The official spin regarding Ozzy Osbourne’s summer festival taking a hiatus this summer: Ozzy was struck with the inspiration to record the follow-up to his 2007 album Black Rain so hard, he simply had to postpone the package tour this summer so he could get something on whatever store shelves are standing come Black Friday 2009. And he can’t do it this spring, because he has a not very anticipated family variety hour to attend to! MORE »
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Ozzfest Goes Dark For 2009
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Ozzfest Clipped To One Day In Dallas, Metallica Stuck Atop Its Lineup
Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica will headline this year’s Ozzfest, which is slated to be a one-day festival that will also feature Jonathan Davis, The Sword, Serj Tankian, and many other, crappier metal bands. The show is set for Aug. 9 at Dallas’ Pizza Hut Park, a setup that is causing fans to revolt in the official announcement’s comment section. (Sample comments: “FUCK YOU Sharron!!!!!!! If it wasnt for the thousands of people like me that payed to see Ozzfest and promote music YOU wouldnt have anything….You have made your last dime from me”; “This Suck This is bullshit ozzfest is only going to be a one day show in TX. Well I am gland that all of other summer tour is not like this like warped tour now we got a new summer tour call rockstar mayhem tour I hope it better than ozzfest”) Full lineup after the jump. MORE »
And capping a day of festival line-up changes, rumors, and sperm-related news, we learn that the latest rumor regarding troubled ol’ Ozzfest is that the metal revue might be transplanted to London’s O2 arena this July. MORE »
Will Ozzfest Be Revamped Into A Coachella For Metalheads?
The last time we wrote about the venerable Ozzfest, it looked as if the annual metal extravaganza was finally being scaled back after a successful decade-plus run, thanks to less-than-stellar attendance last summer. Ozzfest’s architects were reportedly planning a “limited run” tour in 2008, down from 25 cities in 2007. But the latest blog blab wonders if this year’s Ozzfest won’t actually be a tour at all, in what might turn out to be a very limited run indeed. MORE »
Ozzfest To Embark On A “Limited Run” After Free Edition’s Limited Success
Last year’s edition of the Ozzy Osbourne-helmed traveling metal circus Ozzfest, experimented with letting people in for free, and was subsequently plagued by underwhelming headliners who didn’t get paid for their time, lots of crowd unrest, and limited appearances by the man himself. All of which probably led to the amphitheaters where the shows were held only turning up half-full, thus denying the sponsors who bankrolled the fest their chance to reach the maximum number of eyeballs. So it’s time for some nipping and tucking! MORE »
Ozzfest-in-the-Garden-State Update: It looks like two poor schlubs actually died of overdoses at last night’s debauched Ozzfest stop in Holmdel, N.J., which means I feel kinda bad for poking fun at it earlier. Josh Homme and capitalism were right: no good can come of a free Ozzfest. MORE »
Ozzfest: Giving Kids Their First Taste Of Eventual Prison Life
In the 900th report of mass arrests at an Ozzfest stop over the last few months, almost 100 metalheads were fingered for underage drinking and other rowdy behavior at a tour stop in New Jersey. MORE »
Ozzfest Attendees Try To Bring Chaos Of General-Admission Shows To Crummy Colorado Shed
Ozzfest’s stop at the Coors Amphitheatre in Colorado wasn’t only notable for Ozzy Osbourne’s post-show hospital visit–someone decided to make Static-X’s set more exciting by inciting “an absolutely ridiculous and shameful war of thrown items between the lawn-seat visitors and the reserved-seat visitors,” according to a blogger for MyFox Colorado who goes by the name of “SCRIBE2″: MORE »
Warped Vs. Ozzfest: Let The Beef-Flinging Begin
Is this what rock and roll infighting has come to–a war of the words between the organizers of touring summer festivals? Apparently, yes. (Man, between this and the WaMu news, today is a pretty wan day for rock and roll.) Here’s the first quote that runs in a Kansas City Star piece on the free edition of Ozzfest, which hits town next Monday: MORE »
Taiwan Hoping To Ride Ozzfest’s Crazy Train Into The UN
The Taiwanese symphonic-doom metal outfit ChthoniC will be hitting the road on this summer’s free-to-all-comers Ozzfest, and it’s planning to stump for its home country along the way: As far back as 1973, Taiwan has applied under the name “Republic of China” and every time China, a nation with a… MORE »
