kristofm

There's a band who have 0 gigs or tours announced, and they are being looked at as an obvious candidate - am I missing something?

Nah it's just a quote I like. It's just that I look at Charli's schedule... i just feel that we've had hopes for artists who are in neighbouring countries during Sziget and they didn't come. Charli has some EU dates in May and June then plays in Brazil, and we've seen more likely gigs that just didn't happen. We even received a clue for Lana and she's not making it. I think it makes the most sense to let the previous clues for previous rounds go.

"Forget all those promises that only fools remember." Those couple or names are not going to happen I'm afraid.

Fontaines DC just dropped this, love it to bits

Leaks talked about Charli at a time when even Lana was possible, so I'm not quite sure about those names.

The fact that they're playing in the United States in August could be a good reason. Took a second to Google.

there are awful ones and there are great deals. crunchy and zing are always good stuff, i think i paid about 10-ish quid for a burger+fries+sauce combination in both places. during the day you can go and visit smokey monkies (1 stop away) with decent smoked meat (they are also present at the festival but of course with much more expensive offers), there's auchan for cheap lunch as well. Aldi inside the festival is a good choice for dinner if you don't care about the headliner that much (no huge queues at that time).

Most of my friends aren't coming because it's so expensive and they're between 25 and 30. They say they'd rather go on a holiday abroad. 180 eur is enough to fly over to Italy and get yourself an okay accommodation for 3 nights, the food and drinks aren't more expensive than at Sziget either. I can afford both, but I completely understand people who prefer a holiday in Italy with their friends instead of going to Sziget if it has a rubbish line up. edit: also, there are festivals in Hungary that cost about a 100 eur and you'll see every popular Hungarian artists there. So it's not really worth it to spend 2x as much and see names like Sam Smith or Halsey, I've never met anyone in my life who said "oh I love Halsey I'm excited to see her".

The fact that they play 1 day after Sziget in Budapest suggests that Sziget turned down the opportunity to try and book them. They were 100% available. And that's a bit sad.

Don't even... 😞

Aren't subs playing from 19:30? All of these were playing in the afternoon, 17:30. That's why I think Tom Odell will play from 17:30 as well, we'll have a sub at 19:30, and the headliner from 21:45.

How do we know that? We've got about 10 names announced for the first day, about 15 names for the rest of the days. Party Arena has 6-8 names a day, Main Stage has 4 names, A38/Revolut/whatever has like 6-8, then there's Europe Stage, Dropyard, etc. We'll might get a headliner, a sub, and a few A38 names for the first day then, and probably some other names for other days, won't we?

Parov Stelar ruled out, there's a gig on the 16th Aug in Budapest

So many dogs ❤️ It feels kind of unfair to take the island from them for at least a month or so.

It was in the press release that Skrillex will play on the main stage, then Fred plays on the main stage until 11pm, then the third one performs at the A38-whatever-it's-called-now tent when Fred's done. (And the fact that the other guy will be at the A38 (Revolut?) tent means we can't even go and see a decent band instead of DJs.)