On Monday morning they performed a cardioversion successfully and he was discharged Tuesday evening 31st August.  Adam will be rejoining the tour from tomorrow and is looking forward to getting back on the road.

He would especially like to thank Dr. Wolfram Von Housen, doctor Gunner, and all the resident doctors and nurses at the Bundeswehrkrankenhaus hospital in Berlin who looked after him so well.

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The new single from Ozzy and the band is out now  – here’s the video directed by Jack Osbourne, copy and paste into your browser.

http://www.ozzy.com/us/news/watch-%E2%80%9Clife-won%E2%80%99t-wait%E2%80%9D-now

Thursday 26th August and we’ve arrived now in the beautiful city of Prague and all geared up for the European leg of this tour.

The 6 Ozzfest shows were great although the rain at the Camden, New Jersey show and the final show in Boston meant the 2nd stage had to close early due to flooding.
Apologies also to the 200 or so people that queued in the rain to meet Gus and I at the ESP tent at these shows. Unfortunately, the weather is one thing we can’t much about!

Damian is in the studio now (back in the UK) recording his vocals for the Headspace album so it’s really taking shape now. I spoke to Gus G about possibly doing some shows together with his band Firewind so watch this space for shows next year once the HEADSPACE album is released and the Ozzy tour has come to an end!
More soon
AW

2 shows in now on the 6 date Ozzfest US tour and Tinley Park in Chicago last night was superb. A great show and amazing crowd. Great view from the back from this fans camera phone footage  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XiPTHSPBM8

Only slight downer from last nights show is that I left my wallet in a case in the dressing room at Tinley park, which is in a truck on it’s way on a 600 mile journey to Pittsburg. This wouldn’t normally be an issue, but as we have our own plane for this tour, and my passport is having a visa put in it in New York, the news that my driving license was in my wallet was less than well received.
Trains are all sold out to Pittsburg and most of the day so far has been spent at the British Consulate here in Chicago trying to get some sort of replacement ID. This will hopefully mean I can still get on the plane tomorrow morning from Chicago. Failing that …. any fans fancy giving me a lift to Pittsburg from Chicago?

Some great HD footage here from this fan
Paranoid (with me on guitar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pl9lwytVQg&feature=channel

And some TV footage from the Jimmy Kimmel show in Los Angeles last week where we play on of the songs I co wrote from the album “Scream”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8K3R7s2kDc

Great news on the Headspace progress, Damian is going into the studio next week to record vocals for the debut album. Finally things seem to be getting towards finishing the album. It’ll be worth the wait….

AW

The parts that featured the band were shot in a Mausoleum in Alta Dina, Los Angeles which went on until 2am. Pretty spooky place to be at 2 in the morning, but very cool never the less. Needless to say, being the Prince of Darkness’s new video, it wasn’t bright lights, flowers and fairground rides which just added to the scariness!

Last couple of rehearsal run throughs over the next few days, and we’ve been trying a few new & old tracks out for Sturgis on Thursday 12th August - www.sturgis.com - which should be great. I’ve never been but I’ve heard it’s a real good laugh.

We are on the George Lopez show again next week (17th August I think) and we play another new track from the Scream album. A bit of pointless, time wasting footage filmed by me from the first trip to the TV studios can be viewed here!
www.youtube.com/headspacetheband

Just announced is that Ozzy is headlining the Voodoo festival in New Orleans at the end of October. I’ve never been to New Orleans, and seeing as though it’s the birthplace of Dr John, my musical idol - I can’t wait to pack up some gris gris and get down there…..
More to follow soon

AW

26^th July 2010

Detroit Rock City

I just arrived back from just about the fastest US visit ever done. One show at the Fillmore in Detroit for Riverfest on Sat night, flew from London Thursday back Monday morning, A lesson in “the show must go on” with local crew and sound techs on hand, nobody could foresee the roof 100 feet above the monitor board giving way to water 10 mins before doors. That then made our lives a little tricky as we had yet to actually soundcheck and people were starting to come in. Luckily we had a sound guy and monitor engineer we had never met, let alone heard any of our music so chances of this trip being worthwhile were looking slimmer by the second. I guess at that point you make the call and we decided to just go for it. I’ll be honest, not the best show we’ve done, actually far from it, but the people who had come to see us were none the wiser that we hadn’t soundchecked and I had no monitors at all, luckily the constant pulse of a Tama rhythm watch gave me some solace, albeit not the most inspiring mix, and pretty hard to sing when you can’t hear a note your singing. Hence the title seemed apt for this one, as these kind of unforeseeable cockups are the unpolished truth of rock and roll.

In other news, I am in the studio tomorrow guesting on a track for a buddy of mine singer/songwriter Aaron short, with the rest of the week working on tracks for the new album. Damian and I will be in the studio early August finishing vocals and Mr Brook has been busy hitting drums. Now time for some artwork and design and we will be looking forward to finally unleashing this album on you all. Heading back out to Denver for Mile High Festival mid August with One Eskimo, but looks to be another in and out trip so we should have a good run of time at home to finish the album.

Notable mentions on the ipod at the moment are Pain of Salvations latest Road Salt One, I love these guys, can’t stop listening to this the title track is amazing. Meshuggah’s DVD Alive is nothing short of jaw dropping, just ridiculous, a must have. Porcupine Tree’s live blu ray Anesthatise  is also brilliant, very cool show. Bit pissed I was away over the weekend as High Voltage Festival was featuring Transatlantic  (with Steve Hackett joining) and Opeth.

More from the studio soon

pete

With the Ozzy tour off to a great start, a 3 week break means I can jump back into my old seat playing keys and a bit of acoustic guitar with Will Young on 8 Country House / Festivals through July. Nice to be back with Will’s band for these shows and the great British weather is not disappointing us with plenty of wind and rain for these outdoor shows!
The show on Hampsted Heath from Saturday 17th July will be aired on Radio 2 , Thursday 22nd July 2010 at 8PM.

An in depth interview with Keyboard Magazine due out in November has video interview clips and tuition clips here;
http://keyboardmag.com/..article/117051
Some tips on how to play some Ozzy tunes on keys if you are inclined!

AW

26th June 2010

Sydney Sydney Sydney

No, this is not a homesick cry to my homeland but an update of where I am in the world, Sydney…Nebraska?! Yes its true, actually we are pretty much stopped at a truckstop en route to Salt Lake City but there is not much between Omaha and SLC and this is it. Shows have been going well with the One Eskimo crowd, busily working on new tracks while trying to get more guitar tracks finished for Headspace album. Never enough hours in the day it would seem. Have managed to sneak into our dayroom motel to use some interweb to download the OS4 software for iphone, look forward to that…how sad.

Unfortunately miss Adam in LA by a few days, he has been busy rehearsing with Ozzy for the last few weeks before heading back to the UK for some shows. As for the other Headspace crew, we are once again scattered around the globe. Brooky I think is still in Scotland, Damian in Cornwall and Lee on the road somewhere? The album moving slowly as ever but most of which emailed back and forth as parts are coming together. Stay tuned.

Head to LA in a few days to play more shows and cram in some studio time, flying back to the UK 2^nd week of July, looking forward to some time at home. See you on the road somewhere in the States soon.

pete

The album is released around the world today, on June 22nd.

An error in the liner notes means the first pressing will have only 4 of the 5 tracks cowritten by myself, Ozzy and Kevin Churko being credited. The 5th track “I want it more” was incorrectly labeled just “Osbourne / Churko” due to a title change at the last minute, meaning the absense of my name. This will be corrected in later pressings.

Inbetween the rehearsal schedule, we played a few Tv shows - the Jimmy Kimmel show which can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaC3b8XIPPg and today the George Lopez show, which I’m sure will be on you tube within a few hours!

We head back to the UK tomorrow for a few shows:

OZZY OSBOURNE
26th June - Birmingham town hall, UK
29th  June Folkestone, UK - Leas Cliff Hall
1st July Oxford, UK - Academy
3rd July - Camden, London - Itunes festival - Roundhouse
5th July Padova, Italy - Villa Contarini
9th July - Turku, Finland - Ruisrock Festival

I will be with Will Young on the following dates of his summer tour, before the Ozzy tour starts up early August.

WILL YOUNG
15th July - Rochester Castle - Kent
16th July - Leicester / Leicester Tigers Rugby Club
17th July - Kenwood House Hampstead
23rd July - Howard Davis park, Jersey
24th July -  Newton Abbot Racecourse - (South Devon festival)
25th July - Billericay / Essex Lake Meadows
31st July - Osborne Houes (Isle of Wight
1st August - Tatton Park (Cheshire)

More news soon!  AW

AW