Iron Maiden News - March 12, 2008

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Bruce co-writes new horror film 'Chemical Wedding'

Named after one of his early solo albums, Bruce Dickinson today announced that his motion picture writing debut will premiere at the Cannes Festival. 'Chemical Wedding' is a horror film based on the actions of Aleister Crowley and has been co-written as well as directed by Julian Doyle (you may know him for producing the Can I Play With Madness video.

Ed Force One, the 747 belonging to Iron Maiden, will be carrying guests to the premiere although it is unknown at this time whether any tickets on the flight or to the premiere will be made available to fans at any point before the showing.

The film may not get a UK cinema release, but will no doubt be released on DVD or even online download worldwide so keep your eyes peeled in the near future. In terms of what Bruce is up to next, he has no plans for a new solo album after 'Tyranny of Souls' came out 3 years ago now, although there may be some work of his on the soundtrack to this new motion picture.

New compliation album 'Somewhere Back In Time' Announced

Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood today announced that the band plan to release a brand new compilation album this summer (with an intended date of release being May 12th). With cover art, which you can see to the left of this news post, being completed by the returning legend Derek Riggs and a double picture disk edition being planned, this will most likely be a must have for any pure Maiden fanatic and those who are new to the band, especially after attending this year's tour. We have posted the full tracklist below.

1. Churchill Speech
2. Aces High
3. 2 Minutes To Midnight
4. The Trooper
5. Wasted Years
6. Children Of The Damned
7. The Number of The Beast
8. Run To The Hills
9. Phantom Of The Opera (Live)
10. The Evil That Men Do
11. Wrathchild (Live)
12. Can I Play With Madness
13. Powerslave
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name
15. Iron Maiden (Live)

Extra Tickets made available for summer Twickenham Concert

After a huge response by fans at the launch of tickets for Maiden's first visit to a stadium in the UK at the rugby ground Twickenham on the 5th of July, the band have made it possible for many more to enjoy the experience by releasing another batch of standing tickets (those which were most in demand) to the market through promoter Live Nation.

Rod 'Sheriff' Smallwood, their long-time manager, made the announcement with this statement: "We know many of our fans love to be standing in front of the stage so we are very pleased that we have been able to secure these extra standing tickets. This will be a memorable show and will be our only one in the UK for at least two years so we intend to make it very special."

With Avenged Sevenfold and Within Temptation as the support acts for the concert and prices kept to the lowest possible levels due to the high amount available, this will certainly be one of the most popular gigs of the summer and all of you Maiden fans will be able to get your hands on them on Wednesday the 12th of March (9am on the dot if you want to ensure that you get your place) if you are signed up to the fanclub. The rest of the public will get their chance to purchase them at 9am on Friday the 14th of March.

Iron Maiden 2008 Tour - US Dates

After touring extensively to promote A Matter of Life and Death over the last 12 months, many fans thought Maiden would be taking 2008 off to relax and recuperate. They've been proved wrong once again as the band have recently announced a tour for the Summer in which they will be playing some of their greatest songs from the years gone by (Not unlike the Give me 'Ed.. Till I'm Dead tour of 2003. The most recent announcement was the dates of the concerts that are going to be held in North America, which you can read in full below, along with the date on which tickets will go on sale.

• Wed 5/21/08 San Antonio, TX - Verizon Wireless - on sale 3/1 10am
• Thu 5/22/08 Houston, TX - Woodlands - on sale 3/1 10am
• Sun 5/25/08 Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion - on sale 3/1 10am
• Mon 5/26/08 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion - on sale 3/15 10am
• Wed 5/28/08 Concord, CA - Concord - on sale 3/9 10am
• Fri 5/30/08 Los Angeles, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - on sale 3/1 10am
• Sat 5/31/08 Los Angeles, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - on sale 3/1 10am
• Mon 6/2/08 Seattle, WA - White River Amph - on sale 3/8 10am

Maiden World News section relaunches

After a long period of sporadic updates to the frontpage of Maiden-World.com, we are glad to announce that we have bounced back with an entirely revamped news section that will not only be updated with the latest Iron Maiden news for the foreseeable future, it will also allow comments to be made on the content and a lot more updates on what the band are up to (in regards to both their studio time and releases along with tour and concert information). This is one of the first steps in developing a lot of new exciting content for the site over the next couple of months, so look out for updates.

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