Sziget festival is awesome
I went for the first time in 2005 aged 17 with my best mate (also went 2006 and 2008). This was our first real trip to somewhere where we would be completely free.

Got there on "day 0" (where there is only ever one opening act) and set up our tent next to some friendly german people. As you can imagine, we got ratted. Lots of really good music from the continent: Ska-p, louise attack, Matmatah, the hives, dEUS... Not many english acts, although Radiohead and The Prodigy came too. Good Charlotte were pathetic but fun to take the piss out of.

We mostly got really, really drunk and didn't sleep, at shit food and got a sunburn. After the festival ended, we went to a family friend and slept for about 20 hours straight. A week of festival is pretty hard on you, and we were smoking about two packs a day. What I lvoe about the festival so much is meeting strangers at a concert or just chilling out in the night, singing with them, and then never meeting again (or, as happened once when they do see you and say hello, not even remembering who they are or ever meeting them).
Sadly, it's kinda gotten invaded by the French now. They're just everywhere and many act like complete twats.

I'll always remember vomiting and pissing into a bush at the same time, and the girl who ran into the forest to have a piss, fell over and realised she wasn't the only one who hadn't been able to wait for a space to open in the portaloo... Poor thing!
( morrybyte made a subtle namechange at, Fri 5 Jun 2009, 13:23, 1 reply)

That was my first sziget too
dUES were amazing. Beatsteaks also were ace. Good times.
(Pat_Gash, Fri 5 Jun 2009, 15:37, closed)