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Summer Festivals!
Posted 18-03-2008 at 03:40 PM by Domino
2 blogs in one day?! you cry....
..yes
Budapest!
..yes
Budapest!Last summer I decided to eschew (look it up) british festivals in favour of going and trying the european equivilant.
My reasons for doing so were many - up until that point I'd been an avid Reading & Glastonbury goer, however raising prices, falling standards of bands and generally wanting to smack 90% of the people at these festivals in the chops meant I wasn't really up for it in 2007.
So that meant either spend the summer getting the network back up to spec or go abroad.
After my passport cam through I needed to decide which festival I was gonna ruin for everyone else.
After a bit of searching I happened across the Sziget festival in budapest.
Wikipedia says yes, you read that 350 000 people. on an island.
to put that in context, glastonburys capacity is 177,000 and Readings is 80,000. SO this is huge.
Last Years Main artists: Manu Chao (F), The Good, the Bad and the Queen (UK),The Chemical Brothers (UK), Gogol Bordello (USA), Laurent Garnier (F), Pink (USA), Madness (UK), The Rakes (UK), The Hives (S), Nine Inch Nails (USA), Razorlight (UK), Sinéad O'Connor (IRL), Faithless (UK), Tool (USA), Eagles Of Death Metal (USA), The Killers (USA), Quimby (H), Alpha Blondy (CIV), Tankcsapda (H), Kispál és a Borz (H) and Ennio Marchetto (IT)
however, there are a HUGE amount of other stages, everything from death metal to Jazz to Folk to Dance
In addition to music, the festival offers a plethora of other activities including cinema, dance, theatre, tattooing, Internet access, volleyball, tennis, football, bungee jumping and a life-sized foosball (which was awesome btw)
Also the city's gorgeous
There's fun and games
And the beers dirt cheap (90p a pint!) and the cocktails come in buckets
So yeah, a week long festival, for 120 Euros (90squid-ish with about 90 for flights). So a whole week of fun and games, for less than a glasto ticket.
No contest
Pictures http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...a&id=861960242
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http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...1&id=515312458
My reasons for doing so were many - up until that point I'd been an avid Reading & Glastonbury goer, however raising prices, falling standards of bands and generally wanting to smack 90% of the people at these festivals in the chops meant I wasn't really up for it in 2007.
So that meant either spend the summer getting the network back up to spec or go abroad.
After my passport cam through I needed to decide which festival I was gonna ruin for everyone else.
After a bit of searching I happened across the Sziget festival in budapest.
Wikipedia says
Quote:
The Sziget Festival (pronounced see'-get [see' has the quality (not length) of the vowel in the word seat]) is one of Europe's largest music and cultural festivals, held annually in August in Budapest, Hungary. The festival takes place on Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island"), an island on the Danube, thus Sziget stands for Island. Currently it boasts more than 1000 performances each year.
The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile 1993 student event to become one of the definitive European rock festivals by the late 1990's, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary. Attendancy rates surpassed the 250 000 mark in 1997 and the 350 000 mark in 2001. The all-time peak year was 2005 with 385 000 visitors.
The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile 1993 student event to become one of the definitive European rock festivals by the late 1990's, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary. Attendancy rates surpassed the 250 000 mark in 1997 and the 350 000 mark in 2001. The all-time peak year was 2005 with 385 000 visitors.
to put that in context, glastonburys capacity is 177,000 and Readings is 80,000. SO this is huge.
Last Years Main artists: Manu Chao (F), The Good, the Bad and the Queen (UK),The Chemical Brothers (UK), Gogol Bordello (USA), Laurent Garnier (F), Pink (USA), Madness (UK), The Rakes (UK), The Hives (S), Nine Inch Nails (USA), Razorlight (UK), Sinéad O'Connor (IRL), Faithless (UK), Tool (USA), Eagles Of Death Metal (USA), The Killers (USA), Quimby (H), Alpha Blondy (CIV), Tankcsapda (H), Kispál és a Borz (H) and Ennio Marchetto (IT)
however, there are a HUGE amount of other stages, everything from death metal to Jazz to Folk to Dance
In addition to music, the festival offers a plethora of other activities including cinema, dance, theatre, tattooing, Internet access, volleyball, tennis, football, bungee jumping and a life-sized foosball (which was awesome btw)
Also the city's gorgeous
There's fun and games
And the beers dirt cheap (90p a pint!) and the cocktails come in buckets
So yeah, a week long festival, for 120 Euros (90squid-ish with about 90 for flights). So a whole week of fun and games, for less than a glasto ticket.
No contest
Pictures http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...a&id=861960242
&
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...1&id=515312458
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Nice deal.
I want to go now
When is it?Posted 18-03-2008 at 03:51 PM by ZeroHour
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I haven't been to a festival since Download 2006.... went to watch metallica... waiting all day in the blistering sun, watching poo bands... constantly applying suncream and dust to my skin...
then metallica came on late... played only a few songs. I was pissed off... (glad i've seen them before!)
Trudged back to my car as they came back on with sad but true and drove home in great discomfort for 3 hours because i had sunburn on tiny bits of places where i had failed to put cream...
To get me to go to a festival again I will have to go with a lot of people and there would have to be a lot of good bands on!! (I'd submit a pic, but they are at home!)Posted 18-03-2008 at 03:51 PM by Joanne 
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oopps, didn't put that.
August the 12th - 18th
http://www.sziget.hu/festival_english
I propose an edugeek mass exodus!Posted 18-03-2008 at 03:55 PM by Domino -
I thought you were gonna say you were gonna try Eurocamp!!! lmao
Posted 20-03-2008 at 12:47 AM by mark - You're not hard - you said 'chops'Posted 20-03-2008 at 12:58 AM by mark
- Is it legal for people who live in Kent to have so many tattoos?
I shall have to ring the Daily Mail Curtain Twitcher hotlinePosted 24-03-2008 at 05:40 PM by ITWombat - thats why they only come out when I'm abroad.
...mind you - the looks from some of the old dears when they find out I work with their granddaughters is pricelessPosted 25-03-2008 at 11:10 AM by Domino
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