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Title: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Kunt 4 Life on May 26, 2022, 12:32:17 PM
Doesn't time fly. Anyone remember this day out in a concrete car park, rain and Ozzy less tunes. Tool, slayers system of a down, therapy? Drowning pool and a band that shall remain nameless all played that day.
Even 20 years ago Ozzy was an unreliable gig.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Ollkiller on May 26, 2022, 12:33:59 PM
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on May 26, 2022, 12:32:17 PM
Doesn't time fly. Anyone remember this day out in a concrete car park, rain and Ozzy less tunes. Tool, slayers system of a down, therapy? Drowning pool and a band that shall remain nameless all played that day.
Even 20 years ago Ozzy was an unreliable gig.

A great day out. Therapy, Slayer and Tool all on great form. SOAD were a let down. Very sloppy.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Emphyrio on May 26, 2022, 12:47:15 PM
Great day out. Was happy with all bands I saw, to varying degrees. Tool were mesmerising.

Also, in lieu of a refund for Ozzy pulling out, got choice of tickets for Marlay Park gigs for free. Which were duly used for Meatloaf which was surprisingly enjoyable.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 26, 2022, 12:51:41 PM
I moshed and sang/screamed along all the way to the front during SOAD so have good memories of that. I hadn't started listening to Tool at all back then, so didn't get into them at all. Slayer were great, but overall it was a pretty crappy day of metal compared to pretty much any other metal fest I've ever been to.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: astfgyl on May 26, 2022, 02:33:27 PM
I enjoyed it once I sobered up. Drinking 6 cans and half litre of vodka before half 11 in the morning wasn't the greatest idea ever. Was just delighted to see tool the only time I've seen em thought they were fucking brilliant. Have a bootleg of that tool set for if anyone is interested I can give a link. Didn't care that Ozzy didn't play in the slightest and sold my Marlay park tickets for nearly face value so thanks Ozzy hope you enjoyed playing the queen's jubilee as much as I enjoyed you playing it! Therapy? were decent, slayer were ok in the pissing rain, SOAD were meh. Actually enjoyed Mushroomhead in the indoor although I wouldn't touch em these days. Fond memories for me.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: open face surgery on May 26, 2022, 04:58:12 PM
Great day except the lads I got a bus with weren't into Tool so could only watch them from afar. Slayer were great. Noone else of note.

Could smoke and drink on the bus and myself and another lad right behind the driver were the first to skin up. Stopped somewhere along the way for a piss and the bus driver, prob in his 60s, was laughing about the 'Moroccan shtuff' we were smoking behind him.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: astfgyl on May 26, 2022, 06:20:06 PM
Not seeing any mention of cyclefly for some reason
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Kunt 4 Life on May 26, 2022, 07:24:20 PM
They played quite early on, think they had started their set as we were coming in.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Trev on May 26, 2022, 07:30:15 PM
I was 16 at the time and never been to an outdoor fest so I'm sure it's massively tinted by nostalgia, but I thought it was great. Had never really listened to Ozzy so didn't care that he skipped it, first time seeing Slayer and managed to get up to the barrier for it, sure it was a grand day out
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Eoin McLove on May 26, 2022, 11:23:06 PM
I was on the piss the night before, fell home, slept on the couch and was woken up early by my friend beeping outside. Fell into his van, got to the venue at whatever time, started back into the session straight away and can't remember much about the day. It was very blurry to say the least. I remember SOAD being alright, Slayer being good and I was asleep during Tool, being held up by the press of the crowd. I would open my eyes every so often to see a blue man covered in orange dots on-stage. That's about all I remember from it. A fun day to be sure, but a write off  :laugh:
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Necro Red on May 27, 2022, 10:17:18 AM
Very fond memories of this now. I was 16 at the time and was big into Slayer, so seeing them playing Raining Blood in the rain will stay with me forever! I still have a tshirt from that actually. Maybe I'll wear it and be like an auld lad that wears old tour shirts ha ha ha. I remember the singer from cycle fly jumping in to the crowd and recall seeing Kittie indoors at the smaller stage. Fairly good for what they do I guess
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 27, 2022, 12:33:56 PM
Did that band with the feckin' eejit wearing a schoolbag play this as well? Ill Nino??

I remember having a long old chat with Otep, whose set we hadn't seen but they were sound. And then with some other mates we got a load of photos with aul lad gardai we got to throw the horns haha
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: open face surgery on May 27, 2022, 12:53:43 PM
Ah, I saw Otep actually and remember them being alright.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Kunt 4 Life on May 27, 2022, 12:57:01 PM
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 27, 2022, 12:33:56 PM
Did that band with the feckin' eejit wearing a schoolbag play this as well? Ill Nino??

I remember having a long old chat with Otep, whose set we hadn't seen but they were sound. And then with some other mates we got a load of photos with aul lad gardai we got to throw the horns haha

Yeah they were there. Got bumped to main stage cause ozzy no show
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: open face surgery on May 27, 2022, 03:43:49 PM
I was full sure they played indoors.

EDIT: Just checked them out and I'm not sure that's who I was thinking of. It's very, very bad.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Trev on May 27, 2022, 03:54:42 PM
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 27, 2022, 12:33:56 PM
Did that band with the feckin' eejit wearing a schoolbag play this as well? Ill Nino??

Marc Rizzo, he ended up in Soulfly for a while and dropped the bag thing. Some of his solo instrumental stuff is well worth checking out, he's a   brilliant guitarist that ended up in some unfortunate bands
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 27, 2022, 04:02:10 PM
Quote from: open face surgery on May 27, 2022, 03:43:49 PM
I was full sure they played indoors.

Ill Nino he meant, not Otep.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: blessed1 on May 28, 2022, 06:40:26 AM
That was the first big gig I ever went to so I thought it was deadly at the time.
Remember seeing American head-charge, Mushroomhead and Kittie indoors. Great day out as far as I can remember but that's definitely down to nostalgia.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Necro Red on May 28, 2022, 11:07:36 AM
Ah, yea. I remember seeing American Head Charge. I forgot about that. From my memory a great gig. I remember buzzing after it for days on end
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: astfgyl on May 28, 2022, 01:32:21 PM
Quote from: blessed1 on May 28, 2022, 06:40:26 AM
That was the first big gig I ever went to so I thought it was deadly at the time.
Remember seeing American head-charge, Mushroomhead and Kittie indoors. Great day out as far as I can remember but that's definitely down to nostalgia.

Saw the same 3 in the indoor. Mushroomhead was clashing with some of slayer as well
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 28, 2022, 02:21:37 PM
Don't know if the board has any sane people who avoid General Discussion on principle, but this should really be in the main metal forum.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: astfgyl on May 28, 2022, 04:58:53 PM
It might work well as a lure to get some of the more sane users caught up in circular arguments on the 2 or 3 more polarised threads but yeah
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: jpm4 on May 28, 2022, 10:13:29 PM
Article on it here:

https://www.joe.ie/music/ozzfest-ireland-2002-retrospective-ozzy-tool-slayer-system-of-a-down-therapy-cyclefly-748386

Found memories for me - my first big metal day out, all the main bands delivered. Main memory is probably the singer from Tool dancing around like a smurf off of his tits.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: jobrok1 on May 29, 2022, 11:25:32 AM
He girated on a box for the whole set. They bored the tots off me that day, tbh. Liked them up till then and lost almost all interest in them after that day.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Mower Liberation Front on May 29, 2022, 12:09:32 PM
Didn't he actually skip it because it was the premiere night of that hideous tv show of him and his spawn?
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Eoin McLove on May 29, 2022, 12:13:43 PM
What an awful tv show that was.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 29, 2022, 05:02:50 PM
To bring even more 'general' into this topic, who would have predicted when that show premiered that Ozzy would still be alive 20 years later!
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: Kunt 4 Life on May 29, 2022, 06:35:49 PM
And still no showing
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: jobrok1 on May 30, 2022, 08:02:47 AM
I thought he skipped it cause he went on the rip with Zakk the night before.
Title: Re: 20 years ago today..ozzfest Ireland.. without ozzy
Post by: astfgyl on May 30, 2022, 05:47:25 PM
He was saving his voice for the queen's jubilee. That's what happened.

I got a great kick that morning watching the Ozzy fans turning away in disgust but to be fair I can hardly blame them as the rest of the lineup wasn't exactly for fans of Ozzy