Sziget 2025

[billybigballs]

4 hours ago, CS2110 said:

The image of the Revolut makes it look more like the old party arena

I never made it to the Party Arena. Was it significantly different to Revolut? Bigger? Easier to access?

 

I think I walked pat it a few times and, if memory serves me correctly, it just looked like a massive marquee at a village fete (i.e a bit naff and nowhere near as cool or impressive looking from the outside at the Revolut tent). Am I misremembering?

[bunnyv]

5 minutes ago, billybigballs said:

I never made it to the Party Arena. Was it significantly different to Revolut? Bigger? Easier to access?

 

I think I walked pat it a few times and, if memory serves me correctly, it just looked like a massive marquee at a village fete (i.e a bit naff and nowhere near as cool or impressive looking from the outside at the Revolut tent). Am I misremembering?

Exactly. It’s pretty lame,and I think it’s more suffocating than Revolut.

[CS2110]

23 minutes ago, billybigballs said:

I never made it to the Party Arena. Was it significantly different to Revolut? Bigger? Easier to access?

 

I think I walked pat it a few times and, if memory serves me correctly, it just looked like a massive marquee at a village fete (i.e a bit naff and nowhere near as cool or impressive looking from the outside at the Revolut tent). Am I misremembering?

I was thinking more like how it looked at this point. The graphic of the Revolut stage on the new map looks a lot more similar to this version of the party arena than how we’re used to the Revolut stage looking

[activean]

28 minutes ago, billybigballs said:

I never made it to the Party Arena. Was it significantly different to Revolut? Bigger? Easier to access?

 

I think I walked pat it a few times and, if memory serves me correctly, it just looked like a massive marquee at a village fete (i.e a bit naff and nowhere near as cool or impressive looking from the outside at the Revolut tent). Am I misremembering?

 

Less high and maybe even smaller, unless they extend it... 

 

[billybigballs]

54 minutes ago, activean said:

 

Less high and maybe even smaller, unless they extend it... 

 

Yeah, that really doesn't strike me as an upgrade! 

 

They obviously rent the tents in - pretty sure the Revolut had labels on saying it had come from an English provider. Maybe that was more expensive and using Party Arena (if that, indeed, is what it is) is a cost saving measure.

 

Gotta say, the current tent strikes me an a really impressive structure when you first come across it on day one of the festival. Any downgrade would impact that enormously.

[billybigballs]

Shiiiit! https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/tomorrowland-festival-stage-fire

 

Scroll down the page to see the vid.

 

[So Sad Simon]

13 minutes ago, billybigballs said:

Shiiiit! https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/tomorrowland-festival-stage-fire

 

Scroll down the page to see the vid.

 

😮 🥺

[billybigballs]

2 minutes ago, So Sad Simon said:

😮 🥺

Updated image....

[BobMahelp]

On 14/07/2025 at 09:56, billybigballs said:

Three weeks to go and this chat needs a boost. 

 

So:

 

1. What THREE acts are you most looking forward to? Charli XCX, Post Malone, Chappell Roan

 

2. What is the ONE act that others might have missed that you recommend? Caity Baser

 

3. What day gives you the most clashes? Day 1 

 

4. Which headliners will you be watching? All of them (although probably not Kid Cudi’s entire set)

 

5. What ONE tip would you give to someone who hasn't been to Sziget before? First time for me so I’ll sit this one out 

 

 

 

[thetime]

Vibe is real. 😍

 

[eivomracsy]

1 hour ago, thetime said:

Vibe is real. 😍

 

has there been a vip area in the revolut before? also sziget eye seems new?

 

@swelsbyuk thanks for asking the obvious on ig

Edited July 17, 2025 by eivomracsy

[sandorbeni]

9 minutes ago, eivomracsy said:

has there been a vip area in the revolut before? also sziget eye seems new?

 

@swelsbyuk thanks for asking the obvious on ig

The sziget eye has been around for many years now

[djym12]

18 hours ago, billybigballs said:

Yeah, that really doesn't strike me as an upgrade! 

Even though it’s marked that way on the map, no way it’s smaller than the last Revolut stage, not to mention the old Party Arena. Might just look similar, that’s all.

But I’m gonna miss the tent...

[ReljaGajić]

2 hours ago, thetime said:

Vibe is real. 😍

 

It's funny how they have "no music on a dead planet" stage/zone, and then have Shell as a sponsor 😶 the irony

[activean]

"The Revolut Stage has changed! Believe us, you won’t be disappointed with our new tent! 🫶" 

 

New as brand new or as different? 

[ReljaGajić]

27 minutes ago, activean said:

"The Revolut Stage has changed! Believe us, you won’t be disappointed with our new tent! 🫶" 

 

New as brand new or as different? 

Basically just a Party Arena tent from previous years I guess

[CS2110]

It’s an interesting decision. I wonder why they’ve chosen to change it so much

[billybigballs]

2 hours ago, CS2110 said:

It’s an interesting decision. I wonder why they’ve chosen to change it so much

 

[eivomracsy]

3 hours ago, CS2110 said:

It’s an interesting decision. I wonder why they’ve chosen to change it so much

due to the different shape it probably is easier to fit a stage for bigger production. with the old tent you maybe would need to place the stage further in the middle of the tent and thus lose space for the audience. also it seems a bit wider to me than the old one. havent been since 2019 though. anyway pure speculation, we will be wiser once we are there. 

could be cheaper too, but "used an old tent" implies they own the tents and then i don't see why it would be cheaper to replace a tent they own by one they own.

[thetime]

Its a tent guys, a tent. 

 

Lineup is decent this year, thats the main thing. 

[billybigballs]

12 hours ago, thetime said:

Its a tent guys, a tent. 

 

Lineup is decent this year, thats the main thing. 

Well, @thetime being this forum's voice of reason certainly wasn't on my 2025 bingo card......😉

[bunnyv]

FYI, more than 150 Hungarian musicians/artists have signed a petition demanding the cancellation of Kneecap at Sziget. Many people whose name I would never have expected to see on such a list.

[ReljaGajić]

11 minutes ago, bunnyv said:

FYI, more than 150 Hungarian musicians/artists have signed a petition demanding the cancellation of Kneecap at Sziget. Many people whose name I would never have expected to see on such a list.

Where can I sign for them to remove noga erez? 🤢

[drbonzo]

33 minutes ago, bunnyv said:

FYI, more than 150 Hungarian musicians/artists have signed a petition demanding the cancellation of Kneecap at Sziget. Many people whose name I would never have expected to see on such a list.

I guess most of them have no idea — they just saw the petition on Facebook and signed it, because signing anything that seems righteous is par for the course. What’s even worse, though, is that major news outlets are treating the allegations as facts, so the pressure on Sziget to cancel them will really start to mount.

[sandorbeni]

I don't know if the rising presure will make the sziget organizers bend, but so far they seemed to be adamant on having Kneecap perform. I know it's a different situation, but Nina Kraviz performed in 2022, which shows to me that they are against cultural boycott of any kinds.

 

Also Kneecap is probably the most radical and notorious, but there are a lot of other artists on the lineup who openly support Palestine.