Sziget Festival 2017

[AndrewSmith]

Not for me this year, only interest so far for me is Kasabian, Billy Talent, TDCC and Metronomy. Maybe next year

[Uncle Liam]

Metronomy in the midnight slot on the A38 would be excellent. 

[Noeliam]

23 minutes ago, Uncle Liam said:

Metronomy in the midnight slot on the A38 would be excellent. 

Metronomy, The Kills, Clean Bandit, Billy Talent and Kasabian are on main stage;

2 last dj's on party arena;

Leningrad on world music, and all the others on A38. Im looking forward to the midnight slots of Flume and Crystal Fighters mostly

[thetime]

Personally think the lineup is looking not to bad, better than I thought it would be. Not a fan of any of the headliners but plenty across the lineup I will watch.

Hoping the next few headliners is more to my liking.

 

Edited January 25, 2017 by thetime

[Uncle Liam]

How many headliners do we have? The stupid end party, Major Lazer, Kasabian (or will they sub again?). Actually wouldve though Rudimental would've been on the mainstage.

 

[Diocane]

For the moment Kasabian, ML, DV&LM are obviously listed as headliners on sziget's website, cause they're the biggest acts on the mainstage now. But at sziget headlining and co-headlining is pretty much the same thing so there could be other "headliner-size" playing with each of these three. E.G. Kasabian headlined with avicii, ML with kings of leon last time.

 

There's no Rudimental, it was a mistake I suppose.

[thetime]

What happened to rudimental? 

[neacaisa]

and another question, why wasn't fritz kalkbrenner ruled out for this by playing volt? does the double booking happen sometimes for undercards?

Edited January 25, 2017 by neacaisa

[Noeliam]

23 hours ago, neacaisa said:

and another question, why wasn't fritz kalkbrenner ruled out for this by playing volt? does the double booking happen sometimes for undercards?

It rarely happens but in this case it did! Don't know why

 

 

[Uncle Liam]

Korn announced for Reading so there's another Sziget headliner. 

[amfy]

There is now a pretty significant overlap with The Reading/Leeds line up which may allay some fears of Sziget going too much towards EDM.

[Diocane]

Korn before Dimitri Vegas would save that Main stage evening

[neacaisa]

Summer well festival in Romania, all that are not announced yet have a good chance for sziget now.

[Diocane]

So two acts

But yes,

- Birdy very likely for an early evening A38 spot (she already played at Volt couple years ago)

- and Nothing But Thieves are playing Kendall Calling, Lowlands, so likely too

 

[Noeliam]

55 minutes ago, neacaisa said:

Summer well festival in Romania, all that are not announced yet have a good chance for sziget now.

Would take both in A38, especially Birdy  

I guess we can count on a Balaton/ Volt announcement and have something by the end of february (we'll know more with the Pukkelpop lineup which comes in march?)

[amfy]

My husband loves Kasabian so is delighted with that announcement, but also absolutely adores Birdy and she is someone we've not seen before. We would be delighted if she was on the line up and she would be a 'must see' against almost anyone!

[19liam75]

hello, never been to this festival thinking of going this year, can someone please explain whether all the headliners have been announced now or if there is still more to be announced, how many acts still left to announce? Also, what day does the music start, thanks

[king_oxymoron]

Hi Liam 

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, people.

No, plenty of headliners still to come. There's 7 days of music, beginning on the 9th August (day -1) - on this day not all the stages are open but there's plenty going on and acts all day on the main stage as usual - a higher proportion of Hungarian acts but usually a big international headliner. We don't think we have had this name yet. The music goes on until the 15th August.

Overall so far we have had three headliners (Kasabian, Major Lazer and Dmitri Vegas/Like Mike). The latter will headline the End Party, but as in recent years there's usually a fairly decent name on before them. That means there's four headliners and a potentially big sub on the final day still to come. 

Overall how many acts to announce is hard to say. Plenty, though, I would have thought. These are literally described on the website as 'the first names'. I would imagine as we still have over 50% of headliners to come that we still have over 50% of undercard to come also.

 

Hope this helps, it's a top festival.

[amfy]

I think The Chemical Brothers weren't announced til about June last year!

It a bit like Glastonbury in that it's a great festival pretty much regardless of the line up - loads to do and see, a great vibe, and interesting music you've not heard before all over the place - but I do think you need a handful of acts you'd like to see just to give it some focus - especially as it is such a long festival.

[Uncle Liam]

It's a great festival for boozing there's no doubt about that

[MadDogh]

I'm really thinking about going to Sziget again, lineup looks not too bad. Last time I was there 10 years ago, wild island.

[ilbeyene]

2 hours ago, MadDogh said:

I'm really thinking about going to Sziget again, lineup looks not too bad. Last time I was there 10 years ago, wild island.

First time I went was 9 years ago man, and I never stopped. It's a bit different but still the best place on earth

[siiiim]

On 2/9/2017 at 5:30 PM, Uncle Liam said:

It's a great festival for boozing there's no doubt about that

Not really imo. There's almost no choice of alcohol at all. You'll be sick of Dreher by the end of the festival, cause there's nothing else to drink.. Price wise.. still a good festival for booze i guess.

[SpongeNob]

With Linkin Park releasing a new single next week, and an album on the way - reckon they might make an appearance at Sziget? Especially with Reading and Leeds around the same time. 

What other acts are people thinking might make an appearance? 

[pete76]

39 minutes ago, SpongeNob said:

With Linkin Park releasing a new single next week, and an album on the way - reckon they might make an appearance at Sziget? Especially with Reading and Leeds around the same time. 

What other acts are people thinking might make an appearance? 

LP are playing Volt festiwal at the end of june, i think their european tour ends in first week of July. They won't be at Reading / Leeds for sure.