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Bruce Dickinson To Self-Publish ‘Chemical Wedding’ Book.
Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson and film director Julian Doyle have opted to self-publish the book tie-in for their forthcoming Chemical Wedding motion picture.
Written by Bruce Dickinson, front man of the legendary Iron Maiden, and Julian Doyle (Time Bandits, Life of Brian), Chemical Wedding is an occult thriller starring Simon Callow inspired by the life of the infamous Edwardian mystic, Aleister Crowley. It will go on general release in cinemas on the 23rd May.
The film tie-in will be self-published by Dickinson and Doyle under the Matador self-publishing imprint to coincide with the film’s release.
Dickinson, who has a small cameo role in the film, has stated that “On several levels, I think it will be nice for them [Iron Maiden fans] to see somebody from Maiden doing something else that gets the band’s name out there and also potentially gets a bit of respect for heavy metal and all the rest of it…. But, in addition, I think they’ll just enjoy it. It’s a rollicking good story.”
Synopsis
At Cambridge University a groundbreaking experiment integrates the human brain with a super-computer using a state-of-the art ‘interactive suit’. One of the Cambridge boffins is an obsessive follower of the turn-of- the-century occult leader, Aleister Crowley, and has reduced Crowley’s rituals to a series of equations and entered them in to the system. Bumbling academic, Professor Haddo (Simon Callow) is the willing volunteer, desperate to get inside the mind of the long-dead Crowley. The computer feeds directly into Haddo’s brain, transforming him from a shy and stuttering academic into the charismatic but sexually depraved Crowley who wreaks havoc around the Cambridge campus. Haddo believes himself to be the reincarnation of Crowley and as he plays out Crowley’s rituals, his associates realise he has knowledge that only the real Crowley could have. Could this be Aleister Crowley reincarnated, and if so, how do they send him back to the hell from which he came?
Matador
Matador is a leading UK-based self-publishing services provider offering a flexible, high quality service to authors wanting to self-publish. Recommended in the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2008, we set high standards in the content, production and marketing of self-published books. We pride ourselves on offering a quality service to authors, who include David Hewson (Saved), Caro Fraser (Breath of Corruption) and Polly Courtney (Golden Handcuffs). The company selectively helps authors self-publish about 150 new titles a year.
Matador – serious about self-publishing
World premiere of Chemical Wedding in London
If you want to check out the world premiere of Chemical Wedding, then get yourself along to SCI-FI LONDON on Sunday 4th May.
Bruce will also be appearing after the film to do a Question & Answer session, along with writer/director Julian Doyle and star Simon Callow.
Tickets are available via http://www.apollocinemas.co.uk or from 0207 451 9944
Find out more at the Sci-Fi London and Chemical Wedding websites.
Chemical Wedding will be on general release at the end of May - we’ll bring your details of when and where nearer the time.
The Chemical Wedding Official Trailer
The Trailer can be watched on youtube by clicking here: Chemical Wedding Official Trailer
Produced by London-based Focus Films, the movie, entitled “Chemical Wedding”, stars Simon Callow (IMDb) — of “Amadeus”, “Shakespeare in Love” and, appropriately, “The Phantom of the Opera” — as a Cambridge professor who becomes a reincarnation of Aleister Crowley (a role that, at various points, Malcolm McDowell and Roger Daltrey were said to be attached to); John Shrapnel, Kal Weber, Terence Bayler and Geoff Breton also star.
Crowley, who lived between 1875 and 1947, has been Bruce Dickinson’s idol for many years. The Iron Maiden song “Revelations” is said to refer to Crowley’s classic claim that he was the “anti-christ 666? reincarnated. In other words, the Devil himself.
Chemical Wedding Original Soundtrack
Release Date: 19 May 2008
Format: CD Album
Overview:
Chemical Wedding is a feature film written by Iron Maiden front-man, Bruce Dickinson and long term Monty Python editor, Julian Doyle, who also directed the film. The film is a gothic sci-fi extravaganza set in Trinity College Cambridge, where a scientific experiment goes awry resulting in the resurrection of the infamous Edwardian Occultist Aleister Crowley, (more…)
BRUCE DICKINSON ‘CHEMICAL WEDDING’ FILM LAUNCH @ CANNES FILM FESTIVAL - MAY 17
In addition to performing for two hours on stage with Iron Maiden and then donning his captain’s uniform and flying the band, a 50-man crew, 12 tons of equipment and stage set around the world (50,000 miles, 10 countries and 21 cities!) in Maiden’s own specially customised 757 Boeing named ‘Ed Force One’, Bruce Dickinson has also moved into the world of film and has co-written the screenplay for the forthcoming supernatural thriller ‘Chemical Wedding ‘ which is to be released theatrically around the UK regions in the early summer.
The film is directed by Julian Doyle, who co-wrote the screen play with Bruce and who first stepped into the Iron Maiden world back in 1988 when he wrote and directed the intriguing promotional video for ‘Can I Play With Madness’. ‘Chemical Wedding’ will be launched at Cannes Film Festival on May 17th when Bruce will fly Ed Force One full of VIP’s for a special viewing of the film. The film stars Simon Callow as Professor Haddo a reincarnated Aleister Crowley who was once dubbed “the most evil man in Britain”.
Friday Rock Show t-shirts available!
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Bruce Air - Now with added Ed Force One!
FLY ON ‘ED FORCE ONE’ * with Captain Bruce Dickinson at the controls and see IRON MAIDEN LIVE!
The best way to go to a Maiden show! This is your chance to fly on ED FORCE ONE - the actual 757 plane currently transporting the band crew and equipment around the world on the first leg of their SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME TOUR - with Captain Bruce Dickinson. (more…)
2008 has started!
Bruce in the (what is supposed to be) the new ‘Powerslave’ costume. Keep reading to see more pics from the Mumbai, India gig on February, 1st. (more…)
Autographed Guitar Sculpture from Bruce Up For Auction
“Following London’s most exciting and vibrant summer public art exhibition of giant hand-painted Les Paul replica guitar sculptures, the Gibson GuitarTown London Charity Auction will take place at the IndigO2 at The O2 on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007. The charity auction is sponsored by Coutts Bank, Hard Rock and Newbridge Silver.
Gibson GuitarTown London is a charity inspired campaign bringing the power of music together with art to raise money for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, The Prince’s Trust and Teenage Cancer Trust. All money raised from the sale of the 62 guitars at the live auction will be divided equally between the three designated charities…”If you couldn’t get your hands on a pair of LED ZEPPELIN tickets you could however take home a giant Gibson Les Paul replica guitar designed and signed by the bands lead singer ROBERT PLANT or how would you like a guitar signed by PAUL WELLER designed by Sir Peter Blake? Both these guitars and many more are now up for auction raising money for charity.
Between June 2007 to September 2007 thirty 10-foot hand-painted, free standing Gibson Les Paul replica guitars were on public display around More London on London’s South Bank by City Hall, SE1. An additional 30 hand painted and signed regular sized Gibson SG guitars were publicly displayed around The O2 Arena in Greenwich. All the associated visual artists including Sir Peter Blake, Andrew Logan, Peter Saville, Anton Corbijn and the caricaturist Gerald Scarfe collaborated with many of Britain’s best known and respected musicians exclusively for the Gibson Guitartown London charity campaign. This is now your opportunity to own a piece of rock ‘n’ roll history.
Each individual hand-painted 10-foot Gibson Les Paul replica guitar has been personally signed by rock n’ roll legends and mainstream artists such as SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY, BRIAN MAY, ROBERT PLANT, NOEL GALLAGHER, PAUL WELLER, ROD STEWART, OZZY OSBOURNE, JEFF BECK, KT TUNSTALL, BRUCE DICKINSON, NEW ORDER, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, HARD-FI, KASABIAN, JAMES BLUNT, KATIE MELUA, STEREOPHONICS, MARK KNOPFLER, ROXY MUSIC, GALLOWS and THE KOOKS, to name a few.
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