Rammstein is most probably the most successful German band outside Germany next to Tokio Hotel and Scooter which is still performing today and now they come for a concert to Budapest again. Rammstein has been in Budapest I think 2007 the last time and even if you don’t like their music you have to admit that their live performance is a blast. I have seen Rammstein live last time they where here and the stage was full of fire, laser, special effects and other show elemets which you won’t see in any other concert.

Last time the concert was 100% sold out after a very short time and it will be the same in 2010 because their seems to be a big Rammstein Fan base here in Hungary and of course in the countries around like Croatia, Slovakia, the Ukraine or Rumania. So be sure to get your ticket as soon as possible.

Rammstein is in music business since 15 years now and they have performed all over the world in the biggest stadiums around the globe. With more than 10 million sold albums you can call them superstars. Their latest album “Liebe ist für alle da” is placed on the German Index by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons which makes it actually illeagal to buy in Germany, if you get it because the album is banned from the stores.

So Rammstein is a controversial band which makes them even more attractive than being a well-behaved Rock band from next door. I urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible if you want to see Rammstein in Budapest otherwise you will have to buy them illeagally for a very high price.

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Metallica Budapest

Metallica, for sure one of the most legendary Heavy Metal bands in the world is coming to Budapest on May 5th 2010 for a concert… or rather a rock show. Be prepared, get your tickets soon or you will sit outside Puskas Ferenc Stadium listening to them.

Metallica is in music business since ages and since than produced tons of awesome albums like “Kill em all” od “…And Justice for All”, released world hits like”Nothing Else matters”, “One” or “Seek & Destroy” and gave thousands of concerts all around the world rocking millions of fans and the worlds biggest stadiums. With more than 50 million CDs sold only in the US and tons of awards Metallica is for sure one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world and yes they are still performing. So in 2010 Metallica in Budapest will take place in Puskas Ferenc Stadium which will host approximately 50.000 people and I bet it will be sold out so you should get your ticket today to not miss the show!

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The website of the Invisible Exhibition describes the experience as following

Imagine that all the lights go out…

The Invisible Exhibition Budapest is a unique interactive journey to an invisible world, where you experience finding your way only by touch and by following sounds and smells.

You will experience for example what it is like to go into the kitchen if you are blind. Just imagine you can’t see but have to find plates and pots, you will cook and find the right spices. Can you differentiate between Oregano and other herbs just by smelling? Well I can tell you it is not as easy as it sounds like.
The exhibition should be an eye opener to make people who can see feel what blind people feel and which tasks in their daily lives they are confronted with.

I really recommend to go there since this is an experience that you wil never forget and it will in some way change your view of the world. Just ask yourself sometimes who you would have managed a situation without seeing anything. Well that exactly is what you will experience in the invisible exhibition in Budapest.

The organizer also offers the chance to have a “invisible dinner” which basically is eating in the dark and, as I have heart, it must be a great experience because you taste the flavours even more and in the same time you have to get along with the fact that you don’t see what you are eating.

So as I said I recommend to check out the Invisible Exhibition in Budapest as long as it is possible (December 2009). You can find more information on the website of the invisible exhibition and of course directly in the E-Klub at Népliget. The opening hours are on weekdays 12.00 – 20.00 and on weekends 10.00 – 20.00. The prices for an adult are 1.490 HUF (1.750 on weekends), students and seniors for 1.200 HUF (1.500 on weekends) and of course you can get group tickets. A dinner is 6.490 HUF.

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Eros Ramazotti, the most loved singer from Italy comes to Budapest on 22nd of October 2009. Ramazotti (born in 1963 in Cinecitta, Italy) started his career as a teenager when he moved to Mailnd. Specially in Italy, Germany, Mexico and Argentina Eros Ramazotti has the status of a super star. Every Album he makes is released in spanish and italian. So far Eros Ramazotti relesed 13 italian albums and 13 spanish albums also in 2001 and 2004 he released DVD’s.

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It is time for the first European Poker Tour event in Budapest. From Oktober 28th till November 1st the Sofitel Hotel in Budapest (book a room now) will host the Pokerstars.com sponsored European Poker Tour (EPT) stop in Budapest. To attend the tournament in Sofitel you have to qualitfy online by playing EPT satellites online and win your seat for as little as 2,22$. The online games run until mid October. If you win a place you will sleep in a luxury hotel, get paid the buy in of 4.350€ plus 100$ to spend.

For a direct buy in please visit the information page of Pokerstars.net. This is a once in a lifetime chance to attend the most exiting Poker tournament in the world sponsored by Pokerstars.com. 

Where?
Las Vegas Casino
Sofitel Hotel
Roosevelt ter 2
1051 BUDAPEST
Tel: +36 1 483 2110
Opening hours: 24 hours
Dress code: Casual
Minimum age: 18

Entrance requirements: Players must register at the Las Vegas casino on arrival to receive a membership card which can then be used to enter the tournament area.

(Sunday, 19 April 2009) Budapest, Hungary 

Critical Mass Budapest is once again organising a large scale (30,000+ participants!) “Earth Day” bicycle demonstration to promote non-polluting means of transportation and raise environmental awareness. 

DATE: Sunday, 19 April 2009
TIME: 4:30 PM
DURATION: The event will conclude with the raising of bicycles approximately at 6:30 PM.
Starting Point: Deák tér, 5th District
End Point: City Park – Királydomb (near Hero’s Square)

Route Map: Károly körút (small park near Deák square) – Astoria – Erzsébet híd (Erzsébet Bridge) – Attila út – Alagút (Tunnel: just now, without air pollution!) – Lánchíd (Chain Bridge) – Akadémia utca – Kossuth tér – Alkotmány utca – Bajcsy Zs. út – Andrássy út – Olof Palme sétány – Városliget Király-domb (City Park – near Hero’s Square).

• Feel free to come. Because it’s fun,
• it’s safe (a legal and peaceful demonstration, route closed to traffic by the police)
• it’s the largest CM Ride in the world!

General info about previous CM Bike Rides here.

Every year when it is time for christmas on big squares open up christmas markets. Te flair of a christmas market in Budapest is not as good as in e.g. Germany but it is nice to go there, have a hot wine, something to eat and just enjoy the atmosphere around. You also can do some smaller christmas shopping on most of the markets. Mainly the christmas market is used to get a hot wine, meet with friends and have fun. Here are some good christmas markets in Budapest. 

Christmas market Vörösmaty tér

The Vörösmaty tér is in the center of Budapest, in the middle of the touristic area on the end of Vaci utca. Usually you don’t see many Hungarians in Vaci utca as it is mainly made for tourists but in the christmas time Vörösmaty tér hosts the nicest and I think biggest christmas market in Budapest. Next to the typical hot wine and sausages you find nice little shops with all kind of christmas related things. I will be there.

Jokai tér christmas market

A small but nice christmas market on the opposite site of Liszt Ferenc tér. This christmas market closes quiet early and the single places for hot wine or food are not as nice as for example on Vörösmaty tér. Nevertheless if you are around there have a look or go to the opposite site on the Liszt Ferenc tér christmas market.

Liszt Ferenc tér christmas market

Usually on Liszt Ferenc tér you find outside a lot of chairs and tables from the restaurants and bars but in the winter time it is obviously too cold to sit outside. So the place is used for the christmas market. I have never been really there, just walked across but it looked to me like a salespoint for touristic stuff like typical Hungarian blankets and so on. 

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This show is amazing! If you are in Budapest during the time of the Red Bull Air Race you have to watch it. Watch the video and you will see what happens at the Red Bull Air Race in Budapest. The event brings many people to the track which used to be the city or the danube highway. On that day this part of the city is closed for cars and loads of people joining this event. The Red Bull Air Race is an amzing show with the highlight of planes flying under the chain bridge.

You should not miss the Red Bull Air Race 2008 in Budapest on August 19th and 20th.

For more information on the Red Bull Air Race check out the official website

The Budapest Parade is the 3rd biggest Rave/Techno event in the world. With more than 500.000 visitors the parade is directly behind the Street Parade in Zürich with 650.000 visitors and of course behind the Loveparade in Berlin with around one million visitors.
By now there are more than 50 trucks playing music sponsored by local clubs, radio stations or big national names like mobile operators, energy drink producers and so on. 

The organizers of the Budapest Parade are the same like the organizers of the European biggest rock event the Sziget Festival
The Budapest Parade 2008 takes place in August as every year and will be around hero squere. 

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The Sziget festival is the biggest Rock festival in Europe concerning the number of visitors. The reason for that is that the Sziget festival lasts a complete week and not like many other festivals just a long weekend. The spatiality about the Sziget festival is that it is on an island (Sziget = Island). The island is called Óbudai Sziget and is the biggest island in Budapest. It is bigger than 70 football pitches and is in the northern part of Budapest.

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Sziget Festival 2010 Lineup

Here is a simple list of all bands and artists confirmed so far for Sziget Festival 2010:

Billy Talent
Danko Jones
Death Valley Screamers
Faithless
Gentleman and the Evolution
Gwar
Iron Maiden
K.I.Z.
Kasabian
Lyapis Trubestkoy
Madness
Muse
Papa Roach
Public Image Ltd.
Rada
Ska-P
Subsonica
The Cribs
The Hives
The Specials
The Toy Dolls
Thirty Seconds To Mars
Young Punx
08001
Amparo Sanchez
Cankisou
Csík zenekar és vendégei
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Dirtmusic és Tamikrest
Jaune Toujours
Kries
Los De Abajo
Mahala Rai Banda
Oi-Va-Voi
Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® és Omara Portuondo
Parno Graszt
Rotfront
Rupa & the April Fishes
Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar
Söndörgő + Ferus Mustafov
Tamikrest & Dirtmusic
Tony Allen
Rock-Metál Színpad
Children Of Bodom
Drums are for Parades
Enter Shikari
Fear Factory
Ill Niño
Kamelot
Monster Magnetí
Overdrive
Paradise Lost
Skindred
The 69 Eyes
The Fear Factory
Bad Religion
Black Box Revelation
Charlie Winston
C-Mon & Kypsky
Ez3kiel
Foreign Beggars
Girls in Hawaii
Gorillaz Sound System
Inspector Cluzo
Kees van Hondt
Major Lazer
Nina Hagen
Peaches
Skip The Use
The Picturebook
Vive la Féte
Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Yeasayer
zZz
Andy Moor
Boyz Noize & Erol Alkan
Breakestra feat. Cali2na
Calvin Harris
Deadmau5
DJ Shadow
Drumcode Night: Adam Beyer & Joel Mull & Alan Fitzpatrick
Gotan Project
Infected Mushroom
Sander van Doorn
Simian Mobile Disco
30Y
Barabás Lőrinc Eklektric
Brains
Heaven Street Seven
Irie Maffia
Kiscsillag
Kistehén
Pannonia All-Stars Ska Orchestra
Péterfy Bori
Quimby
The Carbonfools
Vad Fruttik
3D Disco (UK)
Aeroplane (B)
Baskerville (NL)
dBridge, Instra:mental, Sp:mc (UK)
Flore feat. Rodney P (F-UK)
HRDVSION (D)
The Smokeeaters (UK)
Flat Earth Society
Renata Rosa
Chapelier Fou
La Mal Cioffée
Hjaltalin
An Pierlé & White Velvet
Zita Swoon & Rosas
Yasmin Levy
Rona Hartner
Klezmofobia
Easy Star Allstars

The Dubians
Kispál és a Borz – last concert

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11th – 17th August 2010

What I like about Sziget Festival is that it is not only about music but you can discover so many things in different booths. People, companies or whatever offer all kinds of activities for those who want to relax from the music and do something else which is especially interesting for those who are staying on the island. The island offers everything you need from restaurants, cash machines, supermarket and everything else you could need in this week. But many people take some time and go to the city or just off the island to relax, see Budapest, shop important things and what so ever.

For further information please visit the Sziget Festival homepage.