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…
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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…
Flash Forward to Summer: New Names in the Sziget Line Up
These days I’ve been reading Sylvie Simmons’s excellent biography of Leonard Cohen, because what better way to spend February than in the company of the godfather of gloom. Though actually the man had become increasingly more at peace with himself and this miserable universe of ours towards the end of his life, thanks in good…
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….