Sziget 2026

[activean]

Counting down the days, what are your daily plans? 

 

I will be there for day 1 and 2, the first time after 2023. 

Have to say I'm quite unhappy with the running order, a lot of clashes with staff i would like to see. 

 

Day1: Probably won't be early enough for Bad Nerves, so I will start a day with Wolf Alice and might go to Zara Larsson, but would have to skip Lambrini Girls and Avrelize for that. I don't know yet, hard one to choose. 

But in that case i might skip Sombr for heavy riffs with Kim Dracula and later Underworld for desert.

Day2: Will try to catch Giant Rooks followed by Biffy Clyro. With change of their spot, theys clash with Natasha Bedingfield and Health. Another pain in the ass moment for me. Will choose Twenty One Pilots over Chet Faker and will check out Ashnikko and Tomora and maybe even Argy for the end. 

[Yelo, the Parmiggiana]

22 hours ago, billybigballs said:

Without reawakening the old Skrillex debate, that Saturday is the worst line-up of any festival day I have ever attended. Main stage especially. I can usually find some good in a line-up, even if it's not to my taste, but at the moment we plan to possibly see Zimmer 90 and then decide if we can be arsed to hang around until 2manyDJs play about six hours later!  

You clearly weren't there last year for the The Kooks + Kid Cudi day lol

 

But yeah, ain't brilliant. On the bright side: I don't have to budget energy so much because after day 3 is over I can basically lay back and chill most of the time

[thetime]

17 minutes ago, Yelo, the Parmiggiana said:

You clearly weren't there last year for the The Kooks + Kid Cudi day lol

 

But yeah, ain't brilliant. On the bright side: I don't have to budget energy so much because after day 3 is over I can basically lay back and chill most of the time

 

Kid cudi day was decent day i thought. 

 

[bunnyv]

4 hours ago, thetime said:

 

Kid cudi day was decent day i thought. 

 

Blossoms was brill.

[eyebrain]

 

8 hours ago, activean said:

Counting down the days, what are your daily plans? 

 

 

Managed to go crazy again, will prolly skip some, but that’s my current plan. Maybe gives some of you some ideas. 
will try to catch luminarium, traveling funfair and all the rest as well in between. 

 

 

MONDAY

21.30 - 23.00 Faithless (Main Stage)

 

TUESDAY

15.00 - 15.30 manoAmano: KINEMATOS (Cirque du Sziget)

17.30 - 18.30 Wolf Alice (Main Stage)

18.30 - 18.45 Flag Party (Main Stage)

20.00 - 20.45 Siegfried & Joy (The Joker)

21.30 - 22.45 sombr (Main Stage) 

23.00 - 00.00 East London Strippers Collective: Ask A Stripper (The Joker)

01.30 - 03.00 Underworld (Revolut)

 

WEDNESDAY

13.00 - 14.00 Boglarka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm: Figuring Age (Le DOME)

19.15 - 20.30 Biffy Clyro (Main Stage)

21.15 - 22.50 Twenty One Pilots (Main Stage)

23.00 - 00.00 Recirquel: Liberty Love Rave (Le Grand Theatre)

01.30 - 03.30 Yousuke Yukimatsu (Colosseum)

 

THURSDAY

14.30 - 15.30 Alen Nsambu: Neon Beige (Magic Mirror) 

16.30 - 17.30 Black Country, New Road (Revolut)

17.30 - 18.30 Loyle Carner (Main Stage)

18.30 - 19.30 Teen Mortgage (The Buzz)

21.15 - 22.45 Florence + The Machine (Main Stage)

23.30 - 00.30 Koven (Der Klub)

00.40 - 01.40 Night Tapes (The Buzz)

 

FRIDAY

13.00 - 14.00 Mate Meszzaros, Andras Szombathy, Patrik Keresztes, Abris Gryllus: Pitch Black River (Le Dome)

16.05 - 16.45 Sodakill (Light Stage)

17.30 - 18.30 Sigrid (Main Stage)

19.15 - 20.30 Skepta (Main Stage)

21.30 - 23.00 Bring Me The Horizon (Main Stage)

23.45 - 01.00 Nia Archives (Revolut)

 

SATURDAY

15.00 - 15.30 SUB.LAB.PRO - Valenting Alfery: Slow Burner (Mobilis)

16.00 - 16.30 Ahmed Ayed:  …and nobody else (Mobilis) 

17.15 - 18.15 All Star Exhibition Dance Battle (The Cypher)

18.30 - 19.30 Stand-Up Comedy (The Joker)

20.00 - 21.00 Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer: The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave (Le Dome)

23.00 - 23.50 ZEP (dropYard)

00.00 - 01.15 Soulwax (Revolut)

01.45 - 03.00 Dimension (Bolt Night Stage)

Edited Wednesday at 23:49 by eyebrain

[CCester]

The passport reveal must be around the corner, the page is live with an unavailable youtube video. 

https://szigetfestival.com/hu/passport

[ReljaGajić]

37 minutes ago, CCester said:

The passport reveal must be around the corner, the page is live with an unavailable youtube video. 

https://szigetfestival.com/hu/passport

It's been like that for months, I was checking quite often, but yeah, it should be close, I'm also checking here: https://issuu.com/sziget

[kristofm]

1.5 hours long, although it's in Hungarian

[CCester]

14 minutes ago, kristofm said:

1.5 hours long, although it's in Hungarian

Automatic translation seems to be okay at first glance.

I need some hopium from the man himself.

[billybigballs]

4 hours ago, CCester said:

Automatic translation seems to be okay at first glance.

I need some hopium from the man himself.

Is anything said we need to be aware of?

[CCester]

38 minutes ago, billybigballs said:

Is anything said we need to be aware of?

They built a watering system and have been watering the island for the past few weeks to reduce dust, but given the current drought, there will still be dust.

They will cover twice as much ground around the main stage with those plastic panels as they did before.

They couldn't book Gogol Bordello because the singer was afraid the government would allow Russian security services to capture him if he entered the country.

They didn't have much room to be selective about artists. They booked whoever they could get.

This year's Sziget will be only about 50% of his original vision. He wanted a dedicated rock stage.

They are preparing for a loss of 1.5 billion HUF this year.

For some reason, student tickets are not selling in the numbers they had expected.

He said that when he talks about the lineup being less important, he doesn't mean Sziget should have a weaker lineup than Primavera. Rather, it should have a similarly strong lineup combined with much more non-musical programming, so people from abroad come here to see the same artists but have a completely different overall experience.

He didn't miss Sziget and originally wanted to spend no more than two days a week dealing with it, but now he's working on it full-time and has handed over control of the rest of his businesses.

 

[activean]

Sounds good tbh. 

[CCester]

The Bródy Day was his idea because Sziget has always been late when it comes to this kind of concert. They would only organize farewell performances or tribute shows after an artist had passed away. Since Bródy is one of the country's greatest singer-songwriters, they wanted to honor him while he is still alive. (He didn't say it exactly like that, but the man is 80 and has just stopped playing large concerts.)

He never understood why anyone would focus exclusively on one generation, especially Gen Z, who have less disposable income, drink less, and are, in his words, "afraid of partying." He explained that in the past, people loved festivals because of the nonstop partying, whereas many younger people today find that experience overwhelming or exhausting. That's one of the reasons why Sziget will introduce more chill zones and sensory-friendly spaces.

They also want to attract older generations, who are generally more willing and able to spend money. The Sziget Icons days are aimed at this audience, and in the future they hope to create a more balanced lineup that appeals to people over 35 as well.

 

It was a long interview. If anything else comes to mind, I'll share it.