Black Sabbath playing a warm up for Download in Birmingham, May 19th
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Like a tampon thief, I'm gonna pull some strings.

Cmon livenation do a download ticketbuyer presale - at least it will increase chances of getting ticket from <5% to 10% lol
 
 

Do want, don't even mind seated tickets, I just need to go!

This just had to be the night of the Champions League final didn't it....

Have to go to this, Sort me out Livenation

I think I'm going to go and camp outside the venue right now!!

45 quid apparently

PartyHard

45 quid apparently

 
Reassuringly expensive.

Nice one 02 site
 

Press release. (Thanks Swiftbob)
 
In preparation for their hugely anticipated headline performance at this year’s Download Festival, Black Sabbath have announced an intimate homecoming show at the O2 Academy in Birmingham on Saturday, 19th May. The show will be the band’s first in Birmingham for thirteen years. A donation to Help for Heroes will be made from the proceeds of the show - ticket details below.

Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler return to their hometown for this exclusive show following November’s momentous announcement that the band are currently working on their first studio album in thirty three years with seven-time Grammy winning producer Rick Rubin. It will be their ninth studio album together and their first since 1978’s Never Say Die!

Black Sabbath is one of the most influential rock bands of all time. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, “The success of their first two albums ‘Black Sabbath’ and ‘Paranoid’ marked a paradigm shift in the world of rock. Not until Black Sabbath upended the music scene did the term ‘heavy metal’ enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided.”

Following the release of their self-titled debut album in 1970, “The Original” Black Sabbath have gone on to release eight acclaimed studio albums and sell over seventy million albums worldwide. In 2005 the band were inducted into the U.K Music Hall of Fame by Angus Young of AC/DC. This was followed by their induction in 2006 into the U.S Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed on them by Metallica’s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

Black Sabbath will headline the legendary Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago this August before returning to the studio to finish recording their long-awaited studio album.

Tickets priced £45 (subject to booking fee) go on sale at 9am on Friday 4th May from http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/  or http://www.livenation.co.uk/

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Drools so tempting!

Looks like there won't be an O2 presale for this one as of now.

Any one know who is drumming? Notice Bill isn't mentioned, but neither is any one else.

Even tho its highly unlikely i'll try and get tickets for this.

Gonna try get tickets as well, not getting my hopes up though.

DO WANT!!!

Going to have to take a day off work to join the scrum for tickets. At first, after the whole thing has been sullied by Bill's absence and the fact that Ozzy will be a mess through out, lead me to believe I could miss it, but its still the Iommi playing those riffs so therefore has to be done.

Need to reeeeeally think about this. I got soooo excited when I saw the poster, but I don't really think I could justify spending £45 I don't really have spare on any gig, let alone for a band I'm seeing at Download anyway...
 
But then again, it's fucking Black Sabbath in the Birmingham Academy.