OZZFEST!!!!!

I just looked at the lineup, so uhhh... no.

 

I might go just to see Killswitch and It Dies Today.

 

Should still be a killer show although Iron Maiden won't be at the Ozzfest in Houston. They are leaving the tour and heading back to Europe on August 20th.

Iron Maiden have confirmed appearing in the USA in July/August on this years Ozzfest alongside Black Sabbath.
Their “Eddie Rips Up… Europe/North America - Summer 2005 Tour” has already had tremendous on-sale reactions in Europe with tickets for their massive show in Gothenburg’s Ullevi Stadim on 9th July recently selling out all 53,500 in just 2½ hours - the second fastest sell-out ever in Sweden’s biggest venue after Bruce Springsteen ! Tickets for their show at Helsinki’s Hartwell Arena on July 6 and 7 went the same way with 22,000 tickets selling out in a day.

Comments singer Bruce Dickinson, “We’ve always had great support there before but this is stepping up another level entirely. This whole tour will be one of the biggest we have ever done in terms in the number of fans we are playing to and if the reaction continues like this every show will be a truly momentous occasion.

“Following the great reception received by our DVD “ The Early Days”, which chronicled the Maiden story over the first four albums, we decided to give the fans a special treat on this Tour by playing materiel almost exclusively from these albums, including a lot of songs that fans have been asking us to play for years along with fan favourites like Number of the Beast, Run to the Hills, Hallowed be thy Name, Wrathchild and The Trooper. And it will be a lot of fun for us playing stuff we haven’t played for years!!

“In keeping with this we will be bringing over for Ozzfest the full European show , naturally including as special guest Eddie in various appropriate guises!! The stage sets, production and backdrops will recreate aspects of the shows on the tours around those albums – Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind. Only bigger, much bigger!!! We don’t know if anyone has done anything like this before but we think it’s something the fans will really appreciate both in the choice of songs and in the Production values.
“Unfortunately we are unable to complete the full Ozzfest schedule as we were already confirmed to headline some major British festivals in that period, so apologies to fans in Texas and the South East.
. Having said that we are very much looking forward to the dates we are doing, especially with such a great bill. We’re sure it will be a fantastic day out for the fans”

These shows tie in with the earlier release of the hugely acclaimed DVD ‘The History Of Iron Maiden part 1: The Early Days’ .

Stay tuned to www.ironmaiden.com for the most up to date news, updates and information on when and where tickets are made available to avoid any disappointment.

 

Yep, and Black Label Society and Glenn Hughes/Tony Iommi are also performing.

 

I went to Ozzfest once, and I'm a huge metal fan, but at the end of the long, hot day at the motor speedway I never wanted to hear another crunchy guitar as long as I lived. Brutal.

 

I was considering it, until Iron Maiden bailed.

 

fyi, it's the "Among the Living" Anthrax lineup, in case anyone didn't know.

 

Ah. ozzfest. the only place where you will see ozzy hitched on a 10 foot water gun and spending precious minutes spraying you instead of performing actual songs. sounds fun.