The shape of OZZFEST's return is coming into focus. Speaking on SiriusXM's Page Six Radio on August 19, Jack Osbourne confirmed that the 2027 edition will run for one day only — and that the top of the bill is close to being made public.
"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," he said. On the format: "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."
Asked what putting the festival back together has been like, Osbourne reached for a garage metaphor. "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."
The booking, he admitted, is the hard part in 2026. "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.'"
An authentic connection to his father matters. "100%," he said when asked whether that guides the choices. "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."
The festival's founding purpose survives intact. New artists will again be "a big part of the lineup", Osbourne said, and organisers plan to hold "a spot for at least one unsigned artist".
The 2027 event is expected at Villa Park in Birmingham, the Aston Villa ground that hosted Ozzy Osbourne's final performance — the "Back To The Beginning" concert of July 5, 2025. Sharon Osbourne has said a touring format remains tentative, pencilled in for 2028 and beyond if demand supports it.
Source: blabbermouth.net