SOME FACTS ABOUT SZIGET FESTIVAL
Sziget Festival is one of the biggest cultural events of Europe, attracting almost 400 000 people from over 40 countries each year to the heart of Budapest.
The venue is an island on river Danube, creating a special atmosphere with the unique mixture of party, city and nature.
Sziget is many festivals in one, a non-stop event with almost 60 program venues and around 250 programs daily, so whatever music you like, you will surely find it there.
Sziget has 5 big open-air stages, many smaller live stages and several DJ venues, including the giant Party Arena.
The festival is not just about music, it offers several other cultural programs, like theatre, circus, or exhibitions. And we shouldn’t forget about Budapest itself: a touristic city with a lively cultural scene, beautiful historic buildings, Turkish spas, special ’ruin pubs’, etc. If you are not the camper type, you will also find a huge number of hotels and hostels near the festival venue.
Sziget is a festival city in itself, offering almost unlimited camping possibilities, VIP camping, post, laundry, shops, bars, sports facilities, internet cafe and a lot more.
Ticket prices: Weekly camping ticket: 200 EUR, non-camping ticket: 170 EUR . Daily tickets : 45 EUR.
New features for 2011:
- We will change the rock-metal tent to a huge rock-metal open-air stage.
- We will make the the Party Arena tent (mainstream electro venue) about 30% bigger, so it will grow to a mega party tent.
- We will build a new open-air stage named Europe Stage, for new upcoming European talents, breaking markets in their own countries (but not yet know in Hungary and in many other parts in Europe).
- Our Roma Tent will celebrate its 10th birthday this year, so it will include a bigger tent and a bigger stage + a very strong Balkan music program also featuring many great Central-Eastern European artists.
- The beloved meduza tent (underground electro venue) will recieve a totally new outfit/installation which is double as big as it was in the previous years.
- We’ll create a new venue called Eastern-European Travelling Funfair.
- We will have a new venue called Sziget Paradise, a venue all about love, health and happiness for mankind.
Sziget Festival - Line Up 2011
Prince, Amy Winehouse, Batucada Sound Machine, Ben l’Oncle Soul, Dizzee Rascal, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, Good Charlotte, Hadouken!, Interpol, Kasabian, La Roux, Manic Street Preachers, Mariachi El Bronx, Overflow, Pulp, Rise Against, Skunk Anansie, The Chemical Brothers, The Maccabees, The National, White Lies, British Sea Power, The Prodigy, Empire of the Sun, Kate Nash, Kaiser Chiefs, Elvis Jackson, For a Minor Reflection, Francis International Airport, Go back to the Zoo, Gravity Co., Ismo Alanko & Teho, Puding Pani Elvisovej, Skyline, Söhne Mannheims, The Mono Jacks, Triggerfinger, Verdena, Wallace Vanborn, La Shica, 2manydjs, Above & Beyond, Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, Carlo Lio, Cristian Varela, Dubfire, Goose, Kid Cudi, Richie Hawtin, Technasia, Trentemøller, Zombie Nation, Empire of the Sun, Deftones, Helloween, Judas Priest, Lostprophets, Motörhead, Sonata Arctica, Within Temptation and many more..
Sziget Festival - Line Up 2010
Muse, Iron Maiden, Faithless, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Kasabian: Madness and Johhny Rotten's band (after Sex Pistols) Public Enemy, Jared Leto - actor and frontman of Thirty Seconds to Mars will be performing, as well as legendary alt-diva Nina Hagen. Calvin Harris, Yeasayer, Major Lazer, Charlie Winston, Fear Factory, Death Valley Screamers, Rada & Ternovik, Young Punx, Kamelot, Breakestra and Simian Mobile Disco