Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio, Jack Osbourne discussed the 2027 Ozzfest. That event will take place at Villa Park in Birmingham, England and the headliner is expected to be revealed “in the next couple of weeks.”

Jack said the following:

“It’s been interesting, ’cause it’s kind of like finding the old car in the shop and being, like, ‘All right, let’s get this engine going.’ But it’s cool. There’s a lot of excitement around it. And we’re gonna announce pretty soon — I think in the next couple of weeks we’re gonna announce kind of who the main headliner is and where we’re doing it. So it’s been nice.”

He also added:

“[It’s] not gonna be a multi-day thing. We’re gonna kind of stick to our roots of… We did a couple of two-day Ozzfests years ago, but it’s just gonna be one day.”

He continued when asked if he has fun serving as a curator for next year’s Ozzfest:

“I do. It’s just really difficult now. It’s really difficult to kind of, like, ‘All right, who’s doing what?’ ‘Cause a lot of huge bands now are doing their own festivals, they’re doing their own thing, so it’s, like, ‘All right, who’s not got their own festival? Who’s available? Who’s reasonably priced?’ Because with all these huge festivals, artists are, like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it for, like, 10 million dollars.’ You’re, like, ‘Eh.’”

He also confirmed that he looks for artists who had a connection to Ozzy Osbourne:

“100%. Yeah, yeah. And there’s a lot of the huge artists now in the genre, they all kind of were on Ozzfest at a certain point. We had everyone from Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Disturbed, Slipknot. I mean, they all kind of came up… Well, not Rob Zombie and Manson, but Disturbed and Slipknot and System Of A Down.”

He went on to say that the event will continue to showcase new artists:

“Yeah, that’s still gonna be a big part of the lineup, is new artists. And we’re gonna probably have a spot for at least one unsigned artist.”

[via Blabbermouth]