This could very well be entitled the post I just had to come up with to shamelessly re-share our old Horrors pictures and be all smug about having guessed correctly they would join the line up as well. I can also express my elation at this having happened, and my bafflement at them…
Category: Sziget
The island when it’s not THE island
It might be a bit surprising that in 10+ years of living in Budapest I’d never been to the island when it wasn’t THE island. I guess I never thought of it as anything else than a loud, hot, beautiful chaos of people and sounds. So it was quite startling to see it as, well,…
Best Concerts of Sziget 2014 #1: Queens of the Stone Age
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…
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…
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 Minus One
Sziget should be globally considered as the mother of all festivals for the simple reason that it’s so much longer than most. This year the hardcore Sziget dwellers could move in as early as Saturday, and most venues were already fully functional, even if some will start their programme in earnest only on Wednesday. So…
Pocket Diary Budapest 