The advantage of taking a male photographer to the concert of a chanson singer in a tight black dress is that you don’t really have to move a finger to have hundreds of pictures. The disadvantage is that you have to go through all of them and check which one is best. We…
Category: Budapest
The Budapest Saint Patrick’s Day Parade 2015
Brendan Behan claimed that the Irish do not have a nationality, but a psychosis, which might be correct- and it might also be contagious. No other nation in the world, particularly not a relatively tiny one, with 6 million people stranded on a remote island, could generate such a commotion in a Central European capital…
First Day of Spring
On which it is settled that there is a quiet daffodil crisis unfolding in Budapest (there are much less than in other years, and logically, they’re more expensive), but the trees on Gellért hill are blooming slightly ahead of schedule. The Várkert Bazár is pretty in theory, but still flawed in practice. There are…
The Island when it’s not THE island- The (Snowless) Winter Edition
I spent the whole winter waiting patiently. It will come, yes it will. The snow. There’ll be one snow that lasts for more than a day, covers more than a centimetre of ground. And then we will go to take the “Sziget in winter” white, fluffy shots. Well, that snow didn’t come, so we had…
The Raveonettes and BOKKA on A38
New year, same boat and the Raveonettes are back in town with a new album- we can only wish some other acts would make A38 a must on their tours. They even graced us with two opening acts, of which, we must confess, we skipped the first based on some alien sounds coming from the…
The island when it’s not THE island
It might be a bit surprising that in 10+ years of living in Budapest I’d never been to the island when it wasn’t THE island. I guess I never thought of it as anything else than a loud, hot, beautiful chaos of people and sounds. So it was quite startling to see it as, well,…
Electronic Beats Festival Budapest
Electronic Beats festival is always a nice reminder of the summer festival season come autumn. Last year even the weather was decidedly summery, but this time we had no such luck- the smokers were huddling in the freeze in slightly inebriated and a tad grumpy flocks as we arrived (un)fashionably late, missing Joy Wellboy. For…
Time for Those Foggy Mornings
Every year people complain that winter comes suddenly: there’s Indian summer and then the freezing winds of the Arctic, and you can’t ever really wear your autumn jacket because you’re either too hot or too cold in it. I am coming to think that the famous transition period- probably should be October-never really existed. It’s…
Budapest Says No
We don’t always protest, but when we do, it’s because we must. There’s many silly things Hungary’s current government has done, but taxing the Internet is probably the silliest. Not necessarily because we couldn’t live with another 700 forints a month sent to the state’s already greedy pockets, but because access to information for everyone…
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…
Pocket Diary Budapest 