When you had been into rock and steel all through the late ’90s and early 2000s, Ozzfest was a really, very massive deal to you. Ozzfest ran as a touring entity between 1996 and 2010, after which as a one-off factor between 2013 and 2018 (generally along with Knotfest). There was additionally that terrible 2022 digital version, however we attempt to ignore that.
Now in keeping with Sharon Osbourne in the latest episode of The Osbournes podcast, it’d come again.
Ozzy first requested Sharon if she’d ever contemplating reviving the competition, to which Sharon replied (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “Yeah, certain. In fact.” Then in fact got here the speak of cash after their daughter Kelly talked about managers being “practical” about what everybody must be paid.
“It is nice. That is what we wished — all people to do spin-offs and do their very own festivals, and it is nice,” mentioned Sharon. “It is nice for followers; it is good. However why is it on the subject of us that everyone thinks that we’re trillionaires, and so that each supervisor who desires their band on our competition desires one of many fucking trillions they assume we have to placed on the competition?”
Which is not a shocking remark contemplating Sharon had previously voiced her gripes about everybody eager to receives a commission extra (extra? Pretty? Who is aware of), saying in a earlier episode: “…managers and brokers wished increasingly more and extra, and it simply wasn’t price efficient anymore. We stopped, as a result of it simply wasn’t price efficient.”
The excellent news is that Ozzfest – as a future, hypothetical entity – remains to be inquisitive about breaking new bands. “It is at all times nice to have the child stage,” mentioned Sharon. “I imply, that is what it is all about — breaking new bands. That is why we did it.”
She continued: “It’s extremely laborious for acts who should not recognized to immediately go and be in entrance of fifty,000 individuals on a important stage at a competition and perceive what they’re meant to do. It’s extremely intimidating. You may have possibly 5 thousand individuals at that child stage, after which to go from 5 to fifty to sixty thousand individuals, and it is actually, actually laborious for child bands. They’ve pay their dues anyway. That is what it is all about.”
In fact the actual query right here is how Ozzfest would differentiate itself from all the opposite main touring festivals and packages that go round lately. So who is aware of – possibly it will rule?
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