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BRUCE DICKINSON’s Rock Show Giving Fans A Chance To Host Their Own Radio Show At The Download Festival

IRON MAIDEN frontman BRUCE DICKINSON’s Rock Show is giving fans a chance to host their own Radio Show at the Download Festival this year. A press release courtesy of MaidenFans.com reads as follows:

"Fancy having a go at being a DJ like Bruce Dickinson? BBC 6 Music is taking over the airwaves at this year’s Download Festival and we’re looking for fresh new talent. Download boasts its very own radio station broadcasting to the entire festival site, 24 hours a day for 6 days from 6th to the 11th of June.

Download Radio is a one-stop-shop for all festival info, the latest performance and band updates PLUS site gossip, live guests and, of course, the very best rock music picked and played by 6 Music presenters, rock DJs… AND YOU!

If you think you’ve got what it takes to entertain Download’s hordes of rabid rock fans ENTER NOW. All you need to do is:

Send us a demo of you presenting a rock show
- On CD ONLY
- Of maximum 10 minutes duration
- With your name, address and phone number

And send it to:

Download DJ Competition
Bruce Dickinson’s Rock Show
P.O. Box 286
Cambridge
CB1 7XW

For more information go here or listen to Bruce’s weekly BBC 6 Music rock show live via the internet between 9:00pm to Midnight UK Time (between 3:00pm and 6:00pm EST) (plus online or on DAB).

IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson Signs 10-Foot Les Paul For Gibson GuitarTown London





According to ModernGuitars.com, Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of the legendary British rock band IRON MAIDEN took time out to sign his 10-foot hand-painted Gibson Les Paul on site at the Gibson GuitarTown London charity exhibition. The free standing fiberglass guitar named His Masters Voice 2007 was specially designed and hand-painted with acrylics by acclaimed visual artist James Holdsworth. The signed guitar features Iron Maiden's famous Eddie on the neck of the guitar along with a photo silkscreen printed image on the front. "Now, this is something which really excites me - music, big guitars and art, all in aid of charity. Top that," said Bruce Dickinson.

The unique guitar forms part of the Gibson GuitarTown London charity campaign, which can now be seen on public display around More London, South Bank, SE1 by City Hall until September 12th. Following the display, Bruce Dickinson’s signed guitar and 29 other specially hand-painted 10-foot Gibson Les Paul guitars will be auctioned off to raise money for The Prince’s Trust, Teenage Cancer Trust and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy at a gala event in November.

Iron Maiden have been on a world tour promoting their latest studio album, A Matter Of Life And Death, performing in shows in the US, India, Germany, Serbia, Italy and the UK which included a headline show at this year's Download Festival. You can also hear Bruce taking over the airwaves each Friday evening hosting the Friday Rock Show on BBC 6 Radio.

For more information on Gibson GuitarTown London visit www.londonguitartown.com.

For further information on Bruce Dickinson visit www.screamforme.com.

For more information on visual artist James Holdsworth visit www.artjah.co.uk.

IRON MAIDEN Frontman Bruce Dickinson's Movie Chemical Wedding "Well Underway"

According to an IRON MAIDEN update, filming of the supernatural horror thriller Chemical Wedding is well underway. Based on an original screenplay by (singer) 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.

IRON MAIDEN Singer Bruce Dickinson - "The Fans Are Attracted To Us Because We Are Still An Active Musical Force"




Jason Nahrung from Australia's The Courier Mail spoke to IRON MAIDEN vocal legend Bruce Dickinson recently about a number of topics including the much-anticipated Somewhere Back In Time tour. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Dickinson says next year's tour – the band's fourth visit to Australia, and first since 1992 – should satisfy decades of badgering from fans wanting to hear Maiden's hits live Down Under, but doesn't seek to replicate the Powerslave tour's past glory.

"We're not trying to rewrite the tour. It won't be Live After Death word for word. I won't be wearing my jocks on the outside of my Spandex. We'll be re-creating the cool bits, but the main thing is the music. We don't want to look like our own version of an Iron Maiden cover band."

The tour focuses on Maiden's peak years in the 1980s, when Beast, Piece Of Mind and Powerslave helped push it to the top of the metal ladder, further bolstered by hits from Somewhere in Time (1986) and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988). Maiden has remained an inspiration to bands and has enjoyed a resurgence of support in recent years thanks to solid studio albums and live performances.

Says Dickinson of the band's enduring popularity: "Maiden is a unique band. You could say we're one of the last of the originals. If anything, the fan base has regenerated. There's a whole new generation – two new generations – of kids turning up. We played Sweden and filled 50,000-seat soccer stadiums. We never filled a soccer stadium in the mid '80s. You look now and the first 50 rows are 16-year-olds. On our last tour we were able to play a new album (the 80-minute A Matter Of Life And Death) in its entirety, and still sell out a worldwide tour of arenas. The fans are attracted to us because we are still an active musical force."

Read more here.

Report: IRON MAIDEN Rockers' World Cyber Flight




www.Telegraph.co.uk has issued the following report from Megan Levy and agencies:

IRON MAIDEN frontman BRUCE DICKINSON is about to embark on a gruelling world tour - without stepping foot out of Britain.

The heavy metal rock star is joining a group of flight simulator enthusiasts for a marathon "cyber flight" around the world to raise money for charity.

For seven days Dickinson, who holds a pilot's licence, will sit on board a home-made flight simulator in a Surrey garage.

He will be part of a 17-strong British flight team on a virtual round-the-globe adventure called Simfest.

Departing from a virtual Sydney International Airport in Australia on Sunday, November 4th, the journey will take the team seven days and seven nights.

Simfest is part of World-Flight, an annual event in which teams from around the world use home-built flight simulators to fly around the world and raise money for a chosen charity. This year the British cyber pilot team is supporting Cancer Research UK.

Gary Oliver and Mark Hastings, who are master-minding the British effort, custom-built their own Boeing 777 flight simulator in Gary's garage. They hope to raise £5,000 for the charity.

Read the full story at Telegraph.co.uk.

BRUCE DICKINSON To Feature His Christmas Crackers - Top Interviews From 2007 On BBC Rock Show

IRON MAIDEN singer BRUCE DICKINSON has added another year-end special to his BBC 6 Music Rock Show radio programming schedule - on December 28th he'll feature Bruce' Best Bits - Musical Highlights Of '07. The week before, Bruce's Christmas Crackers will feature his top interviews of 2007.

You can listen to the weekly BBC 6 Music rock show live via the internet Fridays between 9 PM and Midnight UK Time (3 PM and 6 PM EST) here.