Sziget Offers Something for Everyone

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Archív / 2009. július 27.

The festival will start with a concert by the Hungarian band Tankcsapda, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. The set list for the gig, which promises to be the band's most spectacular ever, will include classics going back two decades.

Big acts coming to the main stage include the recently re-formed Faith No More, Placebo, The Offspring, Bloc Party, Manic Street Preachers, Klaxons, Primal Scream, IAMX, Max?mo Park, Die Toten Hosen, Danko Jones, JET, The Ting Tings, Editors, The Subways, Disco Ensemble and Snow Patrol, who opened for U2 on their No Line on the Horizon world tour.

Australian indie band The Expatriate, whose debut album In the Midst of This came out in 2007, will play in Hungary for the first time at this year's Sziget, while one of Germany's most popular punk rock bands, the Donots, will bring their latest offering, Coma Chameleon. Satyricon, who turned to industrial metal in 2008, will perform material off of their latest album Age of Nero. Turbonegro, the Norwegian band that revolutionized hard rock, is on the line-up, as is Life of Agony, the Brooklyn-based heavy metal band who are hard at work on their fifth studio album, and the industrial metal act Deathstars.

The punk line-up at this year's festival will be brightened up by Backyard Babies, the Swedish new-wave cum glam-punk band well known for their 2002 release Stockholm Syndrome.

Acts on the A38-WAN2 Stage include the popular UK indie band White Lies, and De Staat, which was picked by a popular Dutch DJ as the best band of 2009.