As mentioned in the ridiculously useful things to do in Budapest post, Dürer Kert is February’s star when it comes to club concerts, a fact which has been placed into a new, and quite fortuitous light by the fact that besides one of the unholy trinity of ubiquitous Hungarian commercial beers (I am letting you…
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Stray Dogg, iamyank and I Wear*Experiment @ BUSH
Everything’s an acronym if you’re brave enough, but some acronyms are better than others. This was the outline along which my thoughts were twirling when, earlier this autumn, I became aware of the existence of the Budapest Showcase Hub, BUSH for short. The idea itself is rather welcome: a conference centered on the promotion of…
Tricky presents Skilled Mechanics @ A38
I’ve always had a penchant for eavesdropping and got to feel better about it reading that many novelists do too- the similarities between me and them pretty much end here. But the truth is, listening in to a story that’s undisturbed by your own intervention is a perfect way to learn, about the people who…
Bat for Lashes @ Electronic Beats Budapest
Since I’ve finally vanquished my innate laziness and switched our blog to a shiny new platform (one of those things I’ve meant to do for ages and can’t believe I’ve actually made it) I had to run through our old posts and came to the rather saddening conclusion that this autumn’s concert offering is a…
Emilíana Torrini @ A38
In an autumn of raucous sold out gigs, there was something positively soothing in the subdued atmoshpere of Emilíana Torrini’s concert. The crowd was a bit slow to gather and only really filled out the ship’s hold during the first song, but even so, there was always plenty of space to move and breathe, both…
Triggerfinger @ A38
For a country teetering on the brink of de-country-fying itself one of these days, Belgium is doing quite fine on the musical front. Not only did they produce the sublime dEUS, but they’ve also unleashed Triggerfinger on the unsuspecting continent, prompting us to immediately google their home town of Lier- it’s close to Antwerp, mind…
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…
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…
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