Sziget Festival.

Every story TREACLE has published from Sziget Festival, and every artist Coda Photos has shot there.

Stories

Wild Wild Women: "If the hunger dies, you die"

India's first all-female hip-hop collective spent this summer on their most extensive European run yet, ending at Sziget. MC Mahila, one of the five, on how it started at a cypher in Mumbai, what it cost to get there, and why nobody in the group writes anybody else's verse.

Voices · 11 Sept 2026

From Tunis to Sziget: "our sound belongs on those big international stages"

Illbucks won a place on a European festival stage, brought his band from Tunis to Budapest, and played Sziget with them behind him. The Tunisian rapper, singer and producer on the set, the crowd and what he was watching when he was not on stage.

Voices · 18 Aug 2026

Sziget 2026, Day -1 and Day 0: the year the festival got itself back

For the first time since 2017, Sziget belongs to the people who built it. You can hear it in what they programmed before the festival even opened.

Field Notes · 11 Aug 2026

Ten European festivals worth your August, and where you can still get in

August is the heaviest month in the European festival calendar. Ten of the best, in date order, with what is still on sale as of this week.

Field Notes · 4 Aug 2026

Sziget for first-timers: the island festival, explained

Five days on an island in the middle of Budapest, running 11 to 15 August. What Sziget actually is, and what to know before your first one.

Field Notes · 23 Jul 2026

Kneecap: who they are, and how a Belfast trio became music's most argued-about band

We shot the Belfast rap trio at Roskilde in 2024. A year on, a Hungary ban and a UK terror charge made them one of music's biggest flashpoints. The story, kept to the facts.

Voices · 25 Jun 2026

Ten Queer Artists, one Pride Month

Ten queer artists we've photographed, from Chappell Roan to Peaches and Gossip: our Pride Month 2026 list, with the songs and quotes that say it best.

The Wire · 10 Jun 2026