Italian appetizer, a guitar-legend, rockandroll from this side of Leitha and number of the beast.

It was the day of great entertainers, all great in their own genre: ska, reggae, cool pop and Martian rock music, all these on Friday 13th on the Main Stage.

Friday's absolute headliner, Thirty Seconds to Mars answered the questions of many curious journalists in the afternoon. We had the chance to sit down with  Tomo Miličević who revealed us that he has a bit of Hungarian blood running in his veins, and he first grabbed the guitar because of Metallica.

The duo of Simian Mobile Disco had the sudden urge in the middle if the night to let journalist intrude on their mind. James Ford came to the interview with a bottle of whiskey and even a few minutes before leaving for home, we still had a vivid discussion of Beth Ditto and how to fuel the audience.

The turn of the eighties is back – at least two big heros have brought back the great moments of the era right on the Main Stage of Sziget, while heros and international superstars of the presents have also put up their flags. There were many of us...

After the final countdown, one of Hungary's most popular bands, the 23 year-old Kispál és a borz has made its farewell, within the compass of a three-hour long show on Sziget's minus first day. Confettis, kitchen, stadium-rock and intimate club-stage - all of these came back, together with their greatest and most ancient hits, for one last time. 

On 16th August at 11.00 pm, the Hungarian audience will be introduced to the worldwide- known instrument called Reactable for the first time by Marcus Alonso, Sergi Jorda, Günter Geiger and Martin Kaltenbrunner, within the compass of EU-Trio Fókusz venue's afterparty.

Smart, useful and your iPhone is on you all the time. Here you’ll find all the festival information you need: concerts times, venues, performers, an interactive map and more in an easy to navigate interface.

There's only three days untill the beggining of the 18th Sziget Festival. Check our gallery to see how the biggest festival of Hungary building.

We are pleased to introduce the Sziget card to this year’s festival. The Sziget card was developed to make payments on the festival easier, safer and faster. We think cashless payments are a good thing – keeping all your festival money and change on a card is safer and easier than carrying cash, and transactions taking up 3 seconds makes it definitely faster too.

Sziget is a huge experience in itself, but it's still not everything! Festival visitors can enter a bunch of places with their undamaged wristbands such as thermal spas, museums and the Budapest fun-fair!

Sziget Office is sorry to announce that deadma5's gig scheduled for 15th August (Sunday) is cancelled due to health reasons. We hope deadmau5 will get well soon, and we are truly sorry for the program-change. 

The official 2010-program guide of Sziget will be out next week, you can find the special edition titled Time Out in English and French. Everything you need to know about this year's greatest Hungarian festival in one place; programs, useful information, special features, descriptions and plenty of other stuff a festival-goer may need.

Get the best out of you throughout the best week of the year, and plan all your personal programs well in advance with the help of the online program guide!

To make sure you feel as confortable as possible at Sziget, there are plenty of services. Laundry service, post office, internet tent, lockers for valuables and bicycles as well, ATM, exhchange, just to mention a few... Just like at home!

"The ship is swimming in the streets of your city. Its mysterious crew is ready to conquer the unknown. Wherever the ship stops, the city wakes up and changes its shape: gardens turn into paradise bays, parks change to beautiful coral reefs and perhaps even a treasure island..." Sziget's this ...years street theatre highlight Malabar Company are doing wonders, carrying Sziget-inhabitants right into the realms of dreams and humour, between 11th and 15th August, every day, from 10 pm. Will you be there?

The hundreds of thousands of music and technology fans whose life revolves around being always connected will be the first people to try Szigetfone, especially developed for Sziget festival-goers, Sziget InfoSMS, a free text message service with useful information and updates and a top up card payment system.