Live Entertainment Blog

This year’s OzzFest is scheduled for August 9th and the venue for this festival is Pizza Hut Park in Dallas. Sharon Osburne, Ozzy’s wife is co- producing the fest with AEG Live. It is expected that Metallica, Shadows Fall, Serj Tankian, Ozzy Osbourne and Apocalyptica are going to perform in this live entertainment event. This fest is more important to Osbourne as it is the only live performance for him this summer. Ticket sale for the Ozzfest will start from May 31st. The event will pay tribute to “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, the late Guitarist of Pantera. This one-day festival will also have acts of The Sword, Witchcraft, Devil Driver and Rigor Mortis.

Last week there was a police sting at an Ozzy Osbourne concert in Fargo, North Dakota. The sting took place on October 29 at the Fargodome, the city’s main arena. It was masterminded by county sheriff Paul D. Local. The sheriff used the fake moniker PDL Productions planning Ozzy Osbourne pre-show concert party by offering the very same perks that were included in Osbourne’s official VIP tour packages that included 2 tickets to forty unsuspecting citizens. The latter, had received the PDL invites by mail. As soon as the “winners” showed up, they were promptly arrested on various outstanding warrants. County sheriff Paul D. Local quickly held a televised press conference in order to congratulate himself on success of the sting operation.

The only problem was that Ozzy Osbourne was not notified of the planned scheme. In a statement he said with angrily that instead of holding a press conference to pat himself [sheriff], he should be apologizing to Ozzy for using his name in connection with the arrests. The artist also added that it insulted him and his audience, and it showed how lazy that particular sheriff was when it came to doing his job.

Over the past two decades or so, law enforcement has used similar sting operations across the United States, and the tactic was glorified in the 1989 Al Pacino/Ellen Barkin movie entitled “Sea of Love.”

Ozzy Osbourne believes that Sheriff Laney went out of his way to tarnish his reputation by implying that he somehow attracted a criminal element, which was certainly not true. The musician said it was obvious to him that the sheriff had an agenda and was just trying to make a name for himself on Ozzy’s back.