So one evening, while doing basically nothing, which is probably the perfect state to be be assaulted by Great Ideas, it dawned on me that since we are fast approaching an anniversary Sziget edition- 25 years for the festival itself, of which 15 years with me getting confused while looking for stages and missing acts…
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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…
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-…
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 #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…
Some Mondays are Better than Others- Sziget Day Four
The fourth day of the festival proved to be the polar opposite of the third when it comes to concerts, as if it was trying exceedingly hard to make up for being a Monday-not that you really know what day of the week is when you’re on Sziget: from 4 PM both the main stage…
Pocket Diary Budapest 