Aerosmith, Puskás Aréna, July 10, 2022
Band lived on the edge, when they weren’t falling off
Aerosmith is one of those rock bands whose name rarely appears without the word “legendary” alongside it – that’s what happens when you were formed half a century ago, have “sold 150-million albums” (a nice round number that, but who counted?), became institutionalised in ...
First Hungarian film in competition at Sundance
Szelid (Gentle), a film by Laszlo Csuja and Anna Nemes, is the first Hungarian film ever to be selected for competition at the Sundance Film Festival, the National Film Institute (NFI) said on Friday.
Arctic Monkeys, Dua Lipa, Kings of Leon for return of Sziget Festival
Sheffield quartet Arctic Monkeys, English singer-songwriter and model Dua Lipa and Nashville brothers The Kings of Leon are the biggest names announced so far for the return of Budapest’s Sziget Festival from its two-year, coronavirus-enforced hiatus next August 10-15.
Ennio Morricone’s 'The Official Concert Celebration' at Budapest Aréna
Paying homage to a music maestro
Shortly before his death on July 6, 2020 aged 91, the great film soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone finished curating the blueprint for a new concert production of his music that would succeed him. “The Official Concert Celebration” will reach the Papp László Sports Aréna ...
The big Kiss-off, until next time
Kiss may be in the 100-million-records-sold league but I’m sorry to report that not a single one has ever dropped onto my turntable. Rightly or wrongly, this is due to my aversion to ridiculous cartoonish exploiters who dress up their mediocre music behind silly ...
Ed Sheeran to perform at MTV EMA Budapest gala
British pop star Ed Sheeran will be among the group of artists including Imagine Dragons, Yungblud, Griff and Girl in Red to appear on stage at the 2021 MTV Europe Music Awards gala in Budapest's Papp Laszlo Sports Arena on November 14, organisers said ...
Waxworks museum will have Hungarian section
Good, bad, ugly and pretty at Madame Tussauds Budapest
The 25 Madame Tussauds worldwide will become 26 when a new branch of the waxworks museum opens near Vörösmarty tér in downtown Budapest in early 2022.
International hunting show, related events attract over one million
The "One with Nature" World Hunting and Nature Exhibition and related programmes have by now been attended by over one million people, deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen told a press conference on Thursday.
They passed the audition but the demise was fraught
Putting the fab back in the Fab Four
Beatles fans have long accepted the standard history that the group’s death throes in 1969-70 were a gloomy affair, as seen in the bickering and boredom of the recording sessions documented in the “Let It Be” film and the “cardboard epitaph” (as one reviewer ...
National Film Institute nominates Post Mortem for Oscar
Hungary is nominating Post Mortem, a film by Peter Bergendy, for the 2022 Academy Awards for best International Feature Film, the National Film Institute (NFI) said on Wednesday.
