Hungarians ahoy!

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Anyway, today I've got something completely different. This summer I went to the Sziget festival. As well as having a complete wail of a time with one of my bestest friends over there, there were one or two bands (one week, 8 stages, full from 6 - at least midnight), some good, and some pretty awful to say the least, notably Korn - but maybe they aren't that good anyway.

Louise Attaque were there, so I guess I should have mentioned it before, but they were very good. Maybe it was the 5,000-strong French contingent making it more enjoyable to sing old classics, it was wierd. For Lea, everyone in the crowd was putting their arms around their neighbours. The fat bloke I was next to ended up being a bit of a nutter, but that's part of the fun. In fact, I'd say that's the fun. Two Hungarians we met on "Day 0" (you can start camping before the festival actually starts) suggested we go see Quimby and Kispál és a Borz, who are two relatively popular bands and were going to be playing. We figured we would, and they're actually quite good. I reckon the only criticism I've got is that Hungarians seem to have something about singing with huskey voices.

Anyway, I preferred Quimby, they seemed a bit more into their act, with Kispal's performance being far below what I would later hear on the album, although they did strike me as pretty darned good on the day as well.

Quimby - Halleluja (no relation to the Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen song, or whoever it is who wrote that song. The amount of versions of it boggle the mind!)
Kispál és a Borz - ...Ilyesmi

See all 17 of you tomorrow, most probably!