The reason why I love walking to work, besides the recent study concluding that if you move enough you can reasonably hope that a can of soda here and there won’t kill you- and I WILL fight for my soda-is that I happen to cross the best neighbourhoods in town. I set off from the…
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Austra @ Dürer Kert
This autumn promises to be the best in living memory when it comes to club concerts in Budapest- for while the city’s musical crowd cannot yet support arena concerts all that well, except the accidental Kylie or Gaga, club concerts should be the blast, especially on A38. Dürer Kert generally has a somewhat different, metal tinted…
Dub FX in Erzsébet Square
There was much comotion on Erzsébet square yesterday evening when the senior citizens of the area could not walk their minute dogs through it, Japanese tourists could not take satisfactory pictures of the fountain and all decent beer was gone in no time from the shelves of the closest supermarket. The reason behind this horror…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2014 #1: Queens of the Stone Age
It probably seems a bit lacking in imagination to go for Queens of the Stone Age for the best Sziget concert as they were of course one of the more hyped acts. Yet we can admit that, with a lot of expectations weighing down on their shoulders, their falling flat on their faces was also…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2014 #2: Miles Kane
Miles Kane gets to be The Other Guy a lot. Being the other guy to Alex Turner is of course spectacularly better than being the other guy to say Macklemore, but it’s still grandly unfair. And frankly the best he could expect in Budapest was to be no guy at all- many people crowding the…
Best Concerts of Sziget #3: Yasmine Hamdan
Jim Jarmusch is a man of many talents, like discovering the music you always wanted to listen to, but never knew where to look for it. On this particular occasion you’d have to go to Beirut via Paris (or Paris via Beirut, depends on how you look at it), just like Jarmusch’s eternally journeying vampires…
Best Concerts of Sziget #4: La Roux
La Roux had the seemingly daunting task of going head to head with Calvin Harris spitting fire on the main stage. Sure enough, halfway through her performance there were apocalyptic sounds coming from behind the A38 tent- not Harris himself mercifully, but the deafening rumble of the fireworks being shot into the great wide open….
Blink 182 @ Sziget 2014
The co-editor of the blog made it clear that we must be impartial and inform all those interested that he thought Blink 182 were great. He did not further elaborate as to why they were great, so we can only conclude that some people will always be transported to their high school/college years by Blink,…
Sziget 2014 Diary: Day Five
The last day was to be kicked off on the VOLT stage with Hangmás, who would in all likelihood be a tad more popular in a country more attuned to indie than Hungary, but as things stand they were relegated to an awkward half past three slot, where they tried their best to please a…
Sziget 2014 Diary- Day Three
Thursday was so implausibly good in spite of the rain that Friday seemed to be doomed to the fate of a bit of a letdown- or a slower day in the least. This was well reflected in the dwindling number of people arriving to the main stage for the 4 o’clock slot, held by…
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