Yelo, the Parmiggiana
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9 minutes ago, SFTAR said:
I sent a message to Sziget and was told it's by far not the full Lineup yet: "There will be many more artists announced."
Of course it is not, we have many gaps to fill.
Making a quick count, more or less:
- 2 Headliners
- Up to 2 Sub-Headliners
- Around 5-6 more Main Stage spots
- Around 6-8 more A38 evening spots
- Around 8-10 more A38 late night spots
- Half of the Colosseum and Party Arena
We are far from done, but taking a closer look, it is easy to understand that they gave a huge shape to the lineup this year, like it or not. I expect no more than 5-6 reasonable big names to come and the rest will be undercards and (hopefully) quality small names
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27 minutes ago, bunnyv said:
Is Denzel Curry gonna be on mainstage or A38? 🤔
Main Stage I guess, third down
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My Chemical RomanceS + Rhe Strokes
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4 minutes ago, Damon said:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Tame Impala and I'm sold for life
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12 minutes ago, Tinsel19 said:
Didn't the leaker say major Lazer would be the closing festival? And didn't they also say that eminem day tickets will be more expensive? Looks like things have changed..
Things change, no one is reliable for such an info, always take it with grain of salt.
6 minutes ago, R Shah said:Hi guys! My interrailing trip passes through Budapest on 10th August which is convenient as I LOVE The Strokes so will be grabbing a day ticket. First timer here - couple of questions!
Day tickets Tier 1 (€69) are onsale Tuesday 11am, when does the first tier usually sell out?
They do not sell out usually
6 minutes ago, R Shah said:What time do headliners usually come on and off? (considering Strokes would play a 90 minute set) as we'd be hoping to do some sightseeing that day as well!
For an act like The Strokes, how would the crowd differ from a UK show? Easy to mosh to the front or should we go down early for a spot?
Is Khalid likely to to headline a 2nd stage or sub the Strokes?
The Strokes will play 21.30-23.00. Can't talk about the crowd compared to the UK, but I can say it is fairly easy to get to the front (very difficult to get the barricade spot tho).
Khalid will play before, 19.30/45-21.00. Most likely Keane-Khalid-The Strokes.
Visiting downtown is easy but at the same time I would not suggest it, as the weather is terribly hot usually and your energy will be drained in a blink of an eye. Up to you, anyway.
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So basically:
5 august: average
6 august: over-stacked for who loves indie/trip hop and with no variety for who doesn't love indie/trip hop
7 august: eskereboyz on the main stage and quality hipster stuff on the A38
8 august: literally throw the dices and put the names how you like
9 august: the empire of flat live music (and Kaytranada and Dixon)
10 august: meme schedule with Khalid opening for The Strokes
11 august: sweet summer children on the main stage and metalheads breaking noses on the A38
Only situation it makes sense is that Eminem plays the 9th august and Shawn Mendes the 11th, as it is clear that the A38 is built to give an alternative to whom will rage for the pop announcement.
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15 minutes ago, lukatej said:
I asked Sziget and they replied that......
There is going to be.....
Mark Ronson DJ Set.... 😞
So probably late night A38
Bleah
I can see him opening for an headliner on the Main Stage anyway: he actually works well on the daylight and... embarassing, yeah
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44 minutes ago, FestivalJamie said:
It definitely has to be this week. I think it's extremely unlikely they would increase the prices of the 3 day and 5 day passes if we don't know which headliners are playing on which day.
Add Two door cinema club to that list as well.
Maybe Bombay bicycle club and London Grammar are possible names too?
Indeed, 2DCC
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49 minutes ago, activean said:
White Lies posted yesterday " festival announcements this week stay tuned ", first festival announced is in Romania in the middle of August, this could be potential for Sziget ..
This would add to the list of names we are lacking:
Eminem - Shawn Mendes - Empire of the Sun - The Neighbourhood - Metronomy - White Lies
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I finally had the time to go through the whole lineup. Gee those were a lot of names!
Anyway, my list in no particular order:
UNMISSABLE: Foals; Jon Hopkins; Sevdaliza; Caribou
MUST WATCH: Jamie Jones B2B Joseph Capriati; Of Monsters and Men; Daughter; Ezra Collective; FKA Twigs; Kolsch; Glass Animals; Parquet Courts; Kaytranada; I Hate Models; The Strokes; Viagra Boys; Tourist; METZ; Little Simz; Dixon; Giant Rooks; Bob Moses; Volac.
Definetely a well-rounded lineup so far this year, I will probably go for the whole week if the day split is sensed!
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Quoting Ken from Mad Cool's forum:
1 hour ago, Ken19 said:He was never an option. Was a long time in the market for festivals in august, but they changed the course of direction.
Far more logical to do first an arena tour and on a later time festivals.I doubt that somebody would be crazy enough to replace The Weeknd with Eminem. You can do that with Shawn Mendes or Dua Lipa, but Eminem is out of question
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25 minutes ago, #1SzigetFan said:
If they got Eminem, he might have delayed the announcement again... I start to think that Sziget, Frequency & other fests really had RHCP, but they pulled out after the Frusciante comeback announcement and afterwards they booked Eminem who keeps postponing the tour announcement. Hopefully he didn't pull out too.
Please let this be Shawn Mendes. Please let this be Shawn Mendes. Please let this be Shawn Mendes. Please let this be Shawn Mendes. Please let this be Shawn Mendes.
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6 minutes ago, bunnyv said:
What do you guys think,what are the chances of Sam Fender appearing in the next announcements?
Been excluded by leaks, so far.
26 minutes ago, Music_Hoop said:Don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to this but on the desktop version of Spotify you can see 'friend activity'. I follow Sziget and therefore can see what they're listening to if I'm on at the same time, or I can see what the last thing they listened to was under the Sziget account.
A week before the announcement I saw they were listening to Bakermat and he was announced. I noticed today that 2 days ago the last song they listened to was 'Limerence' by Yves Tumor. Could be something of nothing but I'd say there's a chance Yves Tumor could be announced in the next batch of announcements
Good shout, I guess!
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15 minutes ago, sandorbeni said:
Is there a chance for any of these artists: Girl in red, Beabadoobee, Oh wonder, Wolf Alice, Rex orange county, The japanese house?
I sure hope so, plus Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Would send me over the roof, definetely
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50 minutes ago, JBVelas said:
You are assuming they do not have any headliner booked at this stage for Friday, because if they would, they would have announced it already,.
If that's true, The Strokes has the same possibilities of being booked as any other band/artist touring during those dates. And being honest, The Strokes are not a deal breaker for me, love the lineup already, but let the people dream about their options anyway
If they are on desperate mode, they will pay The Strokes whatever it needs to be paid. Unless there are couple of acts we do not know yet they are touring. Where the hell are Black Keys? Were they not suppossed to come to Europe this year? Anyway, we will need someone bigger than them for Friday I guess.
BTW, will not take so much importance to the sales. There was a limited number of 4-day ticket on sale so they could squeeze more euros selling more 3-day ticket and individual tickets. Friday and Saturday are always the big nights in the festival and the ones bringing more 1-day ticket sales so pretty sure they want to pull out something good for Friday.
Ken made it clear: for some bands it is not only a matter of money - or better, money is just the starting point, a festival has also to provide a worthwhile service in the process. Massive Attack's situation showed that Mad Cool can be awful at that and this can be a fatality of this element. I prefer to have a weak headliner rather than standing in front of an empty stage waiting for somebody to never show up, so I can live with that. Plus The Strokes are not a deal breaker for me either, and I'm going to Sziget anyway, just to make it clear.
Another element I'd like to point out: The Strokes is a fairly capricious band to book, that is common knowledge, so it is more likely that, if Mad Cool is actually that desperate (which I guess is not), they wil go for something cheesier or easier to charm with money, rather than a band that has all the leverage tools on its side to lead a negotiation and that already costs a fortune.
About The Black Keys, they won't tour Europe this summer.
57 minutes ago, The Martini Police said:Hardly the MCR of February. Some people have obviously just not followed the whole thread and not seen that it's now very unlikely that they're playing. I would recommend to others waiting for the Strokes to just give up though, it's a long-shot now.
I know we are not talking about the same exact situation, but I feel some collective-neurosis-vibe over here and somebody has to tell things the way they are more likely to be, from time to time. I'm not enjoying the title of an insider or a leaker, but as I'm not so into The Strokes, I have to admit there are some heavy biases going on in this thread. Might be only me, though, in this case I can only offer my apologies.
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2 minutes ago, lukecork said:
Does anyone know if Primavera paid for a spain exclusive for The Strokes?
If all the consideration of "The Strokes dropping out when negotiation was advanced" were true, the answer is no, simply because at the time Primavera had no Spanish exclusive over them. If those considerations are true, Primavera later turned to be an exclusive show (at least for the festival circuit, since, once we exclude MC, BBK is the only other one able to get them, and they had them the last year).
In other words, this is not a point. The Strokes are becoming the My Chemical Romance of February in this forum, and this is annoying in the same exact way: it is really reasonable to believe that they are gone-GONE, as they are announcing different legs of their tour right now. Accept it, deal with it, go over it, buy a ticket for their show elsewhere.
I'm sorry to be the dickhead, but this thread is turning more and more into a conspiration theory, where people forces themselves to see signs and stuff: if MC had them they would already announce them, now they lost the sensation leverage anyway, as they have been announced basically everywhere in the whole summer duration or so, so people bought their tickets already and MC wouldn''t make much more money on announcing them (even if they had them).
If selling are going good, they will opt for something cheap, if not they will probably turn to something cheesy - as time is passing day by day and acts have already scheduled their tour for the best part. Both the cases, the probability of having some "state-of-the-art" announcement are getting thinner day by day: think about it, how many times you saw a festival announcing your favorite show as last resort? In my case it happend twice maybe in over 7 years and that was just a matter sheer luck.
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44 minutes ago, CCester said:
Yep, right between David Guetta's and Parov Stelar's houses.
And Bastille's weak-ass singer, who bought it from Brian Molko, I believe
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20 minutes ago, eyebrain said:
I remember massive moshpits during Limp Bizkit in 2015. I think I have never seen crazier crowd at Sziget than that evening had, absolutely mental that was. I think Fred at one point even asked people to stay safe and take care of each other. Good times - would join those pits again and that's the only reason I'd love to have Bizkit back again. Might not be a progressive booking but great fun. But sadly most of headliners this year are not really progressive booking.
Cough cough Woodstock 99 cough
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1 hour ago, billybigballs said:
Wow. Limp Bizkit?!? No offence to your taste guys but that would be a horrific booking in my eyes.
Nu-metal was in vogue for a few weeks in 2000 but twenty years on I thought most people viewed it as a bit of a joke?
As I say, no offence to your tastes but, in my eyes, booking them wouldn't show Sziget in a particularly progressive light.
Guilty pleasures can't be shamed. Teenage-angst/rage dream can't be avoided.
Plus, from that wave of music, I'd take Korn anyday over most of the so-called rock bands touring right now (yeah, KoL included). Bizkit, as well: although I hate them for the personality, 3 out of 6 LPs of them are huge (they aged fairly poorly, tho) and they have some killer tracks that I'd love to mosh to, even if you can see Fred Durst's self-hate from the last row of the crowd
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1 hour ago, FestivalJamie said:
It was Macklemore and the national co-headlining the Saturday. I have the schedule on my wall at home. Johnny Marr played the Tuesday with TOP and foo fighters.
I get your point that last year we had 5 outright headliners and 4 co-headliners so to speak, and in 2018 they had 6 outright headliners and 2 co-headliners, but back in 2017 they simply only had 7 headliners. We know they have struggled to book acts this year so wouldn't be surprised if we purely only have 7 headliners and no co-headlines this year, otherwise maybe someone like Miley Cyrus would be likely, but we haven't heard anything from the leakers so Im doubting anything extra than the core 7 headliners at this point (Eminem & Shawn Mendes the last 2).
I think you are right though if there are any days which are going to have people co-headlining it would definitely be the Major Lazer day as Dua, Calvin, Kings of Leon, Eminem, Shawn & The strokes are all big enough to outright headline on their own.
Honestly ASAP Rocky and, to some extents, Foals, could play as co-headliner right now. I mean, we are really ready to state that The 1975 is a bigger band than those two?
Of course, as Foals are matched with KoL we won't call it a co-headlining structure, but still those are relevant names. I honestly wouldn't ask for more, given what's around in that time
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1 hour ago, G4 DVS said:
The way they have listed the acts suggests they have 5 of the 7 headliners.
In the next group below the headliners they list 9 acts. As there are 14 acts either sub heading the main stage or headlining A38, does this mean we have 5 biggish acts yet to be announced? Who do we think?
I honestly don't believe Diplo will play in A38. yeah it is big and all, but he will surely follow Major Lazer and that seems like an overkill to put electronic headlining MS, electronic headlining A38, Colosseum, PA and A38 going for their usual electronic schedule. Dunno.
1 hour ago, swelsbyuk said:I'd guess that the first five are subs and the next four are A38 headliners - there seems quite a clear split of 5/4 or, just possibly, 6/3.
I believe Mark Ronson will be sub-headliner (ridicolous? ridicolous.)
25 minutes ago, thetime said:Lewis Capaldi? No idea of his standing in Hungary though.
He subs, leaks confirmed it. So far we have ASAP Rocky, Foals, Stormzy, Ronson, Capaldi and Khalid. In that case it would make 6, 7 with 2DCC and we are up for the main 2 lines of the cartel, along with Eminem and Mendes boy
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10 minutes ago, BasD said:
I’ve got a question for the more experienced sziget-goers. I’m a first timer and I want to arrive at the camping without a moving in ticket (team cheap), if I’ll be there first thing in the morning when the camping opens, will I have a good chance of finding a place in the shadow? I don’t have a camping upgrade (team cheap again).
Yeah, safe. You don't need the camping upgrade to have a perfect spot to chill. They changed the distribution on the site this year, so it is hard to make a prediction on the best spot, but I'll give you my two cents, since I've been to Sziget 6 times already.
I honestly prefer the spot between Party arena and Main stage - sure I assume you gonna party the night off, so you will just collapse by dawn and wake up around 11 due to the Main Stage sound check and chill after lunch. It might seem a little bit harsh but:
1) you really will collapse at 6 and you won't care about the bass or the noise anywhere because you are too tired;
2) I have fond memories of 2018 when I woke up to Damon Albarn soundchecking for Gorillaz;
3) There is not really much to do for what concerns music, except for the Lightstage, until 4 PM, so you can really invest that time in recovering and re-hydrate anyway, or chilling out somewhere cool
If you want a more chill-out experience, it might be wise to sleep on the southern end of the island (in previous years it was dedicated to Alternativa Camping and Apero Camping, but now I believe it will be free camping): not much shade, so you will have to scout a bit, but it is away from anything so it can be a good call. Downside: there is literally nothing down there, and by nothing I mean nothing; you are miles from the beach - where any good after usually ends, so by 6 am you will have to walk ages to go back to your tent.
Another under appreciated site where to camp can be the west side of the island, as close to the coast as they will let you: nobody goes there so you won't have any problem (not that I ever had problems anywhere at Sziget), should be a little bit chilled but close to the area. That is an halfway solution between the two proposed.
Having a camping upgrade is a nice to have: it won't improve your experience by tons and lately its price increased in an unreasonable way, so in 2018 I stopped going to Alternativa and, guess what, experience-wise it was even better: I got to know more foreigners (as Alternativa is packed with Italian/Dutch goers), had to live the island even more, blabla.
Of course Alternativa means more comfort, and this year also a reasonable spot on the island, but it is not really worth 100+ €, since they won't give you any real benefit, except for a less populated area and some more bathrooms
. The VIP Camping is a total ripoff, as the pool is the only thing worth it, unless you are a spoiled ass who needs a real bedroom in a camping festival.
17 minutes ago, king_oxymoron said:Anyone know if they are doing the CityPass this year? Can see no mention so far!
Should be there, it will likely be announced later. Budapest relies a lot on Sziget's goers, so it is hard to imagine they give up on the thing.
17 minutes ago, Tinsel19 said:One of the leakers said that the day splits will be announced in Feb. Not sure if they meant that they are going to leak them in Feb, or if Sziget will officially announce them.
It seems a bit odd that Sziget would announce day splits AND also announce Eminem before the next price hike in March.... Surely it makes more business sense to not announce day splits until the 5/7 day passes have had a chance to sell well on the back of the giant 80+ act announcement? If they announce someone like Eminem, then people are going to want to make sure they don't miss it, and buy a week pass theoretically.
I think they will release Eminem and Shawn Mendes (don't know if in distinct announcements or if in a single) and the day split before the end of the month, and then start the selling of the day tickets before march.
Day tickets and 3-days are a consistent slice of their revenues so they won't be able to wait long as they did in the previous years when the options were 5-days or 7-days.
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10 minutes ago, FestivalJamie said:
Remember that chunky chips has also confirmed Eminem... and all of his leaks this year and last year have been 100% correct. We also haven’t had a rap headliner announced yet, so Eminem fits in perfectly for the bill.
It does make a lot of sense. I am actually too much looking forward to it, as I was for MCR to Mad Cool, so I just want to cool it down a little, because you never know and I don't think I would survive the trauma if they call some Post Malone in his place for any reason
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10 hours ago, Tosun said:
Hey, got a quick question. Do people actually use hammocks at Sziget? Our mate is getting to the festival a bit later than us so might not have space for a tent. Cheers.
I don't know if I'd sugget to sleep in an hammock at Sziget. The night can be pretty rough and statistically, I cannot remember an edition in the last 7 years in which it hasn't rained at least once.
40 minutes ago, swelsbyuk said:Well, that answers that one!
One trick pony festival, the like of R+L. Actually, I believe that RATM+Eminem as a combo might be out of the budget of 99% of the major festivals
38 minutes ago, swelsbyuk said:Any chance we might get Miley at Sziget in second announcement? Especially with Mark Ronson being there?
There's quite a few others playing Lolla Berlin that are at Sziget - Denzel Curry, Alice Merton, Mabel, R3hab etc.
Miley would be great fun and she's got some impressive vocals too.
Agree with you, and I actually would like it to happen, but I belive that she is headliner's material and, although I'd trade her anyday with Shawn Mendes, I find it hard to believe that Sziget has the budget to put her on a sub-headliner spot (especially after those headliner announced - don't forget that Calvin Harris is probably the most expensive EDM dj, as he charges a shitload to play for huge crowds).
About Eminem, since Sziget Leaks has been reliable at 95% of the posts, I actually believe him. Surely, if something goes wrong, that would be a big shot in the foot for the festival, the like of The Strokes + MCR at Mad Cool.
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Sziget 2020
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The only announcement Sziget did not tease AFAIR is the christmas announcement of Bloc Party and Sum41. In 2016.
They will tease it