Judging by the comments at our previous posts, Kings of Leon will be an act that divides: some of our visitors expressed
Lineup Announced So Far – Daily Breakdown (38.3%) 2015 line up A38 Stage Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News World Music Stage May 22, 2015May 28, 2015363 UPDATE: all of this information and more, in our traditional lineup page for Sziget 2015, which will be updated on a constant basis. A lot of things about the lineup of the Sziget Festival 2015 have been announced these days, and there is a lot of speculation going on about who will fill the rest of the over 60% of the empty spots this year. We won't speculate - we have only compiled a list of the acts already announced with their dates and stages. Here we go: Day -1 (August 10th) lineup Robbie Williams (Main Stage) Apollonia (Colosseum) Day 0 (August 11th) lineup Florence & The Machine (Main
Announcement: The Script, Major Lazer, C2C and others 2015 line up confirmed headliner line-up Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News May 21, 201544 Another week, another announcement of new names added to the lineup of the 2015 Sziget Festival. And there are some big names on the list, too: Asaf Avidan The Script Major Lazer C2C Arty Asaf Avidan is an Israeli musician, singer and songwriter, a former animator from Tel Aviv who has been guided toward the stage by a broken heart (this explains a lot about his style). He is currently on tour with his new album, Gold Shadow, released this January, so expect to hear lots of new songs from him (which will not be new for his fans). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jld7sqnS4Ew The Script is a Dublin based pop-rock trio, winner
Announcement: Stages and Acts 2015 line up A38 Stage Blues Stage Europe Stage line-up main Stage Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News World Music Stage May 14, 2015May 14, 2015466 Besides today's press conference, the Sziget Festival 2015's organizers have also released a communique to shed some light on which acts to expect on which stage. Without further ado, here are the lists. Stages and acts confirmed today: Main Stage Day -1: Winner of the Nagy-Szín-Pad talent show Irie Maffia Robbie Williams Day 0: Gentleman & the Evolution Quimby Florence and the Machine The rest of the days: Alt-J Ellie Goulding Avicii Martin Garrix (End Show) Kasabian Limp Bizkit Hollywood Undead Foals Marina and the Diamonds Gogol Bordello The Maccabees Awolnation Punnany Massif World Music Stage Dhoad Gypsies from Rajastan Taraf de Haïdouks Goran Bregovic Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar The Egyptian Project Romengo Parno Graszt Mariza LaBrassBanda She’Koyokh Noura Mint Seymali Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble Imam Baildi Roy Paci & Aretuska Allstars Antwerp GipsySka Orkestar HK & Les Saltimbanks DakhaBrakha Che Sudaka La Chiva Gantiva Canzoniere
Competing Festivals Swipe Sziget Headliners in 2015 2015 line up A38 Stage headliner main Stage programme Sziget 2015 sziget festival Sziget News May 14, 2015April 14, 201642 Although the budget of the Sziget Festival has grown to 4.4 billion HUF (over $16 million or 14 million euros) the current list of headliners to participate at this year's edition might not be as great as expected, the festival's organizers announced in a press conference today. Last year the festival's date was pushed back to avoid overlapping with major US and Japanese festivals. This year the above mentioned events will start later as well. This means that the organizers of Sziget might again be in trouble. Still, according to lead organizer Gerendai Károly, the interest in the festival is unbroken after
