Joe's Big Toe » Spotlight on: Sziget 2010

Infected Mushroom — I started when I was about 15 at my late grandmother’s house

Joe Innes — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:04:44 +0000

With less than two weeks to go until the start of the festival, we bring you this week’s Spotlight On: Sziget 2010, focussing on the Israeli psychedelic trance group, Infected Mushroom. The band started out with only two members, Erez Eisen (I.Zen) and Amit Dudevani (Dudev) in 1998 in northern Israel. Since then, they have [...]

So what is this Sziget thing anyway?

Joe Innes — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:00:53 +0000

Click here to hear some of the main reasons we’re excited about Sziget — a first for JBT — an article with a soundtrack! Sziget is a music festival held annually in Budapest, Hungary. Sziget literally means island (and is pronounce “see-get”), and it’s called that because it’s held on an island in the middle [...]

Faithless — “You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision”

Joe Innes — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:19:04 +0000

This week’s Spotlight on: Sziget will be focussing on the massive UK dance act, Faithless. Formed in 1995 by Sister Bliss, she recruited Maxi Jazz, Jamie Catto and Rollo Armstrong to join her. The foursome released Salva Mea later on that year. They have released six albums of original material, Reverence, Sunday 8PM, Outrospective, No [...]

Ska-P — “We’ll play for a hundred punks and anarchists who don’t need convincing of anything”

Joe Innes — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:00:37 +0000

Ska-P hail from Vallecas (Madrid), Spain, and were active from 1994 until 2005. In 2005 the band took a break to work on side projects, but reunited in 2008, and released their sixth album in October that year. The name of the band comes from, obviously, ska music, but also is a play on the [...]

Skindred — “Rock and roll is about fucking in the back of a car”

Joe Innes — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:12:30 +0000

Welcome to the first part of our Spotlight On: Sziget 2010 series, and today, we’ll be introducing the band Skindred. Skindred are a British band hailing from Newport in Wales. They’ve been around since 1998, after the break-up of Dub War, the vocalist (Benji Webb)‘s previous band. Webb blames Dub War’s break up on pressure [...]