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offspring 26th On Sale Now Cincinnati, OH Riverbend The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Living End Phish 7/23 Polaris Amphitheatre Columbus, Ohio Tickets will be $26.50; seats will be reserved in pavilion and general admission on the lawn, and they will go on sale June 12th at the box office with no service charge and at Ticketmaster: 614.431.3600. Ozzfest '99: The Last Supper 06/14/99 Columbus OH Polaris Amphitheatre On Sale May 1st Black Sabbath to make final bow on fourth annual Ozzfest The invitations are sealed. The table is set. The event of the millenium is being staged once and for all. The last supper for Black Sabbath. This winter's sensational Reunion tour saw frontman Ozzy Osbourne return to the fold for the original band's first full tour in twenty years. In response to SRO crowds across the country and overwhelming fan demand, Sabbath are returning for one final swing as the main attraction of this year's Ozzfest. The legendary band's 1999 winter jaunt solidified their status as the kings of heavy music, and served as a powerful reminder of the vitality of their timeless music. The Sabs will headline the perennially top-grossing (per show, '97 and '98) Ozzfest, beginning May 27 in West Palm Beach, Fla., in the company of the best of their progeny and disciples, from the dark theatrics of Rob Zombie to Deftones' blistering emotional fury to the total abandon of Slayer. Also appearing on the main stage: veteran originalists Primus and stories-in-the-making Godsmack and System of a Down. This year's second stage boasts cyber-core heavies Fear Factory in the top spot with a supporting cast of hungry, heavy upstarts including Slipknot, Puya, hed(pe), Pushmonkey, Drain, Static-X, and, for the first time on the Ozzfest, unsigned bands: Los Angeles-based Flashpoint and England's Apartment 26. In addition to the two stages of music, Never Never Land, the circus-like concourse of attractions, exhibitors, and exhibitionists, will once again return with its diversions for the restless. The day promises to be an explosive juggernaut of apocalyptic rock and roll fever. (Dates and venues will be announced shortly.) This is it-the Last Supper. Come one, come all. Observe the Sabbath. Check the Sabbath Tour Page for dates and venues! The 30th Anniversary of the legendary Woodstock Festival will be celebrated with a diverse new generation of cutting edge superstars at Woodstock '99, to be held July 23-25 in Rome, New York. Acts officially slated include stadium-level performers such as Aerosmith, Counting Crows, Metallica, Dave Mathews Band, Rage Against The Machine, Willie Nelson and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Additional multiplatinum headliners include Alanis Morissette, Bush, Sheryl Crow, George Clinton, Collective Soul, Creed, DMX, Everlast, Ice Cube, Jewel, Korn, Live, Los Lobos, Sugar Ray and The Offspring. Other top acts that will make their mark in Woodstock lore include heavy-hitters like Foo Fighters, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Limp Bizkit, The Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim, The Tragically Hip, Rusted Root, moe., Guster, and others to be named later. Ticket/transportation packages from 17 major U.S. cities go on sale April 18 through Ticketmaster, with ordinary tickets for those who want to go back to the garden made available starting April 25. There will be no lack of peripheral entertainment for those who need a little peace from three days of music. Besides the two main stages with simultaneous entertainment, there will be an arts village, a film festival, experimental theater, concessions village, beer gardens, ecology displays, craft demonstrations, technology parks, video walls and raves into the wee hours of the night. The roster is a good representation of the current wave of top artists, as well as fresh spirit and social consciousness - of particular importance to the Woodstock organizers. At present, no acts from the original event are in the lineup, though future announcements and surprises are expected. Only six acts from Woodstock '94 are presently booked to take another bow: Aerosmith, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sheryl Crow, Metallica, Collective Soul, and Live. The virtual "Who's Who" of contemporary music acts looks to be a worthy successor to the fabled Three Days of Peace and Music in 1969 and the wildly successful sequel in 1994, and is the shoe-in for concert event of the year. It is also as ambitious and idealistic as the original. "Three more days of mud, noise and logistical nightmares? Wouldn't miss it for the world!" exclaimed Metallica's Lars Ulrich. The ambition lies not only in the massive size of the eclectic roster -- expected to swell as more main stage and secondary stage performers are announced -- or the size of the crowd, expected to run about 250,000, but in the message and spirit it strives to impart. "Woodstock isn't just a concert, it's a rite of passage," says Michael Lang, producer of the original fest as well as the '94 event. "Woodstock has become the Olympics of music festivals -- so that every five years we can step out of ourselves and celebrate diversity, people and great music." "Woodstock isn't a place, it's a state of mind," note organizers. Actually it's a fair-sized city as its ambitions extend to its own hospital, utilities systems, transportation, fire, communications and of course security, which will have five sub-stations manned by 2,800 security personnel. A 12-foot, mural-covered commemorative "Woodstock Wall" will enclose the entire concert grounds to help keep out the determined fence-shredding gate-crashers of '94. Furthermore, there will be 3.6 million gallons of drinking water, about 800 "Family of Woodstock" staff members roaming the grounds and providing inform ation and quick response services. Of course, 2,000 portable toilets to facilitate the yearning masses as well as comics who will need material about what will be the media event of the season. The show will be held at the 3,600 acre Griffis Park, formerly an Air Force Base in Rome, NY, and 50 minutes west of Albany and not far from Syracuse. Lang announced the event, along with promoter John Scher of Metropolitan Entertainment, who presented the '94 show, and Ossie Killkenny. The 25th Anniversary 1994 fest attracted some 350,000 attendees and spawned a multiplatinum live CD as well as the highest-grossing pay-per-view music event ever. It ignited the careers of such acts as Nine Inch Nails, Sheryl Crow and Green Day who went on to new levels of success. "Every generation deserves its own Woodstock," said New York City-based promoter Scher. "It brings together people from all over the country and the world to celebrate the spirit of the original event as well as to celebrate the spirit and the music of the moment." The 1999 festival is expected to pump some $30 million into the region's economy, which should please the locals like it did most of the townsfolk in Suagerties, NY, where the '94 fest was held. ''We've had a business here for 35 years and we've been holding on by the skin of our teeth,'' said Saugerties hotel owner Fran Farber at the time. ''This festival saved us from bankruptcy.'' Nonetheless, people in Rome, NY have concerns about security, which promoters hope to allay with a security staff led by former NYC police chief of transportation Kenneth Donohue. He said "The main differences between '94 and this show are: first, we have much better control of ticketing and admissions; second, the venue's existing structure will add to the show and the fence will prevent gate crashing and third, the organizational structure is much more efficient. The producers just wanted me to 'spare no expense' to make sure the event was safe and well-run as possible." Director of planning Daniel Flynn acknowledged fence-jumping was a big problem in 1994. "Where we had a six-foot chain link fence in 1994, we have a 12-foot plywood fence backed with steel girders that runs the entire perimeter of the venue. If you don't have a ticket, don't come." Tickets and ticket/transportation will be available from www.ticketmaster.com, from Ticketmaster outlets in the Northeast U.S. and se in Rome, NY, and 50 minutes west of Albany and not far from Syracuse. Lang announced the event, along with promoter John Scher of Metropolitan Entertainment, who presented the '94 show, and Ossie Killkenny. The 25th Anniversary 1994 fest attracted some 350,000 attendees and spawned a multiplatinum live CD as well as the highest-grossing pay-per-view music event ever. It ignited the careers of such acts as Nine Inch Nails, Sheryl Crow and Green Day who went on to new levels of success. Beginning April 18th at 9:00 a.m. EST bus and tour packages for Woodstock '99 will go on sale through Ticketmaster at 212-397-7474 or in Canada, or by phone at 212-397-7474 in the U.S. and 416-870-8000 in Canada. The tour packages, with prices starting at $249, include express entry-exit from the grounds with luxury motorcoach transportation. Individual ticket price is $150, not including applicable taxes, surcharges and $5 parking fee. Ticket price includes all three days of the festival and camping. Air travel packages are available starting April 18 that include roundtrip transportation on Northwest Airlines and three nights in a deluxe hotel, with all transfers and taxes. The packages are available from Target Sport Adventures at www.targetsport.com or at 800-832-4242 |
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