I survived Sziget

So I’m back home from the Sziget festival in Hungary. What are its results? I made the following promise to my body for the next week: no drink/smokes/gyros. The first amazing realization was the similarity between Vienna, Budapest (where the festival was held) and Bratislava. The festival wasn’t that well organized (there weren’t even extra busses or hevs (subways)) but nonetheless it was way smoother than NovaRock 07 or Aerodrome04. Maybe that was just the mentality of the people. I also suspect that not understanding anything said made the people and environment way nicer.

I was at the NiN concert (no surprise here), it was great. I wasn’t able to attend the Tool concert as this was on the forth festival day and motivation to move from my friend’s flat to the festival place was to low. I just read that Tool’s frontman Maynard Keenan canceled his appearance on this week’s Frequency festival due to problems with his voice– hopefully this will be soon solved. Another act which I was eager to watch (Chris Cornell) had to cancel his appearance at sziget due to the same reason. His slot was filled with Juliette and the Licks. Maybe it was just the feel of loss,or she really sucked that hard. The main act were The Killers which I’ve seen before at Nova Rock. As I knew more of their cds by now I really enjoyed the concert. There were plenty of other bands (Hives, Razorlight, P!nk) which were seen and the World Stage was populated with great musicians from all over the world.

But the best part of it was staying in a country with a language which I just don’t understand. No computer, no mails, no television, radio or magazines (which I’d understand).. felt really great.

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