I was once lying on the cold ice of the Városliget rink, face down, having just discovered that I can neither stand, nor stop or get up on ice, so basically the position I found myself in was also the only one available to me altogether at that point. It was however a good position…
Category: Akvárium
Strange Things: Agnes Obel @ Akvárium
I tend to take pride in the fact that I’m good at picking concerts. There was of course a period when hardly any noteworthy acts graced Budapest with their presence, so it was not so much a matter of choosing something, but of being there when anything happened. These days, however, the club scene is…
José González @ Akvárium
In the context of the present day musical scene, José González is an unfathomable anomaly. A soft-spoken man with a wild mane of hair, he arrives on stage almost apologetically, holding his guitar as a shield against whatever the world might expect of him. You’ll now imagine that this scene takes place in a small…
A Very Dark Show- Moderat @ Akvárium
Every now and then you like a film so much you take it with you pretty much everywhere- in one such development, whenever I listen to German electronic music of the Kraftwerk variety, I have a, well, let’s call it acid flashback of The Dude in the Coen brother’s Big Lebowski distrustfully staring at a…
June Random #1
June should be about getting used to summer, but this year it arrived in Budapest insisting very much that it’s all about scorching, hot summer, giant icy lemonades and cocktails, people lounging in the shade and windows open to all the noises of the night. I always felt there is a change in the texture…
Trentemøller@Akvárium
In retrospect, it is a real pity that I did not manage to sneak in a shot of First Hate, whose singer looks like a first level IT support helpdesk agent whose body has been inhabited by the ghost of Ian Curtis, voice, moves and all. The real business started in a very Scandinavian manner…
Hangmás@ Nagy-Szín-Pad
Oh Lord! Not another talent show- well, it isn’t, it’s something a bit more exciting than that: 15 already (mostly) popular bands fight it out to make it to the main stage of this summer’s major Hungarian festivals, with the winner getting to open for none else but the magnificent Arctic Monkeys at this year’s…
Akvárium (Kind of) Reloaded
Erzsébet tér (commonly confused with Deák, as the two basically flow into each other) used to be the home of Gödör, and half the city had a common heart attack when Gödör was kicked out- it’s now in exile in the Central passage, a somewhat unfortunate state of affairs, as Central passage is most definitely…
Pocket Diary Budapest 