- “Really? B My Lake Festival is the same Nagyon Balaton Festival” – We heard this question about the brand new summer festival from many of our friends in the past few weeks. They were more than surprised, so we bought a ticket for the ride, and now we will tell you all about the artists who will play music at the end of August under the umbrella of Nagyon Balaton Festival.
The 3-day long B. My Lake Festival between 18th and 20th August will be your first stop at Club Aliga Beach in Balatonvilágos. Baauer was one of the artists who started the trap music genre, and now he will show up here as one of the headliners. You could also remember his name for spreading Harlem Shake over the internet with viral videos where people were going crazy. His style mixes hip-hop's clicking sounds and sluggish tempo with dubstep's drops and electro house's strident tunes which could only result a serious dose of party-music. There's no stopping here with the hybrid dance-music genres: Mord Fustang and Zomboy will bring moombahton to Balatonvilágos. Lindstrom, the well-known Norwegian producer will launch the party people far away from Planet Earth with his krautrock space-disco. Tensnake the headliner of many major festivals will help him to do that with his nu-disco/house style. We recommend you to keep an eye on for dOP too, because the French new wave house group will appear at Club Aliga Beach, too.
To satisfy teenage girls' hopes and dreams. Fall Out Boy will hit Zamárdi and Strand Festival’s stage - for the first time in Hungary - to put on their pop-punk with a bit of emo at an arena rock show. The festival between 18th and 20th August will present MR2 Petőfi Radio's All-Star team full of popular Hungarian bands from Bermuda and Punnany Massif to Yonderboi. If you're done listening to the peculiar local language, the drum n bass party is guaranteed with Pendulum's DJ-set, or you can drop by Nouvelle Vague to hear some resurrected new-wave, punk rock, post-punk classics from the 70's and the 80's in light French chanson-style. If you thought the music of Depeche Mode, Billy Idol or Joy Division could only work in stadiums, you'll be surprised. Don't forget to bring sun lotion, though!
LGT will perform once again near Balaton after the MTV Ikon show. The band's name is always labelled with the three letters, but originally LGT stands for Locomotive Gran Turismo. They played a very important part in the Hungarian rock music-scene in the 1970's and 1980's. Nomen est omen: locomotives and music buses will take the audience to Alsóörs on 18th August. The festival's LGT DJs will be a brand new experience for even the biggest fans. With the catchphrase "Tabán at Balaton!" the organizers suggest that the festival will not only pay tribute to the music, but the era and its mood as well. Can the band offer anything new after their three sold-out Aréna concerts? We'll see.
Veszprémfolk will be a two-day world music festival in - surprisingly - Veszprém on 19th and 20th August. Bea Palya, the worldwide known Muzsikás and many others will put on a real Hungarian folk-show combined with street music.
When parodies were born after Leslie Mandoki’s German band and song Dschinghis Khan, no one thought he would make a glorious return to his birthplace as an internationally acclaimed producer, musician, and song-writer. And he didn't come alone: Man Doki Soulmates is a supergroup of legendary r'n'r oldboys from Ian Anderson to Jack Bruce and guitarist Al di Meola. Man Doki Soulmates will step on the stage of Siófoki Szabadtéri Színpad after his earlier visit to Palace of Arts in Budapest.
Mandoki and friend's performance will be at least as colourful as the music program of the ARTplacc Contemporary Art Festival in Tihany between 16th and 20th August. The music will be incredibly diverse, just like the festival itself: Qualtions, Volkova Sisters, Morningdeer and 40 Days will perform for those artistic souls, who find the retro- and the radio music too mainstream.
