Best Songs of 2013

Though this will always be mostly a photo blog, I feel totally and absolutely compelled to write my totally and absolutely subjective best songs of 2013 list, with the shallow excuse that I did actually shoot some of these bands in 2013 and hope to shoot some others in 2014 (aka Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys to Sziget!). So here it goes, in no particular order:

The National- I Should Live in Salt

Arcade Fire-Reflektor

Arctic Monkeys- I Wanna Be Yours

Depeche Mode- Soothe My Soul     

Queens of the Stone Age- Smooth Sailing    

Editors- Formaldehyde          

Foals- Inhaler      

Lorde-Tennis Court

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Jubilee Street

 London Grammar- Wasting My Young Years

                                   

                    

                                           

           

                                      

                                               

                                  

                          

Merry Christmas!

Bit of mixed bunch of stuff, wishing everyone Crăciun Fericit! Boldog Karácsonyt! Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël Buon Natale! Hyvää joulua! Frohe Weihnachten! Feliz Navidad! God Jul! Срећан Божић! Bon Nadal!

Christmas on Andrássy

Legends of the Fog

So it Begins

First trip to the Christmas market this year, with THE cheesiest feelgood Christmas song of them all.

Into the Fog

The Morning Chill is Back

Throwback Thursday: Kazinczy Carrot of Wisdom

It was during last summer that I noticed someone had been working hard on good old Kazinczy street, decorating the lamp posts and signs with these stickers. Some of them are still there, bit in tatters though and some similar stickers showed up in other areas too, but this is the (almost) complete inventory of the "carrot of wisdom" in its prime.

Budapest 140

Buda and Pest were united on the 17th of November, 1873

 Andrássy út

                                                      Danube during the flood

 Szabadság tér in summer

Jánoshegy in winter

                                                                Oktogon metro stop

                                                                  Nyugati station

Teréz körút 

Paulay Ede street

Paulay Ede street

       Skating rink in Városliget

  Gellért Hill

            Keleti Station 

Eiffel Square

Dob utca

Belgian Delights and Hungarian Humour

Ajax-Felcsut 1:8, oh no, the other way around. In case you google the Felcsut football team and can't find it, don't be surprised :)

Mosselen Restaurant Budapest

Throwback Thursday: Summer Sounds in (almost) Winter

Well winter has never been my cup of tea, so it's always great to remember summer festivals- and Balaton Sound is sort of the summeriest of them all, the right place and time for Paul Kalkbrenner's epic Sky and Sand. How would that sound in winter though? And generally, a festival in winter? That's one thing to find out, and well, now I can, for Sziget has a wintry sister, the aptly named Fridge ( http://www.sziget.hu/fridge/). Sky and snow, why not :)