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Kispál és A Borz
Kispál és a Borz are a Hungarian alternative rock band founded in 1987 in Pécs by András Lovasi, András Kispál, Rezső Ózdi and Gábor Bräutigam. They disbanded on 9 August 2010 after a large-scale concert at the Sziget Festival. The band reformed in 2022. They are regarded as one of the most influential alternative bands in Hungary. History Kispál és a Borz were founded in 1987 by Gábor Bräutigam, Rezső Ózdi, András Kispál and András Lovasi. The band's name was originally supposed to be "Borz" ("Badger"), a name similar to the then-popular bands The Doors and Bros. However, Kispál complained that all of his past bands were named after animals and all of them failed, so the others decided to also highlight his name in the final version. Ózdi left the band in 1988. The band's first demo, ''Tökéletes helyettes'', was released in 1989. The band also started touring nationally the same year, although their first concert happened a year earlier. The band record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamárdi
Zamárdi is a town in Somogy County, Hungary. It is known for its beaches at Lake Balaton and for its music festivals during the summer (e.g. ''Strand Festival'', Balaton Sound etc.). The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region. Activities Balaton Sound since 2007, Website: https://balatonsound.com/en/. Location: Lake Balaton. Etymology There are several explanations of the origin of the name of Zamárdi. * According to one theory, the village was called before the Mongol invasion ''Kis Szent Mártir'' which later changed to Zamárdi. However, there is no proof for that. * The older part of the village is on a hill, so the residents brought water on the back of donkeys. Therefore, the village was called ''Szamárd'' after ''szamár'' () and ''-d'' suffix. * The most accepted theory states that the name derives from a person named ''Zamar'' or ''Somar''. He could have been the first owner of the village. History Before the arrival of the Hungarians at the turn of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival (, ) is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget ("Old Buda Island"), a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year. The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile student event in 1993 to become one of the prominent European rock festivals, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary, especially from Western Europe. It also has a dedicated "party train" service (with resident DJs) that transports festival-goers from all over Europe. The second event (1994), labelled ''Eurowoodstock'', was headlined by performers from the original Woodstock festival. By 1997, total attendance exceeded 250,000, and by 2001 reached 360,000. In 2018 that record was broken when 565,000 visitors attended the festival. Since the mid-2000s, Sziget Festival has been increasingly labelled as a European alterna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Alternative Rock Groups
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Baroque Pop
Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music. It emerged in the mid-1960s as artists pursued a majestic, orchestral sound and is identifiable for its appropriation of Baroque music, Baroque compositional styles (contrapuntal melodies and functional harmony patterns) and dramatic or melancholic gestures. Harpsichords figure prominently, while oboes, French horns, and string quartets are also common. Although harpsichords had been deployed for a number of pop hits since the 1940s, some record producers in the 1960s increasingly placed the instrument in the foreground of their arrangements. Inspired partly by the Beatles' song "In My Life" (1965), various groups were incorporating baroque and classical instrumentation by early 1966. The term "baroque rock" was coined in promotional material for the Left Banke, who used harpsichords and violins in their arrangements and whose 1966 song "Walk Away Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dollybirds
Dollybirds () is a 1997 Hungarian comedy musical film directed by Péter TÃmár. and written by Gyula Márton and Péter TÃmár. Synopsis In the August 1962, the Hungarian Young Communist League announces that the winner of the annual '' Ki mit tud?'' talent show will earn a trip to the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki; sensing a chance to defect communist Hungary, Attila decides to win the contest by putting a band together. With varying levels of support from the local residents, he assembles a ragtag band, and enters the contest. They reach the finals, but before they'd get a chance to perform on stage, an encounter with a stagehand reveals to them that the contest is fixed and that the winners have already been picked; the band sadly departs without ever going on stage. Cast * János Gálvölgyi – Uncle Simon * Sándor Almási – Attila * Anita Tóth Anita CsÃkné Tóth (born November 12, 1979) is a Hungarian sport shooter. Toth represented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Circus Of Budapest
The Capital Circus of Budapest () is a circus building located in Budapest, Hungary. It originally opened in 1889, although it has changed locations since then. Its current building opened in 1971 and is the only stone circus in Central Europe. It seats 1450 people, and features animal, clown, and artistic performing acts. The building is in Városliget city park, near by are the Budapest Zoo, the former Budapest Amusement park, Vajdahunyad Castle and the Széchenyi thermal bath. Since it is a stone circus, its operation is independent from weather, and therefore it is opened both in summer and winter. Recently Capital Circus also holds other events besides circus productions, like fashion shows, sport events, classical and pop concerts, folk dance performances as well as theatre and opera plays. History The original building of the Circus was opened on 27 June 1889 in Városliget by the German-Dutch circus director Ede Wulff. This building had the same parameters as the curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bros (British Band)
Bros () are an English band formed in 1986 in Camberley, Surrey. The band originally consisted of twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss, and their friend Craig Logan, who attended Collingwood School in Camberley. The band was managed by former Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins. They achieved chart success and a large teenage fanbase in 1988 with songs such as " When Will I Be Famous?" and " I Owe You Nothing". Early the following year, Logan quit the band and the Goss twins continued as a duo. After two more albums the band split up in 1992. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Bros has been certified for sales of 1.3 million albums and 750,000 singles in the UK. Bros are estimated to have sold 16 million records worldwide. In 2017, the Goss twins reunited to perform two dates as Bros at the O2 Arena in London. History Early years Luke Goss and Matt Goss (born 29 September 1968 in Lewisham, London) had settled in Camberley, Surrey, after their parents had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most influential and controversial rock acts of the 1960s, primarily due to Morrison's lyrics and voice, along with his erratic stage persona and legal issues. The group is widely regarded as an important figure of the counterculture of the 1960s, era's counterculture. The band took its name from the title of the English writer Aldous Huxley's book ''The Doors of Perception'', itself a reference to a quote by the English poet William Blake. After signing with Elektra Records in 1966, the Doors with Morrison recorded and released six studio albums in five years, some of which are generally considered among the greatest of all time, including their debut ''The Doors (album), The Doors'' (1967), ''Strange Days (The Doors album), Strange Days'' (1967), and ''L.A. Woman'' (1971). Dubbed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian People
Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common culture, language and history. They also have a notable presence in former parts of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Hungarian language belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, alongside the Khanty and Mansi languages. There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. About 2 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. In addition, significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina, and therefore constitute the Hungarian diaspora (). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
András Lovasi
András Lovasi (born 20 June 1967) is a Hungarian singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer of alternative rock group Kispál és a Borz from 1987 to 2010. Currently, he is the lead vocalist of . In 2008, he co-founded the annual music festival. In 2010, Lovasi received the Kossuth Prize, the most prestigious cultural award in Hungary. Early life Lovasi was born in Pécs. From 1984, he studied geography at the University of Pécs until 1987 when he was kicked out of the university. Career Lovasi first started playing music in 1980 in the bands Déjá vu and Piros Ló, with limited success. Having already played together with Gábor Bräutigam in these bands, he was then joined by András Kispál and Rezső Ózdi to form Kispál és a Borz in 1987. He released ten full-length studio albums with the band from 1991 to 2004. Kispál és a Borz officially disbanded in 2010. Lovasi released his first solo album, ''Bandi a hegyről'' in 2001. The album also featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
