The Chemical Brothers are headlining Hungary’s biggest and longest music festival.
The Chemical Brothers are headlining Hungary’s biggest and longest music festival this August.
The Sziget Festival is 168 hours of festival held on Obudai Island on the Danube River that runs through Budapest. Now in its fifteenth year, the festival the biggest, longest and most diverse music festival in Central Europe. Check out RA’s event coverage from last year for a taste of what it’s all about.
The festival has just confirmed a couple of dozen names for 2007, including The Chemical Brothers, DJ Hell and Faithless. Here’s the list so far.
Confirmed artists
Main Stage:
Chemical Brothers, Faithless, The Killers, Pink, The Hives, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Gogol Bordello, Gentleman, Sportfreunde Stiller, Smashing Pumpkins, Keane, Nitzer Ebb
Party Arena:
Timo Maas, Plump DJs, Dave Clarke, Satoshi Tomiie, DJ Hell, Silicone Soul, Goldie, Blame, Lowqui, Simon Bassline Smith + Youngman MC
Wan2 Stage:
GusGus, Hyper, Hooverphonic
The Sziget Festival takes place on Obudai Island in Budapest, Hungary from August 8th – 15th, 2007.