{"id":199435,"date":"2025-06-20T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199435\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:53:10","slug":"black-sabbath-villa-park-secret-revealed-as-promoter-says-blink-and-youll-miss-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199435\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath Villa Park secret revealed as promoter says ‘blink and you’ll miss it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Copping has revealed how so many bands will get their time in front of a Birmingham crowd during Back To The Beginning\"SharonSharon Osbourne kisses promoter Andy Copping alongside Tony Iommi(Image: Getty Images for Live Nation UK)<\/p>\n

One of the biggest questions Black Sabbath fans have had in the run-up to the band’s final Villa Park Stadium<\/a> gig is how it will all work, logistically, given the sheer size of the line-up.<\/p>\n

Not only will Black Sabbath reunite for the first time in 20 years for what is being billed as Ozzy Osbourne’s final live performance, but they’re bringing friends. A LOT of friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Giants from the world of rock and metal will be at the gig, with Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Gojira, Alice In Chains, Halestorm and many, many more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more: Black Sabbath at Villa Park – line-up, times, set list, tickets and how to get there<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more: All the Birmingham places heavy metal fans need to visit during Black Sabbath weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It left fans wondering how each band would get time in the Villa Park spotlight, with many reflecting on festival gigs with stage change-over times eating up chunks of the day.<\/p>\n

The gates to the show open at 11am and curfew is at 10:30pm but even with nearly 12 hours of action, it’s hard to imagine how all bands would get time to play.<\/p>\n

Now promoter Andy Copping has revealed to Planet Rock<\/a> the secret to how they’ll fit everyone in – a rotating stage.<\/p>\n

The producer said that as well as planning a few surprises for the Birmingham<\/a> crowd, they’d be employing a revolving stage to ensure smooth transitions between acts.<\/p>\n

He told Planet Rock: “The event itself is going to be very fluid. We’ve got a revolving stage so when somebody is playing, we’re gonna be building up the back line and everything for the act after that.<\/p>\n

“It is going to make things run really, really smoothly. We’re hoping for a 10 to 12 minute gap in-between each act, which I think is fair.<\/p>\n

“Normally you go to a festival and it could be anything from half-an-hour to 45 minutes or more between acts.<\/p>\n

“At this one, it’s going be very fluid. It’s going to be act after act after act. It’s almost like blink and you’ll miss it.<\/p>\n

“You’re not gonna have a lot of time and to go off and do anything other than watch this amazing music!”<\/p>\n

Rotating stages aren’t a new concept for gigs and in the US, the revolving platform method was used for Warped Tour events where multiple bands played on the same day.<\/p>\n

Now there’s a new big consideration for fans planning to attend the Birmingham gig – strategic toilet, food and merch buying breaks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Copping has revealed how so many bands will get their time in front of a Birmingham crowd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,19160,748,393,4884,29260,16,15,18874],"class_list":{"0":"post-199435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-black-sabbath","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-villa-park-stadium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114714850410162027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}