You know this feeling when you wake up and you know it is the last morning in a place you do not want to leave? That was my wake up to the last day of Sziget festival. Apart from having a hard time packing as everything was wet and very muddy, we managed to move […]
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Sziget Festival 2015 – Day 3 Summary: Colour party with Kasabian
Day 3 of Sziget was colorful and dusty. Firstly, we again missed the 4 pm main stage concert of Awolnation. It took us long to get home, eat, wash, write blog, edit pics and return back with the gigantic crowd. I saw in the news that there have been 90,000 people on the island on […]
Sziget Festival Summary – Day 2 – Endless party at Sziget
Day 2 was supposed to bring shows of Ellie Goulding, Ella Eyre, Foals, Interpol and many others. The day started for us with a nice sleep in our own bed and a long shower after that. Jealous? Be! We got to the festival area just in time for the concert of Akkezdet phiai on the […]
Sziget Festival Summary: Day 1 – phenomenal Cirk la Putyka
Finally Day 1 started! All the closed parts of the festival opened their gates, more and more people came and put up their tents and the sun was shining like crazy. The day was dusty, I am thinking that if there would be no rain or watering of the paths and stage areas, it will […]
Sziget Festival – Day 0 Florence + the infected machines
Sziget festival has crossed the baseline and the preparatory stage is over. The festival area seems to be ready, although you could still see some finishing works yesterday. The Szitizens are more than ready, judging from how the people partied the last two nights. The weather forecast does not indicate even any drop of rain […]
Sziget Festival – Day -1, Robbie Williams and alpaca
Sziget finally started! Well, not quite yet as yesterday was just Day -1. Many festival venues are still closed and being finalized in the meantime. But the music program already kicked off with the best (and most expensive) that the Festival Crew managed to bring so far – Robbie Williams. But first things first. […]
What to not miss out at Sziget
What to not miss out at Sziget and other special things that are good to know. Last post before the festival, come back for more during Sziget! Thematic parties Every day before the big names start their shows on the main stage, Sziget offers thematic parties. In 2014 that was: balloon party, flag party, beach […]
Building Sziget festival – 7 days to go!
Dear Szitizens and other summer festival lovers, the good news is that there is only 1 week to go until the Sziget festival kicks off! And as I already visited the festival area 2 weeks before the actual start and there was not much to see yet – I decided to give it another try […]
2 weeks before Sziget festival – visit to the Island of Freedom
Sziget Music Festival will kick off in 11 days and as I am utterly excited about the week full of music, art and nice people from literally all around the world, I decided to make a tour of the island to see how are the preparations going. As this question was endlessly popping up in […]
Everything you need to know about Sziget
Since 1993, every August, Budapest holds the Sziget Festival, which attracts over 400 thousand people during the week of the event. What it feels like to be at Sziget? What makes it unique and unforgettable? This mini-series about the cult Sziget experience should reveal you answers and aims at giving you valuable insight to make […]