CIRCUS DIABLO frontman Billy Morrison has issued the following report from the OZZFest tour:

"I’m typing this as I sit in the back of a completely full flight from Las Vegas to Portland. I came offstage at The Gorge and jumped straight into a waiting car that whisked me off to Seattle airport and down to Vegas in time to DJ at the opening of the Slash case at the Hard Rock. Slash was celebrating the opening with Robert Knight, the amazing rock photographer who has shot pretty much everyone in the genre, and I was lucky enough not only to have been photographed by Robert many times, but to be invited to DJ at the party for him and Slash. So that’s exactly what I did! I timed everything to perfection, so that no shows would be cancelled, and I am now reflecting on the crazy journey I just made as I sit crammed into the tiny plane, flying me back to my bandmates, the good old tour bus, and a club show in Portland, OR.

The Gorge was a fantastic show – totally punk rock, and the audience again were just amazing. To go up there in between the other heavy heavy bands is a challenge, and we love it. And so, it appears, do the Ozzfest crowd. As I have been saying in interviews, the Ozzfest is a very special festival. It embraces everything that is good about rock music, and the audience is not stupid. They welcome good, loud, honest rock…..and it doesn’t matter where it comes from. We have killed it at the first two Ozzfest shows, and its because we can feed off the audience. We see them screaming, shouting, smiling, punching the air, moshing and headbanging to our music. THAT shit right there is why I do it. So much fun!!"

Circus Diablo's tour schedule is currently as follows:

OZZFest:

July

17 - Sleep Train Amphitheatre - Sacramento, CA
19 - Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA
21 - Hyundai Pavilion - Devore, CA
24 - Cricket Pavilion - Phoenix, AZ
26 - Journal Pavilion - Albuquerque, NM
28 - Coors Amphitheatre - Denver, CO
30 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Kansas City, MO

August

2 - Smirnoff Music Center - Dallas, TX
4 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - San Antonio, TX
6 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - St. Louis, MO
8 - Germain Amphitheatre - Columbus, OH
10 - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre - Tinley Park, IL
12 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre - East Troy, WI
14 - Verizon Wireless Music Theatre - Indianapolis, IN
16 - PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ
18 - New England Dodge Music Theatre - Hartford, CT
20 - Tweeter Center - Boston, MA
22 - Tweeter Center - Philadelphia, PA
24 - Post Gazette Pavilion - Pittsburgh, PA
26 - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Detroit, MI
28 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte, NC
30 - Sound Advice Amphitheatre - West Palm Beach, FL

OZZFest off-dates:

July

18 - Cafe Du Nord - San Francisco, CA
20 - The Roxy Theater - Los Angeles, CA
22 - Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
27 - The Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
29 - The Blue Goat - Salina, KS
31 - Midnight 3 - Abilene, TX

August

1 - The Meridian - Houston, TX
7 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH
9 - Double Door - Chicago, IL
13 - Badger Theater - Reedsburg, WI
17 - Living Room - Providence, RI
19 - Knitting Factory - New York, NY
25 - The Ritz - Warren, MI