Sziget Festival: Florence and the Machine and Anna in the line up
Rock, alternative pop, electronic, indie and clubbing contaminations: the Sziget Festival confirms its hybrid nature and with the first names announced for the 2026 edition it remains faithful to the word given by the organizer Tamás Kádár, who a few weeks ago in this interview with Rockol said he wanted to set up a festival “loved by everyone”. No one will be dissatisfied, one might actually say. The list of the first names in the cast of the festival, scheduled in Budapest from 11 to 15 August 2026, sees the presence of two bands considered iconic of the alternative rock of the last twenty years such as Florence and the Machine and Twenty One Pilots, of a protagonist of the new wave indie rock such as Sombr (now very launched: his “Back to friends” on Spotify has exceeded a billion total streams since its release), of a pop superstar such as Lewis Capaldi.
“This is just the beginning: Sziget is much more than just music. It is a true universe of experiences waiting to be discovered. More acts, programs and headliners will be revealed very soon,” comments Tamás Kádár. With Florence and the Machine, Twenty One Pilots, Lewis Capaldi and Sombr there will also be Anna (not to be confused with Anna Pepe, even if on the Sziget website the reference playlist refers to the Spotify one with the hits of the “Real baddie” of Italian rap: the Anna in question is the Brazilian DJ Ana Miranda), Underworld, Tash Sultana, Biffy Clyro, Dijon, bbno$, Dom Dolla. And then Alt Blk Era, Antony Szmierek, Ashnikko (the American rapper who recently collaborated with Victoria De Angelis of Maneskin on her solo single “Daddy”), the Croatian Baby Lasagna (seen last year at the Eurovision Song Contest), Bad Nerves, BIIA, Brooke Combe, Cassia, Charlotte Cardin, DE’WAYNE, Elefánt, Giant Rooks, Indira Paganotto, Jazzy, Joris Voorn, Karen Dió, Kim Dracula, Lambrini Girls, Makrohang, Oskar Med K, Pan-Pot, Paris Paloma, Sim0ne, Sisi, Ski Aggu, TOMORA and Zimmer 90.
Early Bird tickets are available for a few more days, the next price increase is scheduled for December 16th at 8pm. The Festival Pass also includes basic camping and can be purchased on the official festival website.
Until a few weeks ago, the 2026 edition of the Sziget Festival was anything but predictable. Very few people beyond the Hungarian borders were aware that one of the most famous musical events in Europe, which in thirty-two years has attracted 11 million spectators from all over the world to the island of Obuda, a few kilometers from the center of Budapest, was on the edge of the precipice. Yet, last August, the official closing statement of the 2025 edition of the festival spoke of “a triumph” sealed by 416 thousand paying people and over a thousand performances: not exactly the representation of a festival in pain, which the now former organizers, Superstruct Entertainment, had decided to cancel, before its co-founders saved it.
