Hungary's Sziget announces Queens Of The Stone Age

plus Calvin Harris, Placebo, Bastille, Imagine Dragons, & others

By Scott Williams | Published: Wed 22nd Jan 2014

Sziget Festival 2014

Monday 11th to Monday 18th August 2014
Margit-sziget, an island in the Danube, Budapest, Budapest, Hungary MAP
only day tickets £44 available, plus booking fees

Daily capacity: 70,000

Queens of the Stone Age, Calvin Harris, Placebo, Bastille, Imagine Dragons, Stromae, Klaxons, Laidback Luke, and Starlight Girls are the first acts confirmed to appear at Hungary's Sziget which takes place on an island in the Danube, Budapest, Hungary from Wednesday 13th to Monday 18th August 2014, with camping available from Monday 11th August.

Sziget has loads of other things on offer to festival goers, as well as the music, there is; theatre, dance, classical music, cabaret, performances, films, fine art, crafts, literary presentations, programmes for kids, sports and other free time activities. In 2012 the Sziget Festival was visited by Michael Eavis, who said Sziget is "a fantastic festival, more colourful and probably a lot cleaner than Glastonbury."

Sziget Festival, (pronounced see'-get) takes place on Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island"), an island in the Danube, Budapest, Hungary. Taking place in August, the festival started as a local event in 1993 playing host to various Hungarian artists and has grown into a large European festival, showcasing over a thousand international artists over 60 stages, from many genres, to 400,000 daily visitors, half of which come from outside Hungary.

For the line-up details as available please click here.

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Early bird tickets have sold out. Tickets are available at the Tier 1 price until 30th April. A five day pass (non-camping) is priced at £150 and a weekly pass with camping is priced at £175, day tickets are priced at £41, and a caravan ticket is £110. Booking fees also apply.

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