It probably seems a bit lacking in imagination to go for Queens of the Stone Age for the best Sziget concert as they were of course one of the more hyped acts. Yet we can admit that, with a lot of expectations weighing down on their shoulders, their falling flat on their faces was also…
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Best Concerts of Sziget 2014 #2: Miles Kane
Miles Kane gets to be The Other Guy a lot. Being the other guy to Alex Turner is of course spectacularly better than being the other guy to say Macklemore, but it’s still grandly unfair. And frankly the best he could expect in Budapest was to be no guy at all- many people crowding the…
Best Concerts of Sziget #3: Triggerfinger
Our total awe at the might of Triggerfinger having already been plentifully expressed, we take the liberty of having them share the third place on the podium for best concerts with Yasmine Hamdan. You might inquire why they aren’t first, given all that awesomeness bundled into one majestic unit of Belgianness, and the answer is, well,…
Best Concerts of Sziget #3: Yasmine Hamdan
Jim Jarmusch is a man of many talents, like discovering the music you always wanted to listen to, but never knew where to look for it. On this particular occasion you’d have to go to Beirut via Paris (or Paris via Beirut, depends on how you look at it), just like Jarmusch’s eternally journeying vampires…
Blink 182 @ Sziget 2014
The co-editor of the blog made it clear that we must be impartial and inform all those interested that he thought Blink 182 were great. He did not further elaborate as to why they were great, so we can only conclude that some people will always be transported to their high school/college years by Blink,…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2014 #5: Stromae
The one with the crowd hysteria that seemed to escape us: thanks to Bonobo, who could interest us, and Macklemore and The Other Guy on the Main Stage, who couldn’t, we were nicely ensconced in the A38 tent before the stream of rabid Stromae fans started arriving.There was apparently much hyperventilation, pushing and shoving and some anger…
Sziget 2014 Diary: Day Five
The last day was to be kicked off on the VOLT stage with Hangmás, who would in all likelihood be a tad more popular in a country more attuned to indie than Hungary, but as things stand they were relegated to an awkward half past three slot, where they tried their best to please a…
Sziget 2014 Diary- Day Three
Thursday was so implausibly good in spite of the rain that Friday seemed to be doomed to the fate of a bit of a letdown- or a slower day in the least. This was well reflected in the dwindling number of people arriving to the main stage for the 4 o’clock slot, held by…
Sziget 2014 Diary- Day Two
So this year’s Sziget ticked another box and duly had its rain day too- or as the Brits in attendance call it, fine summer festival weather, a tad humid but not too chilly.Which pretty much meant a downpour and people scurrying to the merchandise tents for some plastic sheet to wrap themselves in. The…
Sziget 2014 Diary- Day One
It’s the first day in full swing, and a hot and humid one- long queues clog the entrances and all the locations are now up and running. There’s circus and opera, street theatres and movies, a beach and a gym, so it seems a bit of a stereotype choice to start the day at…
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