When I finally go to see Pulp, The Stones Roses and Blur on Sziget a good decade or two after their heyday, I could not help feeling just a bit left out- they were a generation or so older than mine, and when I finally got around to listening to Blur’s first albums with a…
Category: VOLT
Cool Sounds of VOLT
Every festival has a concert where you end up accidentally and have a hell of a time. This time around it was Irie Maffia. Irie Maffia Irie Maffia. And there’s also a concert where you end up and you wish you hadn’t. No doubt I Am Legion are good at what they…
The Merry and The Mindless- 30 Seconds to Mars and Steve Aoki at VOLT
If you don’t have one half decent song, worry not. Give them some balloons, their festival going arses love themselves some balloons. Oh my Gaaawd, JARED! I mean JESUS. And here comes JESUS with the Hungarian flag. So touching. Why do I have an eerie feeling he’ll be playing at least one Hungarian…
Foals @ VOLT Festival
Sending Foals on before Thirty Seconds to Mars and Steve Aoki is a bit like making it to the final four of the World Cup and then shooting yourself in the leg. There is of course absolutely no sense and logic in the existence of the latter two acts: neither of them play music, nor…
Hangmás@ Nagy-Szín-Pad
Oh Lord! Not another talent show- well, it isn’t, it’s something a bit more exciting than that: 15 already (mostly) popular bands fight it out to make it to the main stage of this summer’s major Hungarian festivals, with the winner getting to open for none else but the magnificent Arctic Monkeys at this year’s…
Pocket Diary Budapest 