The Prodigy, Iggy Pop and & The Stooges, Living Colour the Sex Pistols? Glen Matlock, Gomez and Sons and Daughters have all been recently added to the list of acts performing on the festival?s main stage. The venue is already hosting performances by Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, the Scissor Sisters, Placebo, the Rasmus, Therapy? and Jovanotti.
The Prodigy is undoubtedly one of the most important acts of the last ten to fifteen years. The band, which rewrote the rules for electronic dance music, had the whole world moving to its music in the first half of the 90s. The Prodigy gave a face, a sound and credentials to electronic dance music, bringing a genre which was formerly exclusively a club sound to the stadium stage, making fans of everyone from listeners of electronic music to lovers of rock ?n roll.
Iggy & The Stooges is among the most influential acts in the history of rock. Their albums, legendary concerts and frighteningly unforgettable hits have provided the foundations for bands such as the Sex Pistols, Guns ?N Roses, Jane?s Addiction, Queens of the Stone Age, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sonic Youth. They have also strongly influenced Hungarian bands, such as URH, Európa Kiadó and Flash.
Glen Matlock, one of the founding members of the Sex Pistols, will play the main stage exactly thirty years after the release of the band?s ?The Great Rock ?n? Roll Swindle?. Matlock was the group?s most skilled and most inventive member, but left during the recording of ?Never Mind the Bollocks? to be replaced on bass guitar by the less-skilled Sid Vicious. Matlock is sure to please the Sziget crowd with some of his older hits, which are among rock?s best known.
Sons and Daughters, the two-man, two-woman Scottish guitar pop band is not new wave, like their fans Franz Ferdinand, nor are they staid and intellectual, like Belle and Sebastian. Sons and Daughters plays biting art-rock, folk rock guitar music, sometimes punk and sometimes rockabilly, but always with the right effect. The group?s first album was ?Love The Cup? (2003), but their real break was in 2005. with the release of ?The Repulsion Box?.
England?s Gomez will play material off their latest album ?How We Operate?, perhaps their best effort since their smash premiere long-play ?Bring It On?.
Living Colour, the legendary 80s cross-over band from New York will play a year after the Sziget Festival hosted the legendary cross-over band from Los Angeles Fishbone.
Source: Port.hu
