In 49 days the Sziget Festival 2008 will start in Budapest. Every year several hundred thousand people come to Budapest to take part in this festival. You can live in tent at the island (Óbudai Island), or if you want more comfort you can stay in an apartment or hotel in Budapest somewhere.
The Sziget Festival 2008 starts 12th of August, and lasts until 18th of August. The price of the daily ticket is 32 Euro, a full festival non camping ticket is 120 Euro and with camping 150 Euro. These price are only valid if you buy the tickets in advance. Go to the webpage for more information.
Among the artists you can find: Danko Jones, Alanis Morisette, Che Sudaka, Carl Cox, Brisa Roché, Iron Maiden, Justice, Kraak & Smaak, R.E.M., Serj Tankian, Sex Pistols, Ziggi and more…
Other festivals in Hungary 2008:
Volt Festival
Balaton Sound
Sziget Festival 2008
If you’re interested in the detailed program, you can go deeper at Sziget.FM where you can also bookmark your favourite bands and watch youtube videos of them. Unfortunatelly it’s only Hungarian so far, but we plan to add English support in the following months. Definitely before Sziget starts 🙂
You can read of the Sziget 2009 at http://www.hungarybudapestguide.com/blog/2008/11/sziget-festival-2009.html