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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Vicky Jessop

Sziget Festival review: scorching heat and red-hot music at this Budapest extravaganza

The scorching sun and 34-degree heat might have been punishing, but that didn’t put off the crowds at Sziget this weekend.

Now in its 30th year, the Budapest-based festival mainstay is still going strong, attracting an ever-improving line-up of the best musical names from around the world. And it delivered here too: across six days, around 450,000 people flocked to see Kylie Minogue, Stormzy, and Sam Smith (among many others) strut their stuff across 60 stages.

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