Sziget Festival Hungary

Nurglespawn

First of all did anyone here go to it?

Sziget.hu

for anyone that didn't, a quick lowdown:

8 days camping ticket = 100 euro
about 200 bands
30 or so stages
god knows how many bars
385,000 people at it this year
no set campsite, camp wherever you like
in the middle of budapest on an island
beer is about 50 cent or less

questions?

Bluetonic

Are there idiots walking around in Celtic and GAA jerseys?

See you'd miss that.

So you would.

:rolleyes:

Lord Panic

Couldn afford it after Rock im Park, but a friend went, and after hearing about it there's no way I could miss it next year! Sounds amazing!

p.pete

I've thought about going before but have yet to make it. No Glastonbury on next year so may try organise it

Nurglespawn

sorry, should have said, the next festyival is september-ish next year

the only muppits i saw in irish jerseys were the ones in our group. i didnt stoop to that level, i stuck to a giant tricolor wraped round me roarin rebal tunes clutchin a bottle of hungarian wine. some session.

going to go all out next year, we got "Have you got any irish in ya? Would ya like some?" translated into hungarian so we can print it on t-shirts.

so classy it hurts.

humbleCounty

heard really good things about this, like p.pete said no glasto next year, so this is defo getting pencilled in, might even bring the glasto flag!. funds allowing.

would love to go.

Civilian_Target

I was in the area, but didn't go. People who I know did go complained bitterly about it. The overall feeling I got was that Serbia's Exit Festival (http://www.exitfest.org/eng/) in Novi Sad was the best festival of the summer in South-eastern Europe, particularly if you're into metal or dance....

p.pete

Civilian_Target wrote:

I was in the area, but didn't go. People who I know did go complained bitterly about it. The overall feeling I got was that Serbia's Exit Festival (http://www.exitfest.org/eng/) in Novi Sad was the best festival of the summer in South-eastern Europe, particularly if you're into metal or dance....

I get the impression Sziget isn't really targeted at metal or dance - although you're likely to find some of both amongst everything else. Can you remember any specific complaints that were raised?

Appart from the lineup at Novi Sad is there anything else to recommend it over Sziget? I've had a look at Szigets' lineup for the last 2 or 3 years and it's never seemed particularly impressive to me but I don't think big headline acts is the point of the festival.

Civilian_Target

Well - this year the weather was a complete washout - its an island with virtually no shelter, and the danube was a lot higher than usual, which left them with a lot less island than expected, and transport problems as well.

Its also very crowded with very little room for tents, and because of the water levels its always extremely mucky.
Toilets and shower facilities make witness/oxygen look sophisticated in comparison.
And beer generally tends to be between €1 and €1.50, contrary to what the original poster said.
That said, if you're going to be off your face for the entire festival it makes little or no difference...

honru

Know a few people who went, you'd probably be wrecked after three days, let alone seven. While the craic would be great, it's a shame the lineup is pretty crap tbh. There's a few bands on the metal stage that I would've been interested in, aswell as two or three others, but that's it.

I went to the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium, €108 for three days and, while the beer wasn't €1 or anything (although you can still drink fairly well with the great beer they have over there), the lineup was incredible. Cheaper to get over there too.

p.pete

Benicassim (nearish to Valencia) is the other festival that I'd have my eye on for next year - something about a festival by the beach that's appealing

dimerocks

i remeber reading about that hungarian one last year it is meant to be class.how much did it cost you do you reckon?

Civilian_Target

I went to Hurricane in Germany this summer, instead of Exit or Sziget (despite the fact that I was actually only working down the road from Novi Sad, so I really should have gone to Exit at least), and it set me back about €300 overall. Beer was €2 a pint, €3 in the festival area, but it was truly delicious beer, and food was very affordable, you could get a chinese takeaway in the festival area for a fiver and a Bratwurst was €2 as well. It was absolutely fantastic.

http://blogs.boards.ie/civiliantarget/2005/06/18/bestweekendever/

bazzman

went to spain this year with a few friends and went to the bullfights, flights cost 200euro which wasn`t bad for peak july. had free accommodation which was sweet, paid 30euro for the rent of a house to go drinking and for all the drink alond whit about 20-30 other people. savage time.
hope to go there next summre too but not to sure about the free accommodation this time so ill be bringing the tent although i might be able to scam myself in to someones house

RDM_83

highly recommend sziget.the lineup isn't great for the length of the festival but if you've a broad taste in music there is always something on ( alot of the bands on the smaller stages are pretty good)also the outdoor theatre productions are really really impresive (and make absolutly no sense) e.g. loads of fireworks,drums and people rotating on poles.toilets are in general terrible and showers normally cold but there are warm ones in certain areas and clean toilets as well (with roll).atmosphere is amazing especially on day zero (large group of huge rockers going mad to 'rythm is a dancer')

kientrinkwasser

I was at EXIT in Novi Sad and it was UNBELEIVEABLE!

The festival rocks, the women are beautiful, everything is dirt cheap.

Best festival i've ever been at with this years electric picnic coming a close second.

TOP NOTCH STUFF!!!!!

honru

Civilian_Target wrote:

I went to Hurricane in Germany this summer, instead of Exit or Sziget (despite the fact that I was actually only working down the road from Novi Sad, so I really should have gone to Exit at least), and it set me back about €300 overall. Beer was €2 a pint, €3 in the festival area, but it was truly delicious beer, and food was very affordable, you could get a chinese takeaway in the festival area for a fiver and a Bratwurst was €2 as well. It was absolutely fantastic.

That's very affordable, even the tickets are dirt cheap I believe. The lineup is usually fantastic, not lengthy but definetly a case of quality over quantity. Might consider it next summer.

Another festival I went to this year was Rock Werchter, also in Belgium. It was situated right Leuven, the home of Stella Artois, so the beer was fúcking lovely. Best part of it all was if you collected 20 cups, you got a free beer (which really isn't that hard, yet it's a common practice on continental festivals). To my surprise, I barely had to spend a penny, lasted four days on €30 (mostly for food) and was constantly pissed.

Oh yeah, and the lineup was brilliant too.

Civilian_Target

kientrinkwasser wrote:

I was at EXIT in Novi Sad and it was UNBELEIVEABLE!

The festival rocks, the women are beautiful, everything is dirt cheap.

I second that. Serbian women are absolutely stunning. They keep their bodies in a state that puts Irish women to shame!

That's very affordable, even the tickets are dirt cheap I believe. The lineup is usually fantastic, not lengthy but definetly a case of quality over quantity. Might consider it next summer.

Another festival I went to this year was Rock Werchter, also in Belgium. It was situated right Leuven, the home of Stella Artois, so the beer was fúcking lovely. Best part of it all was if you collected 20 cups, you got a free beer (which really isn't that hard, yet it's a common practice on continental festivals). To my surprise, I barely had to spend a penny, lasted four days on €30 (mostly for food) and was constantly pissed.

Yeah - tickets were €90, return transport (flight & trains) was €150.

And the cups things applied too - return 5 cups (in the festival area) or 3 cans (in the camp site) and get a free beer! Now theres an incentive to keep the campsite clean. There were barbeque points too, which just kicked ass! I think the total cost of the festival was about €350 for me - I drank a *lot* and bought a fair bit of food too...