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SZIGET
2009 Press release
Sziget 2009 12-17 Aug 2009, Budapest, Hungary
Sziget 2009 - Rock on the Sziget
The great thing about Sziget - our favourite festival - is that
while at one particular spot the party is swinging, somewhere else the crowd
is grooving to the sound of world music. In another corner, the audience
is spellbound by a street theatre performance, and yet elsewhere, it's
international Roma music that's seducing the crowd. And still, there
are many more different stages and plethora music styles to tune into. It's
all happening during the second week of August 2009.
Of course, there will
be no shortage of rock music either on the Sziget. Bands will be thrashing
out on the main stage, trashing the rock stage, shaking
the A38-Wan2 stage and there will be plenty of twist and shout going down
on many more stages. Even on the -1 Day, the Main Stage will be the realm
of the rockers when Hungarian band Tankcsapda, who celebrate their 20th anniversary
this year, will give the biggest and most spectacular gig in their long history.
The set list will consist of classic tracks stretching back across their
two decades of existence.
It goes without saying that the main stage will keep on rocking
for the whole week. The likes of: the recently reformed Faith No More; Placebo,
who raised
the darker side of the glam wave into popular culture; and The Offspring,
labelled as one of the most successful punk bands of all time, require little
introduction.
Furthermore, the Main Stage will host: Glasgow-based Northern-Irish
Snow Patrol, who opened for U2 on their No Line On The Horizon world tour;
Bloc
Party, the most successful British indie band of the post millennium years;
the Manic Street Preachers, one of the most indefinable bands of popular
culture; Klaxons, Great Britain's extravagant acid-rave sci-fi punk-funk
band; and Glasgow's pride, Primal Scream. And just to shortlist other
key names of the rock line-up on the main stage: I AM X, Maxïmo Park,
Die Toten Hosen, Danko Jones, JET, The Ting Tings, Editors, The Subways and
Disco Ensemble. So there will be loads of Rock ‘n’ Roll on the
Main Stage, as well as on another stage solely dedicated to the genre. The
MTV Headbangers Ball Rock stage will be housed in a big tent where Hungarian
and international metal, punk, hardcore, pop-rock, hard-rock, blues and indie
bands will perform. Australian indie band The Expatriate, whose debut album
In the Midst of This came out in 2007, will play in Hungary for the first
time at this year's Sziget while one of Germany’s most popular
punk rock bands, the Donots, will bring their latest offering, Coma Chameleon,
to this year's Sziget. Cleansing themselves of their dark forces,
Satyricon, who in 2008 took an industrial metal, Nine Inch Nails like turn,
will haunt
us with their latest Age Of Neroval album. On this year's Sziget the
audience can cross paths with the Norwegian band that revolutionized hard
rock under the name of Turbonegro, once again. Life of Agony, the Brooklyn
heavy metal ensemble who are currently hard at work on their fifth studio
album; and the Deathstars, those black diamonds shining high in the dark
sky of industrial metal, will be creating mayhem on the 17th Sziget, as well.
The punk line-up on this year’s festival will be brightened up by Backyard
Babies, the Swedish new-wave cum glam-punk band, who with their 2002 Stockholm
Syndrome album won a Grammy Award back home. While working on their fourth
album, Brujeria is getting ready to launch another musical offensive on the
metal battlefield of the Sziget. Further acts on the A38-Wan2 Stage include
White Lies, the trendiest UK indie band. On the same stage, Dutch hopefuls
De Staat can prove in front of the Hungarian audience why they were chosen
by the most popular radio DJ in the Netherlands as the band of 2009.