Gordon Moakes, the bassist of Bloc Party, before their first show on Sziget gave us some minutes and confirmed the news: they’ll have a year off.
Manchester duo, Ting Tings broke into the music scene in 2008 with their That’s Not My Name single, but in fact, there is a long history behind them.
Miss Platnum could help the country image of Romania, because she is mixing Balkan Beat with hip hop in such a great way, that she could conquer Berlin.
Tricky, who left Massive Attack to pursue a solo career in the mid-90s and had a major hit with his Maxinquaye album, came back after a five year break with his latest effort Knowle West Boy last year. But in fact, he’s got another two records up in his sleeve.
White Lies, the most promising British band of the year, brought its debut album, To Lose My Life, to the Sziget. We caught up with bassist cum lyricist Charles Cave before the gig.
From Love Music Hate Racism Allstars Special I talked with Sam Duckworth. About racism, multiculuralism and living from the heart.
We spoke with Greg Dorey British Ambassador about the event, but we also asked him about his opinion of Hungary and we managed to get the list of his favourite Hungarian bands, too.
The four organisations initiating the record attempt would like to illustrate it with mandala painting, that as a psychic patient quasi impossible to live though so.
The Australian rockers can hardly wait until they will be able to meet their fans on 14th August, Friday afternoon, during their concert on the Main Stage of Sziget Festival 2009!
On August 11, Day 0 of Sziget, Hungarian pop, rock and jazz musicians, international guests, as well as world famous musicians from Miles Davies' circle will play a 10-hour gig protesting against racism.
Here, there and everywhere - here is the map of this years Sziget. Stages, camping, ATMs, pharmacy and so on. Let us put you in the picture!
As well as the great guitar virtuoso, Al Di Meola, the talented fado singer, Ana Moura, the traditional tango singer, Oana Chiţu, or Emily Loizeau, experimenting with music, will appear on the Amfiteatrum-Pécs2010 Stage.
The great thing about Sziget is that while at one spot the party is swinging, somewhere else the sound of world music is grooving. And still, there are many more different stages and plethora music styles to tune into. It's all happening during the second week of August.
The Burn Party Arena's mega-tent is to host an extended line-up for lovers of the electronic genre, including the likes of José Padilla, Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, Armin van Buuren, The Crystal Method, Coldcut and Birdy Nam Nam, among many distinguished others.
The world famous theatre group from Barcelona, La Fura dels Baus, celebrates its 30th anniversary at this year's Sziget Festival. To give you a taste of what their performance is like, La Fura dels Baus have delighted readers of sziget.hu with a montage of their previous performances.