Chemical Wedding book now on sale

Jack Parsons was a brilliant chemist, member of Cal Tech propulsion unit that invented of the rocket fuel used for the US space flight to the moon. He was also a fanatical believer in the Magyck of Aleister Crowley the aging occultist who considered himself ‘The Beast’ incarnate.

In 1947 Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard were performing Crowley’s mystic rituals in a house in Pasadena, California. Parsons wrote excitedly to his occult leader, Crowley: “I have had the most devastating experience of my life. I have been in direct touch with One who is most Holy and Beautiful as mentioned in your ‘Book of the Law’. First instructions were received through Lafayette Ron Hubbard the seer. I have followed them to the letter. There was a desire for incarnation. I am to act as an instructor, guardian, guide for nine months; then it will be loosed on the world…”

Crowley wrote despairingly to a disciple about Parsons: “It appears that he has given away both his girl and his money to this writer of science fiction and is now invoking my ritual to produce a MOONCHILD. I am fairly frantic…”

Nine months later while being visited by two students from Cambridge, Aleister Crowley died of cardiac degeneration. Missing from his personal possessions was his magical diaries and his pocket-watch. His funeral took place in the Chapel of the Brighton Crematorium. The final rites were performed by the novelist Louis Marlowe reading extracts from Crowley’s ‘Book of the Law’. The Brighton Echo denounced the whole ceremony as a Black Mass.

In 1952 Jack Parsons was blown up in his laboratory in Pasadena. L. Ron Hubbard died on his yacht as leader of the Church of Scientology. But did the issue end with these three deaths? Would Crowley, as he claimed, ever return from death to rule the world? Why did US astronauts name a crater on the moon after Jack Parsons? Is L. Ron Hubbard really dead? What had been generated by the ceremony in California that seemed to signal Crowley’s demise? And what happened to the missing pocket-watch?

Unanswered questions till, late in the twentieth century, Dr. Joshua Mathers brought a ’state of the art ‘Interactive Suit’ from Cal Tech California to Cambridge in England to begin an experiment that, unknown to mankind, changed the course of our planet.

ISBN: 978-1906510-909

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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

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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.

Video from Chemical Wedding Set

A video provided by the Reuters press agency from the shooting set of the upcoming Chemical Wedding film, written by Bruce Dickinson, can be found at this location.

In a segment in which Bruce discusses the upcoming movie, he states: “My experience with stages is obviously Iron Maiden and that sort of stuff but you know, I’ve directed a few videos over the course of my rock n’ roll past and I enjoyed them. I enjoyed directing videos, writing movies a completely different thing. I wrote a couple of absurd comic novels that came out as well and you know, they did OK actually. So, writing is something that’s always sort of interested me, so this seemed like a good opportunity to learn the process really.”

“The Chemical Wedding” Film Press Release

Filming of the supernatural horror thriller Chemical Wedding is well underway. Based on an original screenplay by Bruce Dickinson, the film directed by Julian Doyle, veteran second unit director and editor of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Time Bandits and Monty Python’s The Life of Brian. Julian wrote and directed Maiden’s partially animated promotional video ‘Can I Play With Madness’.

Chemical Wedding stars Simon Callow as a reincarnation of Aleister Crowley, dubbed ‘the most evil man in Britain.’

Crowley was a major Edwardian figure and a scandalous character. A Cambridge graduate, he became an infamous mystic and occult scholar and although he died in 1947, his books are still in print and he remains a major focus for the occult world. In the film, Crowley’s spirit is re-animated by a superconductor mainframe, transforming the shy and stuttering Professor Haddo (Callow) into the charismatic but sexually depraved Crowley who wreaks havoc with the students and faculty of today’s Cambridge campus. The cast will be rounded out with cameos from Dickinson and other Python regulars.

The film should be released sometime in 2008 with Bruce supervising the soundtrack.

“The Chemical Wedding” Film Goes Into Production

Bruce Dickinson’s film about occult legend Aleister Crowley (infamous as “the wickedest man in the world”) has finally gone into production, according to Fangoria. 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.

Although Bruce isn’t planning a successor to his 2005 solo album “Tyranny of Souls” in the break before Maiden’s next summer tour, he doesn’t rule out getting together with producer/guitarist Roy Z to work on some new music for the soundtrack.