Past events

The Hungarian voices of Tom Waits - tango, chansons, love and passion, kicking rock and crazy power by one of Hungary's definitively best.

The violin genious of Félix Lajkó featiring his outrageous band, along with a uniquely strange and not by any chance world known Belgian band that will take all onto a fantastic dreamlike journey.

Combining the elements of the masters such as Yes, King Crimson and the Beatles, prog-rock progenitors Spock's Beard has been highly regarded by the press and fans both here and abroad for their infectious melodies and first rate musicianship.

Melt Banana, Japan's legendary noise-rock formation that had worked with Mike Patton too, a metal attack by the Human Errior and the splendid horror-energy by Dj Case will make this night to remember of never seen power and bursting energy.

Elevate's professed aim is to combine political discourse with art and music within a special framework. The two areas of politics/education and art/music will be equally emphasized to achieve a mutual revaluation.

Slam Performance: Bob Holman (USA) & Samantha Thornhill (Trinidad) - Slam competition participants: Móki (Ludditák), Tita (Ludditák), Saiid (Akkezdet), Újonc (Akkezdet), Id (Slam Poetry Budapest), IndianA (SBP), Zeek, Ponza, B-Best, Daniel Brownwood and Ágnes Bárdos Deák. Accompained by: Viktor Sági - guitar, Péter Sabák - bass guitar, Levente Boros - drums. Projection, visuals by Kiégő Izzók, moderated by: Busa in Hungarian and Gábor Gyukics in English.

Pop, rock, underground with strong girls smashing with powerful songs so often featured on the radios this time in full size kicking live sound on a double album-release gig featuring four great bands.

The best singer of the Hungarian funk in the 70-ies strikes again with stunning power and beauty supported by the best young jazz musicians on the Budapest scene present their first album. Their support act will be a smoky rockabilly joyrider and Dorotea.

Metal directly from Ulan Bator! The first ever heavy metal, hard rock, rock'n'roll band from Mongolia is still uniquely powerful, kicking and stunning in spite of the fact, that till today they have become winners of numerous prizes and members of academies. Entrance free!

The Black Dog was formerly the trio of Ken Downie, Ed Handley, and Andy Turner, Ed and Andy left to pursue their Plaid project, Ken continued with several different line ups of Black Dog before choosing to work with Martin and Richard Dust from Dust Science Recordings after a long break from the music scene.

Summer season closing party on the roffterrace with huge and massive collective fun featuring one of the definitely most influential and leading djs of our time, Damian Lazarus and his fellow mates from the Hungarian scene.

In Levon Mlakhasyan's play and the music of the Malkhas Jazz Band lyric improvisations mingle with stunning solos, folk elements with blues notes, unique originality with the structures of jazz on the night dedicated to the Armenian independence.

The freshest, coolest, blondest, richest, thickest, best, latest, most charming, most intriguing and most lunatic drum'n'bass one can wish for.

In the dynamic music of the Brains drum & bass, breakbeat, ragga, dancehall, and rock elements melt together into a powerful modern sound that truly smashes.

Melancholic dance music dedicated to a funny cow and the depths of the East-European soul. Charming beats, heartbreaking pub songs, and so on, and so on...

Wine dinner featuring excellent wines from the South-West region of Hungary along with great Hungarian specialities that go along with them in the greatest harmony. Sic course dinner with six wines to taste costs 10000 HUF.

ATTENTION! DUE TO THE BAD WEATHER, WE'RE DOING THIS SHOW IN THE CONCERT HALL! Jonny Rotten's kids with merry punk and powerful rock'n'roll that come on this night in the form of a whole bunch of kicking young bands.

Psychedelic western swing with trumpets, accordions, wild drums and weird bass, that sounds if they were coming from Detroit, with their uniquely mystic rock'n'roll: the only band to play such lunatic powerful music today in Hungary is Psycho Mutants.

The elegance, joy and beauty of three uniquely charismatic divas: Hanna Hukkelberg from Noway burns the hearts with her impersonal, straight touch featuring healing pop songs of never seen charm,Irmie Vesselsky brings smoky chansons in pure acoustic sense like brought from the depths of the best jazz club ever in an unknown port, while Eszter Takáts with her rocky attitude gives a strong and kicking shade to the beautiful melancholy of this night.

Hungarian chansons from the beginning of the XXth century full of humour, passion, love and melancholy perfromed by the most famous Hungarian singers and Róbert Farkas' excellent gipsy band.

All tickets for the 9PM show are sold out, there are available more for the 1AM show. Follow this link to purchase.

Three minimal-tech-click-house maniacs, Isu from Minimalheadz plus Crimson and Chrom from the IKZ collective combined their powers and established their clubseries Lick the Click!, which became a massive bastion of the Hungarian clubscene since. Profligate eclecticism and neurotic romantica are the attributes of Lick the Click!, where ears, legs, brain waves and facial muscles find their stimulation. It’s guaranteed! The fourth dj's set will be a mere present, joker, ultimate surprise, because dj Dork will kick your ass.

Though 9 pm gig is sold out, there are avalable tickets for the 1 AM gig. Follow this link to purchase.

Crazy ballads and sweet pain, melancholic moods and stunning power in the alternative bar rock by Bori Rutkai and her band.

Progressive house and other experimental electronics by the very new, but already popular Hairy-band. This night will feature an exceptionally merry pumping on the terrace.

Planet MU label presents the Monsters of MU, which is is in the sense of buddhist tradition "the emptyness filled with essence" featuring the most progressive and kicking warriors and entertainers of new electric sound featuring all from dubstep, through jungle and mashcore to breakcore and beyond.

Acrobatic rock'n'roll that really kicks by one of the most wanted and thrilling bands on the Budapest scene. Check out why!

Two funny, powerful, smashing and joking bands on a same night, in the same place, that will make the audince go mad in two different ways.

Lee Curtiss has made a name for himself creating primal, exquisitely deep and emotional dance tracks that pulse with life, sex, and humour, incorporating countless influences and genres but beholden to none. With his broad shoulders, even wider grin and keen sense of humour, Lee may give off the straight-shooting air of a Midwestern woodsman, but he’s got the ear, plain and simple. Lee Curtiss is an eccentric, an original, an innovator, a ten-year veteran of the electronic-music scene.

The second night of the Újbuda Jazz Festival features a true feminin character in the music of two excellent jazz bands: on one hand the triphop electronica topjazz world of the Bin-Jip group, on the other the soul, jazz, folk-music based sound of the Babám ensemble.

Powerful southern rock-grunge-metal duel featuring Angertea and Shapat Terror bands from Hungary. Fill up your battery with energy!

A journey into the depths of the Bangkok Casino on the wings of incrazed techno, minimal and house beats.Refined beats that will move and push till all go crazy!

The first night of the Újbuda Jazz Festival features a tremendous young Hungarian jazz saxophonist's quartet with his first class musicians along with the living legemd of the European jazz, Peter Brötzmann featuring his most explosive formation, the Full Blast.

An excellent French and two great Hungarian bands with their convincing and blowing sound, emerged on the graveyard of pop, bringing back the human sound of passion: trashpop and psychedelia at its best!

!!!ATTENTION!!! Due to the early november rains and cold, this party is going to take place in the Concert Hall! The freshest, coolest, blondest, richest, thickest, best, latest, most charming, most intriguing and most lunatic drum'n'bass one can wish for.