Before we even start, here is a little something I wrote last year, and the same disclaimer applies this year too. This account is personal and subjective, and means no harm to your favourite band/artist if I happened not to vibe with them. Feel free to enjoy the photos. And dislike my favourite bands, if…
Tag: Sziget
Through Our Lenses: Sziget 2024 Days 1&2
We’ll start with a disclaimer, and a metaphysical observation of sorts: this year, increasingly often, I felt that a band/artist sounds like a tweaked version of someone else, or a mate remarked on the same. Therefore, we undertook some Pilsner imbued thinking on why this is the case. Arguments being brought up were the scary…
Finding Ways Out: Editors at Sziget 2024
When drawing up lists of favourite shows at festivals, people tend to end up, unsurprisingly, with their favourite band on top. It’s the nature of the festival beast: you’re more than often buzzing around like a bee in search of the most delicious musical nectar, and, when discovering something that sounds fresh, might still move…
Through Our Lenses: Sziget 2023 Days 5&6
Caroline Polachek and Lorde, Monday, August 14, Main Stage The ladies have been bundled in together not only because they performed together Lorde’s Green Light, but because, even before the duet, the two shows seemed intriguingly interconnected, like two sides of the same coin. Musically, I would always go for Lorde. It recently dawned on…
Through Our Lenses: Sziget 2023 Days 3&4
TV Girl, Saturday, August 12, Freedome Stage There are two basic types of ‘concert epiphanies’ on Sziget: the one where you realise that you really enjoy listening to a band’s recordings, but they don’t really work live. And the one where you just stop by to listen to an artist you find underwhelming, or don’t…
Through Our Lenses: Sziget 2023 Days 1&2
Let’s begin with a disclaimer: the complex power dynamics of the Sziget photo pit results in only the apex predators being allowed in for pictures to most Main Stage headliners, with a few notable exceptions. As such, this coverage will not include concerts that we did enjoy, such as Florence and the Machine and Billie…
This Fire In My Hands: Franz Ferdinand and Richard Ashcroft (Best Concerts of Sziget 2019 Part Six)
The crowd was a bit tetchy, perhaps bored, people doing the compulsory drinks and toilet rounds, the festival circuit of water in nature, from beer to stomach to mobile toilet. There was texting, snapchatting and whatsapping, modern(er) technologies replacing the desperate battle cry of ‘I am in front of the main stage where are you’…
Be the Cowboys: Jain, Years and Years, Tove Lo and Alma (Best Concerts of Sziget 2019 Part Five)
I will call this the ‘festival feel good gig’ section and will readily admit that I did not stay through all of these concerts. Except Alma’s, as I was making a political statement of sorts to pretty much no one but myself about being seriously underwhelmed by Foo Fighters and choosing ‘girly’ pop over ‘manly’…
Europe Stage Exotica: Hearts Hearts and Satellites (Best Concerts of Sziget 2019 Part Three)
I’ve already written a bit about my Hearts Hearts story (because I have one) in this year’s preview post, and also about what it feels like staying in front of the Europe Stage for ‘smaller bands’, whatever that tag means- Alma started her Sziget adventure on the Europe Stage, has progressed to A38 and, if…
About a Saturday: The National and James Blake at Sziget 2019 (Best Concerts Part Two)
It was a perfect night, so I’ll start by complaining. The National had been delighting me with special posters for all their previous shows during this tour (evidence to be admired on their Instagram), they didn’t have one for Sziget. James Blake had been playing Assume Form, my favourite track from his latest album, as…
Pocket Diary Budapest 