Black Sabbath postpones Vancouver show, Newt keeps bloggin' anyway

by Steve Newton on February 3rd, 2016 at 3:51 PM

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"Fuckin' hell!"

That's what I blurted out in my kitchen around 9:15 last night while randomly checking my work emails and finding one from Live Nation announcing that Black Sabbath had postponed the gig it was set to play in Vancouver tonight.

I mean, come on. Earlier in the day Ozzy Osbourne had tweeted that--despite the band having cancelled two Alberta shows due to his "severe sinusitis"--he was "looking forward to getting back at it tomorrow in BC."

"Fuckin' hell!" seemed like the only appropriate response to such unexpected news.

Still does.

Fuckin' hell! Doesn't the Ozzman know that, since last Wednesday, I've been posting daily blogs as a countdown to the last ever Sabbath show in Vancouver?

That's seven whole blogs, if my calculations are correct. It involved much cutting and pasting of old stories I'd written. A lot of "Command C" followed by "Command V".

Not exactly thrill-a-minute stuff.

And for what? Turns out I'm not getting my ear-canals cauterized by Tony Iommi's brutal riffs tonight anyway.

I even had one last blog lined up, that I was gonna bang out this afternoon. The headline was gonna be: Dear Black Sabbath: please do a song from your best album tonight.

Fuckin' hell, let's do it anyway. When they come back for the make-up show I'm sure they'll take it under consideration.

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Dear Black Sabbath:

please do a song from your best album tonight.

I've been checking your recent setlists online, and was not impressed to see that you do not include a single song from your best album, 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

WTF?

Or "fuckin' hell", if you will.

I see from your January 27 setlist in Winnipeg that you are currently performing no less than six tracks from Paranoid. Now, don't get me wrong: Paranoid is a wicked album. Almost as wicked as Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. But would it kill you to maybe skip the percussion showcase "Rat Salad"--I mean Bill Ward's not gonna be there anyway--and maybe slip in "Sabbra Cadabra"?

Or "Looking for Today"?

"Killing Yourself to Live", maybe?

Thanks guys.

And if you're still deadset against including anything from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath for some strange reason, I'd also settle for "Supernaut", off Volume IV.

Frank Zappa used to love that riff, dontcha know.