Before we even start, here is a little something I wrote last year, and the same disclaimer applies this year too. This account is personal and subjective, and means no harm to your favourite band/artist if I happened not to vibe with them. Feel free to enjoy the photos. And dislike my favourite bands, if…
Category: concert
Finding Ways Out: Editors at Sziget 2024
When drawing up lists of favourite shows at festivals, people tend to end up, unsurprisingly, with their favourite band on top. It’s the nature of the festival beast: you’re more than often buzzing around like a bee in search of the most delicious musical nectar, and, when discovering something that sounds fresh, might still move…
How a Lute Creates the World- Josef Van Wissem @ A38
The boat shimmers in the distance, neon reflections over the Danube on an eerily balmy October evening. I always feel a thrill when I get off the tram at Petőfi Híd, Budai hídfő- the name itself has become synonymous with intimations of happiness, hours of respite from the madness of our world, swaying on the…
Five Concerts You Shouldn’t Miss On Sziget
There was a point in the run up to this year’s Sziget when I felt I am somehow less happy with the lineup compared to other years, maybe I still feel, just a little, that this is the case. Nevertheless, I did manage to summon five names that I’m really looking forward to seeing, and…
A Case of Scandi Happy Sad:Peter Bjorn and John @ A38
For a Saturday night with a fairly well known act, the crowd was somewhat scarce, which plunged me into an analytical mood over my beer. It may be the price of the ticket, which was above the boat’s general average for a band that has not been very much in the limelight lately. The tour…
When I Grow Up I Want To Be Neneh Cherry
In an anecdote I sometimes tell my younger friends to amuse them, a considerable part of my late childhood and early teens were spent in front of our TV set, in a sort of limbo. I would turn on MTV and wait for songs I liked. The songs that came in between were marginally interesting…
We Need To Talk About Tommy- Tommy Cash @ Dürer Kert
Good merch goes a long way, and Tommy Cash (better said, TOMM¥ €A$H, but I’m lazy to use all those special characters each time), the tongue-in cheek capitalist minded offshoot of a post socialist republic knows that all too well. There are hoodies with the simple yet effective message of ’cash’, socks in the same…
Best of 2018- Concerts
It’s probably high time I stopped introducing the best concert round up with complaints as to how every big band always avoids Budapest vs remarks as to how some bands actually don’t and the year wasn’t so bad after all, and I promise to do just that. Next year. As for this one, let’s tick…
Play It Like a Woman- Anna Calvi @ A38
When I was a kid, I used to play football with the boys, and, in all fairness, some girls too. We were all perhaps too young to get the implications, we just played. For manifold reasons in my case. Principally because I sucked at all the things girls were supposed to be good at, like…
Pleasures of the Over-familiar: Goran Bregović Wedding and Funeral Band @ Arad Open Air Festival
When you are a regular concert goer of a certain age, you reach a point where some gigs attain an almost mythical status which manifests itself in your retelling them in the Homeric tradition to anyone who cares to listen, with details varying slightly from account to account to the degree that you yourself, and…
Pocket Diary Budapest 