I was thinking I’d spare you the how could this be the last day lament, but I simply can’t. Time is crazy, crazier still when on the island and you always get to the moment when you realize this is it. All the little hidden stages you planned to visit this time around, not gonna…
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Everything but the Main Stage: Sziget 2017 Day Two
The Saturday Main Stage line up was blighted by two cancellations right in the run up to the festival (Rita Ora was replaced by Iggy Azalea and Clean Bandit by Galantis), yet it drew the largest crowd, close to the island’s full capacity. Locals who go out for only one day seemed to opt for…
Get The Party Started- Sziget Day Minus One
Alright, I’ll admit to my horrible little trick: I got Pink’s song title to headline the entry about the first day of Sziget (which is officially still minus one), because it’s so fitting, and then realized I hardly even feel like mentioning her concert, which might not be a pity after all, since everyone else…
Dark Beautiful Things: Cigarettes After Sex@A38
I might have mentioned it a couple of times already, but I honestly cannot fathom which concerts will sell out these days in Budapest, and why. (Apparently the Despacito person’s gig will sell out any time now, in his case I could confidently cover the which part, but will forever stay confused over the why.)…
Sziget 25: The Best Concerts So Far
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…
Dog Day Evening: Black Bartók @ A38
Sound Engineer’s Dog’s Log, Supplemental It’s hot, particularly so here on the deck. Spent most of the afternoon wondering what’s happening to me and the universe in general, and why am I so insanely hot. Concluded I’m here on the boat again, there’s a sound check for tonight’s concert, have no idea about the state…
Strange Things: Agnes Obel @ Akvárium
I tend to take pride in the fact that I’m good at picking concerts. There was of course a period when hardly any noteworthy acts graced Budapest with their presence, so it was not so much a matter of choosing something, but of being there when anything happened. These days, however, the club scene is…
Summoning the Light: Sóley @ A38
I had sat down in front of the computer intent on writing this review as quickly as I could, riding the wave of fresh impressions, which usually work best- the more you think about the concert the more it will become something you remember, instead of something you experienced. And we all know memory can…
A Most Punctual Man: Thomas Dybdahl @ A38
There are (at least) three ridiculously wonderful things about the roof terrace of A38: it’s in fact covered, so we could pay no mind to the possible impending storm, which actually never arrived, but then again it’s better to be safe than sorry. It’s so chill that the sound engineer’s dog can peacefully doze through…
José González @ Akvárium
In the context of the present day musical scene, José González is an unfathomable anomaly. A soft-spoken man with a wild mane of hair, he arrives on stage almost apologetically, holding his guitar as a shield against whatever the world might expect of him. You’ll now imagine that this scene takes place in a small…
Pocket Diary Budapest 