Bob Geldof Concert, 20:00-22:00, PECSA
The legendary Irish folk-punk-rock hero plays the opening concert of the festival. His latest album is How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell. Sponsored by Friends of Hay Festival Budapest

Bob Geldof's new album is called How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell. "The chances of me selling any fucking records are entirely slim," Geldof cheerfully announced recently in an interview about the album. Even more reason to go check out his live sound!

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Tickets:

Events taking place at CEU are free of charge.  Tickets for the Bob Geldof concert can be purchased for HUF 3000 in advance and HUF 3500 on the day at the concert venue (PECSA), at Ticket Express offices and website (www.tex.hu).

Venue details:

Central European University (CEU)
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9.
www.ceu.hu

PECSA Music Hall
1146 Budapest, Zichy Mihály út 14.
www.pecsamusichall.hu

More About Hay

Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. The festival creates an exchange of views and a meeting of minds, inspiring revelations personal, political and educational. Hay is, in Bill Clinton's phrase, ‘The Woodstock of the mind’. This year Budapest has also joined the Hay, which now runs 15 festivals across five continents. The event is organized by Hungarofest.

There will be conversations with renowned representatives of literature and art, scientific and public life inspiring each other and the audience with their thoughts and stories.

The event begins on Friday, 4 May, at PECSA Music Hall, with a concert by Bob Geldof, the anti-poverty campaigner and an iconic figure of the 1985 Live Aid concert. Next day the Petőfi Museum of Literature (PIM) and Central European University (CEU) will host the meetings with prominent artists and authors. Literature, architecture, film, and human rights will be the subject of the talks, which will be mainly in English, with simultaneous translation to Hungarian.

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