The hard work paid off - by the end of 2013 Foals won a number of awards: Best Live Act at the Q awards, Best Live Act at The Sun Bizarre awards, Best Single (Inhaler) at the NME awards and a Barclaycard Mercury Music nomination (the band’s second).

In December Foals topped the NME readers album and track of the year poll, beating Arctic Monkeys and QOTSA to pole position. Reading & Leeds Director Melvin Benn summed it up in the summer of 2013: ‘Foals are the most in touch guitar band in the world - I don't think anybody's matching them'.

Detroit. Willesden. Olympos, on the Greek island of Karpathos. “The inside of our skulls” - these are the places that made up Foals third album, their most direct and fully realised album yet. Holy Fire entered the UK charts at number 2 in February 2013 (their highest chart entry to date) and gave the band their first Number 1 album in Australia.

Electrifying come back single ‘Inhaler’ and won ‘Best Single’ at the NME awards the same month, whilst the beautiful‘Late Night’ (April 22nd) came complete with a shock and awe style video from critically acclaimed director Nabil (Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Nas). So igniting was the relationship, Nabil also went on to make the video to follow up single ‘Bad Habit’ which premiered June 2013.

Holy Firewas Foals highest selling record to date, reaching gold status in the UK just three months after it was released. In March 2013 the band played two shows in the same day (which sold out in 15 minutes flat) at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall, to rave reviews; ‘privileged punters realised they were witnessing one of the gigs of the year’ said The Times, 'Foals are the best live band the UK has to offer' said The Fly, whilst Evening Standard added 'Foals are ready for their arena moment'.

Foals continued their live assault across the UK throughout the summer with a set of high billing festivals shows –Glastonbury Other stage second from top, Reading & Leeds main stage third from top, and their first ever UK headline performance at Latitude Sunday night - 'They gathered the strongest reaction of the weekend from the huge crowd assembled’ said NME, 'Foals lit up the closing night' said Metro.

Main Stage
Thu, August 13, 7:30 PM > 9:00 PM

Source: Sziget Festival Budapest