{"id":240607,"date":"2025-07-05T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240607\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:17:09","slug":"crowds-boo-as-controversial-first-supergroup-takes-to-stage-at-black-sabbath-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240607\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds boo as &#8216;controversial&#8217; first supergroup takes to stage at Black Sabbath gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first supergroup has performed at the Black Sabbath gig today &#8211; but their arrival got a mixed reaction, with many fans booing.<\/p>\n<p>Our reporter Kirsty Bosley is in the Back to the Beginning crowd today and explained what she saw on stage.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;We got our first supergroup of the day. Lzzy Hale is fronting it, one of the only &#8211; if not the only &#8211; woman on today&#8217;s bill.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read more:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/black-sabbath-live-fans-arrive-31991539\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Black Sabbath live updates as thousands descend on Villa Park today for Back to the Beginning gig;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Black Sabbath live updates as thousands descend on Villa Park today for Back to the Beginning gig<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/black-sabbath-villa-park-line-111118258.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Black Sabbath at Villa Park - line-up, times, set list, tickets and how to get there;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Sabbath at Villa Park &#8211; line-up, times, set list, tickets and how to get there<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Members of Faith No More (Mike Bordin), Megadeth (David Ellefson) Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s legendary guitarist Jake E Lee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re playing The Ultimate Sin by Ozzy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, she said the arrival of one artist drew some boos from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;David Draiman from Disturbed is now joining them to huge boos from the crowd. He&#8217;s caused controversy with his political opinions online and the crowd are not welcoming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite boos, hands are still up in the air to clap along to the Draiman-fronted rendition of 1986 Ozzy track Shot In The Dark.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Disturbed may be best known for their brooding version of the Simon &amp; Garfunkel classic The Sound of Silence, but singer David Draiman caused controversy following Glastonbury earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The singer responded to some politically charged statements made at the festival, but received a mixed reaction from fans.<\/p>\n<p><b>Don&#8217;t miss our glossy Black Sabbath &#8211; End of an Era magazine celebrating their final show! Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.regionalnewspapers.co.uk\/black-sabbath---end-of-an-era-4607-p.asp?utm_source=reachplc&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Join our <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/Gy830KcgSH8DulPie3xBFv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Black Sabbath WhatsApp group;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Black Sabbath WhatsApp group<\/a> for the latest updates so you don&#8217;t miss a single thing this weekend.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to the Black Sabbath gig, we hope you have an amazing time! Please share your photos and comments with us by emailing megan.archerfox@reachplc.com &#8211; we&#8217;d love to share them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first supergroup has performed at the Black Sabbath gig today &#8211; but their arrival got a mixed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[93545,27580,77,93548,93547,93546,269,29260,93489,93549,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-240607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-david-draiman","9":"tag-david-ellefson","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kirsty-bosley","12":"tag-lzzy-hale","13":"tag-mike-bordin","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","16":"tag-sabbath-gig","17":"tag-supergroup","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607","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=240607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}