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…
Category: Sziget festival
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…
New Sziget Names: Kasabian and Interpol (And Some Bands Who are Sadly Not Kasabian And Interpol)
Few things can propel me into a state of greater elation than the opportunity to raid the archives and then consequently re-share Interpol and Kasabian pictures. This makes the entire universe switch into a more satisfactory gear, and you can test the theory yourselves by perusing the gallery below. The reason for such delights, of…
Further Signs Christmas is Coming: First Names for Sziget 2017
Whenever you feel like perhaps you didn’t get exactly what you deserved from life, you might just need to think twice and see opportunity where there was lack. So here it goes then: we’re only at the first Sziget 2017 announcement, and I can already venture into two of my favourite line up related activties….
67% of Budapest’s Islands
Lately I’ve been assaulting Google with those kind of dumb questions which then cause major merriment when the auto fill helps out your queries. The first one, namely the identity of Guus Hiddink’s wife (don’t ask why, though it almost made sense at that time, no, really, it did.) was already helped by the auto fill-…
It’s Always the Shoes- Sziget One Month On
In case you thought it’s too early to think about next year’s Sziget, think again. The first super discounted tickets will be on sale for 25 hours on the the 25th of September- so okay, days on Sziget do seem at least 25 hours long, but the 25th of September hasn’t been officially prolonged,…
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…
Pocket Diary Budapest 