During a recent episode of “The Osbournes” podcast, Ozzy, Sharon, Jack, and Kelly Osbourne talked a bit about the touring incarnation of Ozzfest. Notably, Sharon mentioned that she would be open to resurrecting the traveling festival.
Sharon said the following after Ozzy asked if she would be willing to bring Ozzfest back: “Yeah, sure. Of course.” Kelly then chimed in saying “it always comes down to” whether or not bands and managers will be “realistic” about payments. Sharon agreed, while also commenting on other festivals:
“It’s great. That’s what we wanted — everybody to do spin-offs and do their own festivals, and it’s great. It’s great for fans; it’s brilliant. But why is it when it comes to us that everybody thinks that we are trillionaires, and so that every manager who wants their band on our festival wants one of the fucking trillions they think we’ve got to put on the festival?”
She also added the following when Ozzy said they can just focus on smaller bands:
“You can do it for a baby stage, but you still need the headliners. It’s always great to have the baby stage, I mean, that’s what it’s all about — breaking new bands. That’s why we did it.
It’s very hard for acts who are not known to suddenly go and be in front of 50,000 people on a main stage at a festival and understand what they’re meant to do. It’s very intimidating. You could have maybe five thousand people at that baby stage, and then to go from five to fifty to sixty thousand people, and it’s really, really hard for baby bands. They’ve pay their dues anyway. That’s what it’s all about.”
She then continued after Jack noted that a lot of recent festivals are “basically just Ozzfest”:
“Well, it’s the same bands just going around and around and around. But that’s what’s so good, because we started something, people have taken it, and it’s still great for the genre. It’s really good.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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