Sziget Festival

Back from one of the most amazing festivals ever. A few weeks ago I got offered a job to film and edit two reports of the Sziget Festival in Budapest. Little did I know how amazing it would be. The festival has been running for 15 years which explains the fantastic organisation on the picturesque little Obudai Island. That is where it get its name from as Sziget means island... Not only are there five music stages but a Hungarian village with rooster testicle stew ( how do they collect enough to cook a whole stew, I wonder) and Hungarian folklore dancing, a theatre area and a post office stall.



















My personal highlight was definitely Fatboy Slim, I think I must of lost 10 pounds dancing which I compensated with good Hungarian beer...

Another highlight was Faith No More. Mike Patton got so pissed off with his microphone not working that MIKE just threw his MIKE into the audience, concussive move... He created a new look decorating his beautiful head with red underwear (graciously donated by a member of the audience) and moved along the catwalk alley between the audience on top of a chunky Hungarian security man who didn´t know what hit him. Last but not least he took the shoelace from a converse shoe (yet again graciously donated by a member of the audience...) and ate it in a long and seemingly painful process, his sense of a good "choke". Then he spat it out again and threw it in the audience too. Makes you think a little bit what kind of a relationship he has to his audience...

















Last but not least the Donots rocked the MTV Headbangers Ball Rock Stage and got the Hungarian audience rocking huge. Ingo Donot spontaneously hosted our second little festival report, thanks again Ingo.
















So Sziget 2009 rocked and we will be back again next year for sure köszönöm 4 everything!!!!

Here are the two short reports:

http://www.hobnox.com/index.1525.de.html