During an August 19 appearance on SiriusXM‘s Page Six Radio, Ozzy‘s son Jack Osbourne once again discussed the long-awaited return of Ozzfest. Asked what it has been like putting together next year’s Ozzfest, Jack said: “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.”

Jack went on to reveal that the 2027 edition of Ozzfest is “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 said.

Asked if he has fun curating next year’s Ozzfest, Jack responded: “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.'”

Asked if he looks for artists who have an authentic connection to Ozzy and Ozzfest or were inspired by his father’s music, Jack said: “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.”

Jack added that Ozzfest will once again continue the tradition of spotlighting new artists, saying: “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.”

This past January, Sharon told Billboard magazine in an interview that she was considering putting on another edition of the Ozzfest traveling festival.

“I’ve been talking to Live Nation about bringing (Ozzfest) back recently,” she said. “It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people. We really started metal festivals in this country. It was (replicated but) never done with the spirit of what ours was, because ours was a place for new talent. It was like summer camp for kids.”

According to Sharon, the next iteration of Ozzfest could launch as soon as 2027. However, she added that she a new vision for it: “I’d like to mix up the genres,” she said.

During the same chat, Sharon said that she is working with Live Nation to launch a classical tour of BLACK SABBATH‘s catalog, performed by local orchestras and set to state-of-the-art visuals.

Ozzfest started 30 years ago and was the first national music festival of its kind dedicated to hard rock music.

The event has not been a traveling festival in the U.S. since 2007’s “free” edition. The show morphed into a one-off event in Dallas in 2008, took 2009 off and played just six cities in 2010.

Over 17,000 concert-goers were in attendance for 2017’s all-day Ozzfest, which was headlined by Ozzy, while Rob Zombie closed out the next day’s Knotfest bill.

2017 was the second year Ozzy‘s Ozzfest had merged with SLIPKNOT‘s Knotfest for a two-day heavy metal juggernaut.

Last November Sharon Osbourne says that BLACK SABBATH‘s farewell concert raised $11 million — a far cry from the “ridiculous” initial reports that the event brought in nearly $200 million.

In the days after the July 5 event, dubbed “Back To The Beginning”, the event’s musical director, Tom Morello, shared an Instagram post stating that roughly $190 million (140 million British pounds) would be donated to charity from the concert. Billboard magazine later also reported that the event had raised $190 million, while The Guardian reported that the pay-per-view livestream of the event reached nearly six million fans, generating an estimated $150 million in revenue. At the time, it was expected that the funds would be distributed equally to Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Acorn Children’s Hospice and Cure Parkinson’s — an organization dedicated to finding a cure for the disease Osbourne had lived with since 2019.

Sharon offered insight into the actual amount raised by “Back To The Beginning” while speaking to her children Jack and Kelly during the latest episode of “The Osbournes” podcast. Addressing the erroneous initial reports of the net amount of money generated by the concert, Sharon said: “If one show could have raised… I mean, the articles were saying it was up to, like 190 million. It’s, like, any artist, just do one big show, film it and you can retire just on one show. No, it was nowhere near, and I wish that it was, but we are living in reality, in the real world.”

Asked by Jack what “Back To The Beginning” actually raised, Sharon said: “It raised 11 million. But with the cost, ’cause we paid the cost of bringing everybody in, everybody out, accommodation, everything. And no one got paid. Nobody asked for a penny. They gave their time, their efforts, everything for free. People were just — oh God — so generous.”