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…
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St Vincent @ A38
The lady is totally touched in the head- and that’s the most wonderful compliment there is. Why be normal, when you can be better? Musically speaking St Vincent might be an acquired taste- her songs are simply too complex to be liked immediately, but then try as I might, I still cannot get Rattlesnake out…
Caribou @ A38
In this autumn season of many delights, I was about to skip Caribou, but then of course you have friends to pester you into going and there was that 9/10 review in NME which piqued my interest. So I duly started listening to the lavishly praised “Our Love’, and it was quite alright. The opening…
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: Triggerfinger
Our total awe at the might of Triggerfinger having already been plentifully expressed, we take the liberty of having them share the third place on the podium for best concerts with Yasmine Hamdan. You might inquire why they aren’t first, given all that awesomeness bundled into one majestic unit of Belgianness, and the answer is, well,…
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….
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