We begin the second installment of the Europe Stage review, naturally, with Canada. While this might sound odd, perhaps it isn’t, after all, the already mentioned Eurovision has adopted Australia, and I’d always thought Canada would be a great match too- in all honesty, they did once kind of send Céline Dion, albeit she belted…
Category: Sziget festival line up
The Europe Stage Round Up- Part One
Last week, amidst pre-Easter frenzy and other springtime fun, Sziget quietly dropped a big bunch of Europe Stage names, and the information that five day tickets are sold out-those who do not want to miss out still have the seven and three day options available, and of course daily tickets, but prices will hike once…
Lana and Ray- A March Bunch of Sziget Names
Any music lover will have that one friend, who, whenever confronted with the line up of any festival, will moderately to completely ignore the headliner(s) and go on a long, convoluted, scientific rant about how the seventh name in the fifth row of small letters is basically the band that makes the whole thing worthwhile and you…
Unfinished Monkey Business aka A Bunch of New Names for Sziget 2018
It has dawned on me, with certain amount of horror, that I have neglected mentioning the fact that the Arctic Monkeys are coming to Sziget, which is some sort of a crime, and one day, when a pigeon shits on my favourite cardigan, I will know bad karma came hurtling in my direction. Of course…
High Time for Excitement: The First Names of Sziget 2018
The first announcement for Sziget 2018 has been brewing for a long and strange time. It was first slated for mid-December, then postponed rather last minute, which might not have been the best boost for the festival’s credibility in its first full year under the helms of the new management, but at least it gave…
Everything I’ve Come to Expect: Ten Concerts to Look Forward to at Sziget 2017
Let us be honest: voices have been around whispering that this year’s Sziget, especially given that it’s an anniversary edition, has a weaker line up than it should, or could have had. Several possible reasons have been mentioned, such as the change in ownership, the passing of Dan Panaitescu, previously the festival’s main booker, or…
April Rain Brings Sziget Names
So I’ve been a horrible slacker and missed the last announcement, but, to my defense, it included only one name and that was Pink! She apparently needs an exclamation mark, though on the poster plastering the walls of the city this year, in which case we are to assume she is this edition’s Rihanna, and…
Sziget Names for the Ides of March
I will be very honest and admit that none of the new names made me jump for particular joy, but then again, one of the very first things I learned during my working career, and perhaps still the most important one, is that life is not a cookie factory. I also assume that there are…
I Was The Sziget Guinea Pig, So You Don’t Have to Be-The 2017 Edition
Since last year’s very efficient guinea pigging allowed me to put on the radar any previously unknown, but perhaps promising acts, thus avoiding that atrocious moment when you realize you kind of fancy someone right after they’ve played Sziget, I might as well make a tradition of it. Three Sziget announcements have given me enough material…
Flash Forward to Summer: New Names in the Sziget Line Up
These days I’ve been reading Sylvie Simmons’s excellent biography of Leonard Cohen, because what better way to spend February than in the company of the godfather of gloom. Though actually the man had become increasingly more at peace with himself and this miserable universe of ours towards the end of his life, thanks in good…
Pocket Diary Budapest 