So I’ve already expounded on how I always wait for the first of January to compile my yearly lists (though I did cheat with the books this time around), because what if I have an epiphany on the 31st of December. Frankly, it’s never happened, and although I did watch movies on the train this…
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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…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #1: Editors
I could theoretically come up with a spectacular and convoluted story about how I spent more of those restless nights musing over whom to place at number one, preparing sophisticated charts, organizing one woman brainstorming sessions and using state of the art data analysis apps to weigh the pros and cons of each performance. I…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #2: The Last Shadow Puppets
For about five fractions of a second I was planning to pen a super objective review which would make no reference whatsoever to the slightly subjective points below, but there’s absolutely no fun in that so I gave up immediately and I will therefore, in random order, very much insist on: how in my…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #3: Aurora
It’s of course easy to say that when you’re stuck somewhere in a Norwegian fjord, where for the better part of the year it’s either rainy, misty, snowing, or a fortuitous combination of all three, there’s not much to do, so perhaps you start dabbling with some creative enterprise at an age where children blessed…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #4 Ceza
The temptation to portray yourself as a sophisticated know it all of the festival circuit has led many to pen list upon list of the least known, but obviously most exciting acts to grace a particular event- although the season now draws to a close, rosters are still born uncovering the hidden gems of the…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #5: Chvrches
There comes that silly moment in your life when you’re facing Sziget’s main stage on which Noel Gallagher is performing some mighty nice music and you feel comfortable and at peace with the forces of the universe and therefore decide to look back in anger and promptly storm off to the A38 tent for some…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #6: Bloc Party
It kind of ups your indie credential if you have a song, possibly from an old (read: first) album, possibly a big hit (read: your biggest hit ever) that you then conscientiously refuse to play live. It paints you in fashionable faded grays as a difficult, tormented artist producing over catchy hits which you then…
Pocket Diary Budapest 