Budapest! - Sziget Festival

Well dudes & dudettes,

One friday night in the D 'n' R (the old pub before it moved) sat me & Dan supping a fair few pints of the good stuff when i mentioned an 8 day music festival in Budapest, Hungary...on an island!!!!!

Along came August and, well, shit me sideways it was a fecking awesome place to be; 24 hour bars (all 48 of them on one island!) dirt cheap festival beer and it wasn't watered down, cheap food, Tesco tents!! absoultley every music type you can think of was there: : : :

• Indie
• Folk
• Gypsy
• Latin/Afro Caribbean
• METAL! ! ! !
• Ska
• Reggae
• Drum n Base
• Soul
• Blues
• Jazz
• Classical
• Emo
• Dance
• Trance
• Punk

you get the general idea.... - and there were big bands to match the music: : :

• Rasmus
• Cathedral
• Exploited
• Ministry (just happened to wander past when they were playing!)
• Cradle of Filth (people were moshing in sandles!! WTF!!! crazy fools)
  
• PRODIGY
• Iggy & the Stooges
• Glen Matlock
• Radiohead (they were too quiet & shit)
• Placebo
• Leningrad (russian! ska)
• Roger Sanchez (i think...)

They're just the ones i can remember (nothing to do with drinking too much....honest!)

On top of all that, hot women from all over the place (even Sheffield!) ...everywhere you looked!
It really was a fecking experience.

Can't forget to mention Matt the Aussie though (he's probably off watching the cricket in some exotic country some where.... we met him in Luton airport and as he was a veteran of festivals and the like he showed the places to be for the best partying. Pretty much anywhere on the island was good for it so long as there was a bar really.

Anyhoo some pics of the festival c/o Matt the Aussie & the Festival Photographers.

Iggy & the Stooges

The VIP bar
(that's Matt the Aussie in the top left corner)

The Prodigy crowd for the Comms Tower
(the really small union flag on the balcony is us!

OK so I may have drank a
tad too much by the 8th day...

There was, of course, some antics aswell:::

• Really pissing people (inc. Security Guards) off ambushing them with water pistols (filled with water/beer. Was even funnier when it was the Security Guards borrowing our pistols to attack their mates....
• Telling the food serving lady I wanted 3 rat-dogs.... and getting them for free!
• Causing several ££ of damage to tents walking back to my own in a "straight" line
• Waking Sheffield Uni students up at 4.30am just cus they asked us not to!
• Attacking a TV camera cus the camera man started to hit me to get out of his shot.
• Invading a TV studio mid broadcast....
• Setting fire to a stereo cus we couldn't be arsed to bring it home (see video)
• Calling out "which dirty bastard's just farted cus it stinks" very loudly on the plane home
  
  
  
  
  

A few months later, we were a couple of hundred pounds lighter in our wallets sat back in the

D 'n' R (the new one this time) drinking Budvar.

Roll on next summer!


Laters,