Sziget 2026

[ReljaGajić]

Primavera Sound 2026 just dropped. I hope we can get some of the names for Sziget, I'd love to see Gorillaz, Mac DeMarco,...

https://youtu.be/SEuYOmEZpW8?feature=shared

[thetime]

15 minutes ago, ReljaGajić said:

Primavera Sound 2026 just dropped. I hope we can get some of the names for Sziget, I'd love to see Gorillaz, Mac DeMarco,...

https://youtu.be/SEuYOmEZpW8?feature=shared

 

Awesome headliners with The Cure, XX, Gorillaz and Massive Attack. 

[CCester]

ding-dong @Sziget2025_Leaks, today marks the 6th months since you last showed up. It’s time to come back. 

[Benji1]

The primervera lineup is great.  I’d love gorillaz, viagra boys, yard act, xx, etc.  some quality acts.  Some interesting stuff from top to bottom.  Come on Sziget,  knock it out of the park.  We don’t need the biggest acts we need quality interesting acts.   

[billybigballs]

1 hour ago, Benji1 said:

The primervera lineup is great.  I’d love gorillaz, viagra boys, yard act, xx, etc.  some quality acts.  Some interesting stuff from top to bottom.  Come on Sziget,  knock it out of the park.  We don’t need the biggest acts we need quality interesting acts.   

Would like to see Role Model make a return. PinkPanthress would be good too.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if one of the headliners was Gorillaz, maybe with The xx taking the slot that Justice had this year (they're surely not big enough to headline a festival the size of Sziget?) 

[thetime]

39 minutes ago, billybigballs said:

The xx taking the slot that Justice had this year (they're surely not big enough to headline a festival the size of Sziget?) 

 

XX Will headline major festivals this year. Only way they play Sziget (doubt it) is headline. One of my fave bands, they are awesome. 

 

Wild guess they headline Roskilde, all points east, Way out West and Oya. 

 

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, thetime said:

 

XX Will headline major festivals this year. Only way they play Sziget (doubt it) is headline. One of my fave bands, they are awesome. 

 

Wild guess they headline Roskilde, all points east, Way out West and Oya. 

 

I think The XX headline the smaller end of major festivals, not the larger.

[thetime]

29 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I think The XX headline the smaller end of major festivals, not the larger.

 

Which are the larger festivals?

[northernangel]

4 hours ago, thetime said:

 

Which are the larger festivals?

Well some of what you mentioned attract 20 to 35k each day resulting in a combined 80-90k over 4 days. The large one's will have well over 35k a day. Take the likes of your Pulps, they didn't get headline sets at many of the biggest around, with TRNSMT being one of fhe bigger one's though the only big festival is Scotland helps. Northside being 40-50k a day one of the bigger one's. Take Bilbao too, 120k overall but 35k a day which is a festival with a mix of smaller and bigger headliners. 

[sandorbeni]

It doesn't get much bigger than Primavera tho

[mathuska]

Recent interview with Kadar Tamas, CEO of sziget cultural management talking about Kneecap scandal this year (the band was banned by the goverment), booking process (arena concerts vs festival shows), ideas for further improvement of the festival,  future visions, shifting from rock to pop/edm phenomenom, not clearly but a bit forshadowing a shorter fest (5days),the interviewer asking about the possibility of Linkin park and Prodigy, latter is very likely according his reaction, he claims they can afford linkin park, but successful booking depends lot of other circumstances..

[mathuska]

Also he states that recurring booking is somewhat easier

[northernangel]

On 26/09/2025 at 07:51, sandorbeni said:

It doesn't get much bigger than Primavera tho

No, its the others mentioned though that don't always get the big one's that would headline anywhere and this year they have 1 that would be the case. By the time the festival happened obviously Sabrina is likely the one in that category but at the time of booking and by the festival she was still the outright headliner on the lineup.

[So Sad Simon]

5 hours ago, mathuska said:

Also he states that recurring booking is somewhat easier

What does this mean?

[So Sad Simon]

5 hours ago, mathuska said:

Recent interview with Kadar Tamas, CEO of sziget cultural management talking about Kneecap scandal this year (the band was banned by the goverment), booking process (arena concerts vs festival shows), ideas for further improvement of the festival,  future visions, shifting from rock to pop/edm phenomenom, not clearly but a bit forshadowing a shorter fest (5days),the interviewer asking about the possibility of Linkin park and Prodigy, latter is very likely according his reaction, he claims they can afford linkin park, but successful booking depends lot of other circumstances..

Does he state that the festival is leaving rock behind?

[mathuska]

51 minutes ago, So Sad Simon said:

Does he state that the festival is leaving rock behind?

Nope, Kadar Tamas acknowledged that sziget had less rock acts in the last couple of edition, and it might look like a trend. It is not exactly on purpuse but rather because their availibily and profitability for the feszival. He said it has became harder and harder to find good rock bands that attracts bigger hungarian audience and/or they are too expensive

[Matt86]

6 minutes ago, mathuska said:

Nope, Kadar Tamas acknowledged that sziget had less rock acts in the last couple of edition, and it might look like a trend. It is not exactly on purpuse but rather because their availibily and profitability for the feszival. He said it has became harder and harder to find good rock bands that attracts bigger hungarian audience and/or they are too expensive

 

as we always said, it is indeed cheaper to book a DJ / electro act.. 

 

And given the various costs that have increased, many festivals are switching to cheaper bookings.

But it's certainly not because "it's hard to find good rock bands that attract audiences in Hungary", that's a disguised lie.

[mathuska]

5 hours ago, Matt86 said:

 

as we always said, it is indeed cheaper to book a DJ / electro act.. 

 

And given the various costs that have increased, many festivals are switching to cheaper bookings.

But it's certainly not because "it's hard to find good rock bands that attract audiences in Hungary", that's a disguised lie.

I just translated what he said, i know sziget used to be a rock focused festival.. but bigger bands rather do a stadium tours than festivals, and festival budget cant compete with stadium prices, he said its difficult to get them even when they are actually doing tours nearby and there is always a high competition with other events, also he said its somewhat easier to get recurring artist f.e Dua Lipa, Shawn Mendes like they had in the past especially if they had a good experience before..

Edited September 27, 2025 by mathuska

[mathuska]

6 hours ago, Matt86 said:

 

as we always said, it is indeed cheaper to book a DJ / electro act.. 

 

And given the various costs that have increased, many festivals are switching to cheaper bookings.

But it's certainly not because "it's hard to find good rock bands that attract audiences in Hungary", that's a disguised lie.

Actually you might be right, the interviewer asked the same question, there are quite a lot  successful rockfest in europe, like hellfest, roskilde, werchter, nova rock… but according to Kadar, the hungarian audience are more resonate to big pop acts but organizers agree to keep sziget as a multigenre fest and also “all-art” fest (dance, acrobatics, circus, etc) in what sziget is unique

[Matt86]

48 minutes ago, mathuska said:

Actually you might be right, the interviewer asked the same question, there are quite a lot  successful rockfest in europe, like hellfest, roskilde, werchter, nova rock… but according to Kadar, the hungarian audience are more resonate to big pop acts but organizers agree to keep sziget as a multigenre fest and also “all-art” fest (dance, acrobatics, circus, etc) in what sziget is unique

To me, this 2014 line up was one of the best : like you said, every genre (at least a lot) was represented. 

 

I understand big bands became very expensive, but nowadays, there are so many very good "middle bands", and Sziget use to be very good at getting those ( many of them got way bigger a few years later)

The "booking work" was great.

[thetime]

50 minutes ago, Matt86 said:

To me, this 2014 line up was one of the best : like you said, every genre (at least a lot) was represented. 

 

I understand big bands became very expensive, but nowadays, there are so many very good "middle bands", and Sziget use to be very good at getting those ( many of them got way bigger a few years later)

The "booking work" was great.

 

Macklemore still getting in on the act. 😂

 

Looking at the breakdown of days, people would have moaned about that lineup. Especially the headliners. 

 

Blink

Deadmau

Skrillex

Macklemore 

Korn

Prodigy 

Calvin harris

Edited September 27, 2025 by thetime

[thetime]

6 minutes ago, thetime said:

 

Macklemore still getting in on the act. 😂

 

Blink

Deadmau

Skrillex

Macklemore 

Korn

Prodigy 

Calvin harris

 

Looking at the era only Calvin Harris and Blink were major festival headliner. 

[Matt86]

2 hours ago, thetime said:

 

Looking at the era only Calvin Harris and Blink were major festival headliner. 

but the undercard though... 😍🤩😍

[thetime]

3 hours ago, Matt86 said:

but the undercard though... 😍🤩😍

 

Well yeah.

[kristofm]

On 27/09/2025 at 13:37, So Sad Simon said:

What does this mean?

He says something that they said before, if you give opportunities to up and coming artists, that pays off later on, when they get bigger. An example is Dua Lipa: Sziget gave her the first ever opportunity to headline a major festival, and that's part of the reason she decided to come back when she was actually big. If artists like playing at the festival, they'll come back.