Sziget 2023

[thetime]

5 hours ago, billybigballs said:

I'd be very surprised / disappointed if Blur weren't there. Massive missed opportunity.

I would say thinking out loud.

If contracts for headliners have not been signed by the time blur decided to come back, there is a very high chance of them headlining. Especially being in around sziget week, plus no Eastern European date announced as of yet. 

[Ferda]

Fingers crossed for Blur, I would buy a day ticket to see them. 

[Matt86]

Happy new year to everyone ! I hope the second wave in February will satisfy most of us 🙂

Speaking of, as much as I also would be happy with Blur, I have doubts.. Do Sziget would take a headliner that majority of the young people don't know...? If they were active these last years, that would be possible, but they werent.. so ask a 18-20 years old of they know them... 😕

I read that Radiohead are back for 2023, and I think the same : that would be great !, but I'm not sure that is the direction Sziget is taking, sadly...

The Strokes, Panic! at the disco, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, these are my "first thoughts"... After that, Nickelback, Gun's & Roses, RHCP, MCR and Pearl Jam.

I also don't forget that in 2024, this will be the 30th Anniversary of Sziget, they might keep big names for that.. ! I'm telling you lol, Martin Garrix and Macklemore will be there 😂

[thetime]

1 hour ago, Matt86 said:

 

Speaking of, as much as I also would be happy with Blur, I have doubts.. Do Sziget would take a headliner that majority of the young people don't know...? If they were active these last years, that would be possible, but they werent.. so ask a 18-20 years old of they know them... 😕

 

You could say the same about roskilde, primavera and way out west.

The thing is sziget isn't reading/leeds that the the main audience is 16-20. Sziget is very much like glastonbury with a much varied age group. 

[swelsbyuk]

4 hours ago, Matt86 said:

Happy new year to everyone ! I hope the second wave in February will satisfy most of us 🙂

Speaking of, as much as I also would be happy with Blur, I have doubts.. Do Sziget would take a headliner that majority of the young people don't know...? If they were active these last years, that would be possible, but they werent.. so ask a 18-20 years old of they know them... 😕

I read that Radiohead are back for 2023, and I think the same : that would be great !, but I'm not sure that is the direction Sziget is taking, sadly...

The Strokes, Panic! at the disco, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, these are my "first thoughts"... After that, Nickelback, Gun's & Roses, RHCP, MCR and Pearl Jam.

I also don't forget that in 2024, this will be the 30th Anniversary of Sziget, they might keep big names for that.. ! I'm telling you lol, Martin Garrix and Macklemore will be there 😂

In 2023 no festival would survive having both Imagine Dragons and Nickelback as headliners!

[BzhTraveler]

On 1/6/2023 at 9:25 PM, Newjem said:

Artists very often put the first day of the festival in their tour calendar so you'll have to wait for daily splits which will come with the announcement in February I guess. Foals are most likely sub-headlining on August 10th as they are playing in Slovakia a day later.

If we had to choose, I would like to see Foals under A38 (it'll be madness) and Sam Fender on the main stage

[gfa]

On 1/7/2023 at 9:17 AM, #1SzigetFan said:

I think The Strokes and Blur still have good chances to be this year at Sziget.

Not sure whats happening with the strokes - they got announced for Cala Mijas and everywhere else they are being held back. meant to be doing APE in London + more probably.

Maybe Cala Mijas accidentally announced them or something

[swelsbyuk]

1 hour ago, pompirus said:

If we had to choose, I would like to see Foals under A38 (it'll be madness) and Sam Fender on the main stage

I think the very fact that it would be madness is the reason they won't be in A38! Lol. Agree they'd be great in there but pretty sure they'll sub main stage. 

[activean]

2 minutes ago, swelsbyuk said:

I think the very fact that it would be madness is the reason they won't be in A38! Lol. Agree they'd be great in there but pretty sure they'll sub main stage. 

That reminded of how overcrowded Alan Walker in tent last year was. 

[Yelo, the Parmiggiana]

18 hours ago, pompirus said:

If we had to choose, I would like to see Foals under A38 (it'll be madness) and Sam Fender on the main stage

I'd rather say I'd watch them indoor, but the crowd they draw is by far superior then the one the average A38 headliner does

[swelsbyuk]

Foo Fighters are confirmed as headliners for Boston Calling in late May so they're back playing, and playing festivals.

Would be happy with them coming back, but would love to see a Yeah Yeahs Yeahs and Paramore double header like they did with 21 Pilots and Foos in 2019.

[thetime]

2 hours ago, swelsbyuk said:

Foo Fighters are confirmed as headliners for Boston Calling in late May so they're back playing, and playing festivals.

Would be happy with them coming back, but would love to see a Yeah Yeahs Yeahs and Paramore double header like they did with 21 Pilots and Foos in 2019.

That's pretty decent, wouldn't mind those 6 headliners. Plus the national, flaming lips.

 

[swelsbyuk]

Quick question, not related to anything in particular, just on the back of a conversation my family was having last night.

Many of you have attended the festival many more time than myself and just wondered if you have ever seen any of the acts out and about on site? Perhaps watching other acts?

Last year, my daughter and her friend got photos and autographs from Black Honey and Alfie Templeman after their sets but that was at the side of the stage, not on site. Just wondered if acts hung around or just jetted in and then out again.

Edited January 11, 2023 by swelsbyuk

[Yelo, the Parmiggiana]

1 minute ago, swelsbyuk said:

Quick question, not related to anything in particular, just on the back of a conversation my family was having last night.

Many of you have attended the festival many more time than myself and just wondered if you have ever seen any of the acts out and about on site? Perhaps watching other acts?

Last year, my daughter and her friend got photos and autographs from Black Honey and Alfie Templeman after their sets but that was at the side of the stage, not on site. Just wondered if acts hung around or just jetted in and then out again.

Not that I really pay attention to that, since when that happens I tend to leave those people alone (all in all, it is their free time...) and most of the time the musicians spend time in the private area, anyway I remember that in 2014 I met Caparezza (biggest italian performer of that edition) at the main stage after Skrillex (although he went to A38 for Miles Kane) and Skrillex himself some minutes later in the back of the Main Stage (he was high as a mountain).

At least in the years 2016-2018, an Italian could have a lot of face-to-face time with minor italian performers playing on the Lightstage.

Probably with the VIP pass nowadays you can get access to some backstages. Honestly I believe it feels like watching animals at the zoo to pay money to force somebody to chat with you for some minutes, but to each their own.

[ReljaGajić]

2 minutes ago, swelsbyuk said:

Quick question, not related to anything in particular, just on the back of a conversation my family was having last night.

Many of you have attended the festival many more time than myself and just wondered if you have ever seen any of the acts out and about on site? Perhaps watching other acts?

Last year, my daughter and her friend got photos and autographs from Black Honey and Alfie Templeman after their sets but that was at the side of the stage, not on site. Just wondered if acts hung around or just jetted in and then out again.

I got a picture with Sigrid, she came down after the concert (I was waving with a hat during the whole concert and basically calling her to come down) and I saw Steve Aoki and Sigrid again going to the "filming thing" that is across the main stage to watch Tame Impala concert. 

And I remember that I saw Tove Lo in 2019 after Martin Garrix show, she was also taking a picture with fans (but I noticed her too late to take a picture with her 🥲)

[Mondo-kun]

29 minutes ago, swelsbyuk said:

Quick question, not related to anything in particular, just on the back of a conversation my family was having last night.

Many of you have attended the festival many more time than myself and just wondered if you have ever seen any of the acts out and about on site? Perhaps watching other acts?

Last year, my daughter and her friend got photos and autographs from Black Honey and Alfie Templeman after their sets but that was at the side of the stage, not on site. Just wondered if acts hung around or just jetted in and then out again.

One of my friends took a photo with Palaye Royale guitar player at the bar near Dropyard Stage, another one saw Steve Aoki near the barriers after Tame Impala show.

[sandorbeni]

55 minutes ago, swelsbyuk said:

Quick question, not related to anything in particular, just on the back of a conversation my family was having last night.

Many of you have attended the festival many more time than myself and just wondered if you have ever seen any of the acts out and about on site? Perhaps watching other acts?

Last year, my daughter and her friend got photos and autographs from Black Honey and Alfie Templeman after their sets but that was at the side of the stage, not on site. Just wondered if acts hung around or just jetted in and then out again.

I've met with Oh Wonder in 2017, they've came out of the backstage area after their show to meet fans.

I also have friends that met with SIgrid last year so she was definitely walking around at the festival.

I know it's a different situation, but someone I know was invited to the backstage area by Florence, since she's been a huge fan of Florence for a long time.

 

[activean]

I haven't met no one, but you can see some artists in that sound engineer house next to the main stage, i remember Sigrid was watching Tame Impala concert as Relja said. 

Most artists just want to enjoy themself and don't want extra attention. 

 

Edit: She posted this photo from Sziget: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkTs5bUjDn0/

Edited January 11, 2023 by activean

[eyebrain]

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, but they didn't really wander around, they were watching the show from FOH tower.

[probably_john]

22 hours ago, swelsbyuk said:

 

really hoping declan mckenna goes sziget, would love to see him live again as he was amazing the first time i saw him but i didn't know as many songs by him that i do now

[Davidoff]

I spoke to the Nova twins to say that I had watched them for a bit when they were watching the headliners, I think it was the Artic Monkeys. 

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, but they didn't really wander around, they were watching the show from FOH tower snap seen that and Martin Compston   was watching Fontaines DC at the front but I never noticed him until someone else mentioned it 

[swelsbyuk]

1 hour ago, eyebrain said:

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, but they didn't really wander around, they were watching the show from FOH tower.

When was that? This year? I know Timothy Chalamet was there watching Rufus Du Sol this year.

[Davidoff]

7 minutes ago, swelsbyuk said:

When was that? This year? I know Timothy Chalamet was there watching Rufus Du Sol this year.

Yes

[eyebrain]

8 hours ago, swelsbyuk said:

When was that? This year? I know Timothy Chalamet was there watching Rufus Du Sol this year.

It was 2017 if i remember correctly.
Yeah I do remember someone talking about Timothy now that you’re mentioning it. Kutcher/Kunis case was something similar - they just saw a few acts and disappeared….

[ReljaGajić]

We are getting date splits tomorrow 🙂

Edited January 12, 2023 by ReljaGajić