Cuervo Promotions@ The Sziget Festival, 2012

This August Cuervo Promotions will be going to one of the biggest and fastest-growing summer music festivals in Europe, The Sziget Festival.

Flogging Molly : Sziget/Mark Somey 2011

The Sziget Festival started as a relatively small student event and has grown every year since becoming one of the five best European Festivals of 2011. This year is the 20^th edition of the festival and it will play host to more than 1000 performances. Taking place in Budapest, Hungary, this unique setting is convenient for visitors as it is set on the island, Óbudai-sziget ("Old Buda Island"), on the Danube river close to the center of the city. 

Cuervo Promotions will be filming during the week-long festival. We will be covering the event in collaboration with SM Digital for promotion in Spain and Portugal. We will be producing a number of video-journals, interviews and vlogs for several Spanish media companies through Spanish Sziget Promoters.

We are really looking forward to filming the experiences of the festival-goers as it’s the biggest event we’ve covered to date. It should be a fun but an intense filming schedule as we will be heading out into the crowds every day to capture as many of the festival’s activities as possible. The videos will be released daily throughout the festival on social networks along with reviews, blogs and photos of the daily events and happenings.

The 108 hectar (266 acres) island, normally a mid-river park and retreat for the cities population, gets completely transformed each year to hold the festivals 400,000+ visitors. However, Sziget is an environmentally-friendly festival and oganisers strive to minimise the impact of the festival on the environment. For example, this year there will be a Green InfoPoint where you can exchange trash for other things and find out more about the Sziget Environmental Program.  

Anti Flag : Sziget Press Photo

The festival attracts performers, groups and musical acts from all over the world and boasts one of the most eclectic mixes of genres and musical styles of any festival in Europe. This year’s lineup includes big names such as The Killers, The Stone Roses, Placebo, Anti Flag, The Pogues and Molotov, as well as many more and varied bands from many different genres for people to discover.  

Not only can visitors enjoy whichever style of music they prefer, there is also a plethora of non-musical and cultural activities to keep visitors entertained over the week-long event. This year the extra-curricula activities include "The Playhouse" (where you can relax and play boardgames), old-fashioned photography, pottery-making and a "Marriage Tent" to keep festival-goers entertained and maybe even a ring on their finger by the time the festival is over! In fact, although music is the excuse for such a huge party, it is probably quite possible to thoroughly enjoy the festival without even watching any groups perform! 


We hope to catch some of these moments on video. We'll also be posting a few more blogs here with festival news in the run up to Sziget 2012! 

For more information about The Sziget Festival check out their blog.