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Interview with Sziget's booking manager from early-July: https://welovebudapest.com/cikk/2024/07/09/ejszakai-elet-csiszar-virag-interju-nemzetkozi-booking-menedzser-sziget-fesztival-2024-line-up-program-fellepok/ already working on the 2025 edition booking headliners early is a key, so they know if they’ll have budget on other stuff the aim’s never been to have 6 equally strong headliners, but to have a diverse line up there are no 6 superstars touring in august every year, so the aim is to find hot names in various subcultures, and get those names surrounded by relevant artists in the same subculture. market’s pretty unstable right now, some artists try to get a lot higher deposit payments than before to avoid risks new owners so far brought no major changes in how the festival operates sometimes it helps if you gather with 3-4 other festivals, and hand in an offer together for an artist, so you can convince the ones who didn’t want a tour in the first place in that region in early August, Lorde was an example for that. covid made everyone rethink how festivals work, young people (under 21) have totally different needs and ways of going out than the previous generations when they’re booking an artist they check the wishmachine, but also what numbers artists produced on their tours during the year, that’s a lot more important than streaming numbers.

Wondering what the turnout will be, we're struggling with selling a Hungarian student week long ticket for 128 eur. U21 tickets are 115-120 eur on ticketswap. Asked my gf if she wanted this one for free. She said she's not interested in anyone in this current line up so she wouldn't come even for free.

Balaton Sound food and drink prices did not get any higher since last year, so that means Sziget prices are expected to stay the same as well. Food got a bit cheaper. These are the 2023 prices as a reminder, 2024 is going to be very similar:

You can bring food onto site every day for yourself. There's plenty of options outside the festival, I think there's a small food court at Auchan, or inside Auchan they usually have a kitchen at the time of Sziget (I've tried it before, it's not five stars but never seemed to be a risk for my health), or there's Smokey Monkies near Auchan, my personal favorite, they've got a food truck at Sziget but outside the festival it's half the price, so it's probably worth it to get food outside for a family of 5. And of course there's Lidl and Aldi that are cheap, or there's a KFC nearby, etc.

I was jogging by the main stage area about 2-3 weeks ago, and the grass was pretty huge. But we're getting hit by some serious heatwaves these days, so this is going to be the real test.

I don't think she would've announced that this way.

International performers - paid in GBP, EUR, USD - come with international prices. It's possible to go to festivals in Hungary where beer is only 1200 HUF and we can all enjoy Quimby and Belga for the 1000th time.

Day tickets are overpriced, but I'm not too surprised about indie bands clashing with DJs.

No collisions at all for me! Amazing news! And the 11th of August is going to be great: Aug 11: 17:00 - 18:00 Pip Blom 17:30 - 18:30 Becky Hill (18:45 - 20:00 Editors) (20:10 - 21:10 Naska) 20:45 - 22:00 Fontaines DC (21:15 - 22:45 Sam Smith) 22:45 - 00:00 Crystal Fighters 00:40 - 01:40 - Dead Poet Society 02:10 - 03:00 Ramkot

A small British band that I like - called CHERYM - just announced themselves for Sziget

https://clashfinder.com/s/sziget24/?user=14eh9o.mr& I know this is fanmade (right?), but I'm just wondering... they surely won't put Dead Poet Society and Fontaines DC in one slot, right? It would make a lot more sense to let Editors play at 18:45-20:00, 20:30-21:45 Fontaines DC, and put Crystal Fighters after Sam Smith, at the same time as DPS. So indie-rock fans could see Editors+Fontaines DC+DPS, while Becky+Janelle+Sam Smith fans can all see Crystal Fighters if they want.

The "main" part is complete, we're only waiting for the very very very small, rather unknown ones, circus, etc. I think the timetable comes out around late-June, that's when we'll probably see everything and everyone.

isn't music box = light stage?

I think we're missing 3 names from there and my guess is they will be Hungarians (no Hungarians have been announced to Revolut yet), and to go even further with the guessing name I'm expecting Krúbi to be one of them.

Now it's 24