

Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #5: Chvrches
There comes that silly moment in your life when you’re facing Sziget’s main stage on which Noel Gallagher is performing some mighty nice...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #6: Bloc Party
It kind of ups your indie credential if you have a song, possibly from an old (read: first) album, possibly a big hit (read: your biggest...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #7: Die Antwoord
I once spent a good bit of a flight trying not to watch Chappie, Neil Blomkamp’s disturbed brainchild involving Ninja and Yolandi...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #8: UNKLE
All I can remember about the previous time I saw UNKLE on the island is that I was very tired and I liked it. Well, not being tired, but...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #9: M83
As the A38 tent became larger and more centrally situated, the organizers started packing it with ever better acts, so much so that it...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #10: RóisÃn Murphy and Bastille
Last year I began the best concert countdown with the remark of how strong the line up was, so this year, for a change, I'll whine a bit....


Many Things You've Come to Expect- Sziget Day Five
I am guilty as charged: sometimes, even during a concert I quite like, if there is a lull in the proceedings, I take out my phone with...


Rappers of the World Unite- Sziget Day Two
Saturday begins with the odd realization that the festival has only just begun in earnest- and is already heading into it's second sold...


Of Sausages and Rain- Sziget Day Minus 1
I had been pretty impressed with the way the new entry system works, which did not seem to get clogged in spite of the ID check- people...


Wienerwald is More Than a Forest
Some weeks ago I happened to find out that the Budapest railjet now arrives to Vienna’s Hauptbahnof instead of good old Westbahnhof- of...