Chemcial Wedding Reviews

It’s highly entertaining, schlocky stuff with the bits of pop science thrown in (”I feel like Schroedinger’s Cat” etc) giving it even more of a b-movie feel. It might not be quite enough to forgive Bruce for ‘Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter’ but it does make you wonder if there’s anything the singer, jet pilot and champion fencer can’t do.
- Trevor Baker, Rocksound.

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Chemical Wedding Soundtrack Out Now

Warner music Entertainment release the Chemical Wedding Soundtrack album in the UK today, Monday 26th May.

The CD, which is an eclectic musical cocktail, includes tracks from Iron Maiden and Bruce Dickinson, the original film score, dialogue excerpts and epic classical pieces.  It is structured so as to tell the story of the film from diabolical beginning to demonic end.

The original score was written by Bruce Dickinson, Dave Howman, Andre Jaquemin, and Rod Melvin, and can be bought from Play.com, What Records and all good record shops.

The full musical track listing runs :-

1. CHEMICAL WEDDING - BRUCE DICKINSON
2. MEET THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD - GEOFF BRETON & SEAN REA
3. HUSH, HUSH, HUSH, HERE COMES THE BOGEY MAN (Remastered) - HENRY HALL
4. YOUNG SYMONDS & YOUNG ALEX MEET CROWLEY - GEOFF BRETON, SEAN REA & JOHN SHRAPNEL
5. 50 YEARS I KEPT HIS WATCH - PAUL MCDOWELL
6. THE SUIT REVEALED (Score)
7. THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES ON - THOMAS NELSTROP
8. MATHERS’ DREAM (Score)
9. SEXUAL MAGIC - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
10. AN ENCOUNTER WITH HIM - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
11. LIA MEETS MATHERS (Score)
12. SYMONDS INTRODUCES DR OLIVER HADDO - PAUL MCDOWELL
13. MESSIAH : PART 2 “HALLELUJAH” - HANDEL
14. HADDO’S LECTURE - SIMON CALLOW
15. SYMPHONY NO.40 IN G MINOR K550 : I MOLTO ALLEGRO - MOZART
16. HADDO’S EXPLANATION - SIMON CALLOW, RICHARD FRANKLIN & ROBERT ASHBY
17. THOSE COCKLESS WONDERS - SIMON CALLOW & LUCY CUDDEN
18. WHO IS IT YOU THINK I AM - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
19. CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS - IRON MAIDEN
20. PROFESSOR IN SUIT THE JOURNEY - KAL WEBBER, JUD CHARLTON, TERRENCE BAYLER & JAMIE LISA JACQUEMIN
21. EVERY MAN & WOMAN IS A STAR  - SIMON CALLOW
22. FANLIGHT FANNY - GEORGE FORMBY
23. HADDO VISITS THE MYSTIC SHOP - SIMON CALLOW & LILLY DUMONT
24. THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE — JUD CHARLTON & LUCY CUDDEN
25. SIP THE WINE - THE CEREMONY — NATASHA FORD
26. SPARE SOME CHANGE — KARE SILVERSTEN
27. THE WICKER MAN - IRON MAIDEN
28. SEPERATION BY SKIN (Alchemical Mix) - EARTH LAB
29. SHE’S THINKING OF ME - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
30. PRODUCING A MOONCHILD — MIKE SHANNON & PAUL MCDOWELL
31. BEHOLD THE PLACE I HAVE LED YOU - SIMON CALLOW
32. HYPNOTIZING BRENT - PAUL MCDOWELL, TERRENCE BAYLER & KAL WEBER
33. THE CURIOUS CAT COMES WILLINGLY - SIMON CALLOW
34. HE WAS NEVER A CARPENTER - PAUL MCDOWELL & KAL WEBER
35. MATHERS ENTERS THE SUIT - PAUL MCDOWELL & KAL WEBER
36. TIME AFTER ALL IS ONLY RELATIVE - SIMON CALLOW
37. WHERE’S THE DOOR - KAL WEBER & JAMIE LISA JACQUEMIN
38. HOLY UNION - SIMON CALLOW
39. THE LAST FIGHT (Score)
40. PRÉLUDE À L’APRÈS-MIDI D’UN FAUNE - DEBUSSY
41. FELT OUT OF PLACE - MIKE SHANNON & PAUL MCDOWELL
42. MAN OF SORROWS - BRUCE DICKINSON

You can buy the Chemical Wedding soundtrack from Amazon.com by clicking the link below:

Bruce in Cannes

Click the link below to watch a video of Bruce arriving in Cannes taken from BBC:

Bruce Arriving in Cannes

Metal god, actor, novelist, swordsman, pilot, DJ - and now screenwriter. IRON MAIDEN’s Bruce Dickinson is a man of many parts, and this weekend he showed up in Cannes to show off a new film called Chemical Wedding. Dickinson, a registered commercial airline pilot, flew himself to the south of France, along with a bunch of journalists, fans, and suitably attired hangers-on (they carried tote bags bearing the legend “Bruce Air Flight 666″).

There’s something very Iron Maiden about Wedding, dabbling as it does in the occult world of early-20th-century mystic Aleister Crowley, finding several excuses to liberate young women from their clothes, and incorporating dialogue that sounds as if it was lifted from the Number of the Beast’s lyric sheet. It would all be too ridiculous if Dickinson were not such a nice, unassuming chap - the 49-year-old product of a minor public school with a penchant for satanic imagery. When Dickinson sits down with Chemical Wedding director Julian Doyle (a veteran of Iron Maiden videos and Terry Gilliam’s editing room) the pair clearly get on like a house on fire. Dickinson says Chemical Wedding has been in the works for 15 years, having passed through a number of producers; in the end, he got the thing off the ground himself.

“I started getting into Aleister Crowley when I was 15,” he says. “He was the first rock star.” He adds that Chemical Wedding is “Withnail & I meets The Wicker Man”, which must have sounded good in those pitch meetings.

Without Dickinson, Chemical Wedding would have remained one of the submerged nine-tenths of gunk films clogging up the Cannes film market. Hampered by ropey performances, it never reaches the levels of weirdness and humour it is aiming at. But Dickinson, game as ever, can’t resist a final, harmless blasphemy: “We bring Crowley back for three days. Like Christ. Only better.” Get your devil-horn salute ready now.”

Chemical Wedding Review by LASHTAL.COM

LASHTAL.COM (The Home of Aleister Crowley Society) has reviewed Chemical Wedding on Monday, May 5th, 2008. The website gave it a positive review as you can read it yourself by clicking the link below. (more…)

Chemical Wedding UK cinema dates

SHOWCASE Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Dudley, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newham, Nottingham, Paisley, Peterborough, Reading, Teeside and Walsall
www.showcasecinemas.co.uk / 0871 220 1000

Apollo Regent Street (London) - www.apollocinemas.co.uk / 0871 220 6000

Click the link below to view the official film poster.

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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

http://www.troubador.co.uk/matador

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.

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”.

Chemical Wedding new movie poster revealed