Every year, the vibrant city of Budapest hosts one of Europe's most celebrated music festivals, Sziget. Known as "The Island of Freedom," Sziget Festival takes place on the picturesque…
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Love on the island of freedom: 10 wedding proposal stories from Sziget
Sziget festival is special. It has had an influence in the lives of many of us. I have said it many times before. Some even found love on the island. Some even proposed!
This was Sziget festival 2023
Following the end of the Communist era in 1989, the formerly lively summer festival scene in Budapest faced a crisis due to a sudden loss of governmental funding. A group…
Wanna make your first music festival experience in the UK? Take a look at the Victorious festival
As a music lover and long-time festival goer, over the years I’ve had the chance to visit all sorts of festivals in America and Europe. However I have never attended a festival…
We love Sziget festival and here's why!
Summer is synonymous with festivals, and in August, visiting Budapest has long since become almost an unwritten rule. No matter what happens, one way or another, with…
Documentary in the making: "Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza"
It may not be your favourite festival, but Lollapalooza's fame and prominence in the history of music festivals since its inception more than…
Backstage for an itinerant music festival
The beach of Portimao in the Portuguese Algarve was witness to the power and importance of (good) architecture last summer during the Afronation and Rolling Loud…
I’m coming back to Sziget!
In exactly 100 days the doors of the island of freedom will be opening for a new edition of Sziget festival and one more time, I am gonna be there. This shouldn't be news…
This was Sziget festival 2022
I don't really know how to start this article. Nor do I really know what I want to say because I have mixed feelings. What I do know is that when the long-awaited 28th Sziget…
Get ready (finally) for the first edition of the Superbloom festival
Announced just before the pandemic, this first edition of the Superbloom festival comes after two initial cancellations. Undoubtedly a difficult start for a new festival…
10 shows you can’t miss at Sziget 2022
We have had to wait three years to be able to say that in exactly one week, a new edition of the Sziget festival begins. Who would have thought it when we crossed…
Lolla goes to India!
Thirty years years after Ted Gardner, Don Muller, Marc Geiger and Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction) who, inspired by Britain's Reading Festival, conceived what today…
This was Mad Cool 2022
Although I've been living in Berlin for years, I was born and raised in Madrid. Despite this, I had never been to the Mad Cool festival before. What's more, in spite of the impressive…
This was Mallorca Live Festival 2022
Lights and shadows at the Mallorca Live Festival. Being as it was one of the first festivals of the season and the first one for plenty of people after a two-year hiatus, there…
10 Artists you can't miss at Mallorca Live Festival
Despite how globalized festivals tend to be, traveling to a festival in a different country is usually a good opportunity to discover new artists and as I mentioned a few days…
Get ready for Sziget festival
It couldn't be in 2020. It couldn't be in 2021 either, but on August 10th 2022, in less than two months from now we will finally be back on the best island in the world to celebrate…
8 Reasons to attend Mallorca Live Festival
I've just done the count and it's 999 days today since the last festival I was at. Exactly since 5 September 2019. Needless to say, I can't wait to see a bracelet on my wrist…
Roskilde's Circular Lab
I’ve lost count on the number of articles I’ve published about the Roskilde festival, but truth to be told it’s one of my favorite festivals, if not my best. And one big reason for…
What can we expect in 2022?
We started the year 2020 with the rumor of a virus that was collapsing China. Yet despite living in a globalized world, it seemed too far geographically for the rest of the world to be…
MOST WANTED: MUSIC (MW:M) 2021
After a challenging 18 months, the Most Wanted: Music event, Berlin’s music business conference returns to the city with a hybrid online-offline event where attendees…