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Event Information:
The Sziget Festival is one of the
largest music and cultural festivals
in Europe. The festival is held
annually in August in Budapest,
Hungary and takes place on
Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island"), a
leafy island of 108 hectares on the
Danube, thus Sziget stands for
Island. Currently it holds more than
1000 performances each year.
The week-long festival has grown
from a relatively low-profile 1993
student event to become one of the
definitive European rock festivals
by the late 1990s, with about half
of all visitors coming from outside
Hungary, including the UK and
France. It also has a dedicated
"party train" service (with resident
DJ's) that transports festivalgoers
from Western Europe. The second
event (1994), labeled Eurowoodstock,
was headlined by performers from the
original festival 25 years after. In
1997, Sziget attendancy rates
surpassed the 250 000 mark, and in
2001, the 350 000 mark. The all-time
peak year was 2009 with 390 000
visitors. It is now being
increasingly labeled as a European
alternative to the Burning Man
festival due to its unique features.
In , Sziget was ranked one of
the 5 best festivals in Europe by
The Independent, and one of the 10
best by the European Festival
Awards.
In 2002, Sziget branched out to
Transylvania when its organizers
co-created a new annual festival
there titled Félsziget Fesztivál
(Romanian: Festivalul Peninsula)
that soon became one of the largest
of its kind in Romania. In 2007,
the organizers created Balaton
Sound, an electronic music festival
that quickly gained popularity.
Line up for :
The Killers
DJ Fresh
Korn
Noah and the Whale
Paolo Nutini
Placebo
Snoop Dogg
Sum 41
The Stone Roses
The Ting Tings
The Vaccines
Amon Amarth
Anna Calvi
Anti Flag
Azari & III
Beatsteaks
Bonaparte
Caro Emerald
Citizens!
Crookers
Crystal Fighters
Danakil
Dirtyphonics
dEUS
Dope D.O.D
Fink
Flying Lotus
Friendly Fires
Glasvegas
Gocoo
Hammerfall
Heideroosjes
High Contrast
I Cani
Ignite
Kakkamaddafakka
Katzenjammer
Kraak & Smaak
Lacuna Coil
Lamb
Mando Diao
Maxďmo Park
Ministry
Moonspell
The Black Seeds
The Roots
The Subways
The xx
Tiga
Two Door Cinema Club
Yonderboi
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