Mondays have bad press: they’re like the Pol Pot of weekdays- as such, I always felt tender compassion for the week’s most detested day since, unlike Pol Pot, Mondays are entirely innocent. They can’t be blamed for our deep seated hatred of work and ill-adjustment to life in general. They just happen each week and…
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She Past Away @ Show Barlang
One of the points of urban subcultures is that you all look the same. It’s like a safety net in a jungle of fashions and musical styles: if I put on my skinny jeans and band T-shirt and go to one of those things called brit parties around here, I can safely bet I’ll listen…
Omar Souleyman and Hercules and Love Affair @ Electronic Beats Festival
Budapest quite often gets to be the second best something- its coffee is second best to London, it’s the second best Central European destination after Prague, its Italian restaurants are second best to generally anything in Italy, overall it’s a second best Vienna and its clubs are second best to Berlin. It’s this ‘second…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2015: #1 Interpol
The other day I was reading a couple of reviews of the much awaited Benedict Cumberbatch does Hamlet project, and one of them ran the totally unexpected title of “Benedict is a bloody good Hamlet says his mum”. My placing Interpol as the best concert of Sziget probably looks like a similarly objective and factual…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2015: #2 Foals
There’s always one concert on every Sziget that doesn’t immediately feel great for any number of absurd reasons. Like you have a cramp in your left toe, the crowd around you is fidgetier than an anthill, the bottom left stage reflector is pointed straight at your over sensitive retina, and the list can go on…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2015: #3 Fauve
I know how it feels. There goes the hipster getting excited about an obscure band from an obscure land singing in an obscure language. No offence to the French, but in the world of music it’s English and the obscure. French music has however always been my very kind of obscure, since yes, it does…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2015: #4 Kasabian
Anyone who knows me and has at least partial access to my dementia has probably been bored stiff by the story of how I saw Kasabian in Pecsa with a handful of people back when they were considerably less known in this part of the world. I do totally confess to being guilty as charged,…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2015: #5 Gogol Bordello
It would be very easy for Gogol Bordello to fall into that category of world music acts that become completely satisfied with their portion of the scene and deliver the same concert every year for decades or so. Yet I am at the fifth show in about eight years and I can safely say none…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2015: #6 MØ
Speaking of reviews that blow your fuse, the other day I accidentally bumped into one which had the exquisite talent of calling MØ Diplo’s little protegee, thus graciously wiping out the existence of a sea of fabulous music that existed before MØ kindly agreed to make Diplo’s endeavours marginally interesting, if only for the length…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2015: #8 Passenger and #7 Florence and the Machine
As I had already confessed in one of my pre-Sziget line up round ups, Passenger for me kept being the guy with that intensively radio friendly song. And before we blow things out of proportion: intensively radio friendly is not a derogatory term at all, it simply denominates a very catch tune I very much…
Pocket Diary Budapest 