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…
Category: Sziget 2016
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…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #7: Die Antwoord
I once spent a good bit of a flight trying not to watch Chappie, Neil Blomkamp’s disturbed brainchild involving Ninja and Yolandi Visser.The reviews had been pretty bad and I felt like a flight with possible turbulence over Oltenia calls for something lighter and more straightforward, which happened to be a rather bland comedy involving…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #8: UNKLE
All I can remember about the previous time I saw UNKLE on the island is that I was very tired and I liked it. Well, not being tired, but the concert itself. Speaking of being tired- it is pretty much self-understood that as you age, you are supposed to become worse at festivaling and will…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #9: M83
As the A38 tent became larger and more centrally situated, the organizers started packing it with ever better acts, so much so that it technically became the festival’s main attraction to a rather numerous crowd, which numerous crowd gets stuck outside it every now and then. This is promptly followed by floods of complaints about…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #10: Róisín Murphy and Bastille
Last year I began the best concert countdown with the remark of how strong the line up was, so this year, for a change, I’ll whine a bit. An activity which can be strangely energizing, as a matter of fact, just like reviewing a bad concert is often more satisfying than doing the same with…
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