Blaze Bayley, IRON MAIDEN singer 1994-1999, has released a brand new Christmas song “Crazy Christmas”, which was written and recorded during spring/summer this year and is available now via digital platforms including iTunes and Amazon mp3. A light-hearted and fun music video has also been released to help promote the song. Watch the “Crazy Christmas” video below.
Blaze co-wrote ‘Crazy Christmas’ with singer/songwriter Michelle Sciarrotta who also performs under the name Fall Girl, and Chris Appleton who is lead guitarist in Blaze’s own recording and touring band and is also singer/guitarist in British metal band Absolva.
Blaze Bayley’s career spans in excess of 30 years, starting as singer in Wolfsbane before catapulting to worldwide fame in Iron Maiden during 1994 to 1999. After leaving Iron Maiden he has pursued a successful solo career with particular progress with the release of a new album earlier this year entitled ‘Infinite Entanglement’ which is the first in a trilogy of albums with a sci-fi concept.
The second instalment in the trilogy is set for release in March 2017 together with plans for a World Tour and full details of that are expected to be revealed within the next 7-10 days.
Middle Of Beyond (aka MOB) have unveiled officially licensed IRON MAIDEN sweater and scarf collections for the holiday season. The sweater is made of 100% acrylic and is available in black, dark grey, light grey, red, tan, and white in color. It is decorated with Eddie central image and a repeat pattern. The scarf is 72 inches in length and 7 inches wide and made of 100% acrylic. More information at Middle Of Beyond.
Canada’s The Metal Voice is producing an online tour Documentary called Canadian Entanglement on former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley on his upcoming Canadian Mini Tour.
Part 2 of the multi-part series is now streaming below as well as the first installment
In Part 2 Blaze Bayley is followed on his journey from the U.K. to Montreal, Canada where he rehearses with the local Canadian touring band, shops at Walmart for some needed items for the tour and does an in depth interview on his story growing up in Birmingham.
Guests in the documentary include Canadian Author Martin Popoff and former Anthrax singer Neil Turbin
Excerpts from the Documentary
“When I was at school I tried to join the choir but they kicked me out for being too loud and I kind of gave up my aspirations of being a singer then.”
“At school I didn’t do very well cause I have a thing called Dyslexia, which now people seem to understand, it’s a kind of simple brain dysfunction and it means you can’t spell properly and you don’t remember things in the same way as a regular person. And when I was at school it was very controversial and people thought of it as laziness most teachers didn’t understand dyslexia. So instead of getting extra help in learning how to spell and writing they just used to keep me in at play time because they thought I was lazy so I was punished for having Dyslexia. And really that kind of set the whole theme of being at school because I was never was able to catch up. I just lied my way through school to get away with not doing homework. And it wasn’t until the last two years of school where they took me to a psychologist, a professional psychologist where they did an accurate diagnosis but of course by then it was too late so I left school really without a proper education. “
Film-maker and Executive Producer Jimmy Kay had this to say about the project, “Blaze has to be one of the most underrated front men and vocalists in Metal history. This tour documentary aims to capture the reality of the day to day excitement and grind on tour, as well as information on his time with Wolfsbane, Iron Maiden and his solo career to-date and most of all the behind the scenes look at Blaze that folks rarely get to see.”
Blaze was born 29th May 1963 in Birmingham, England. Having started his professional music career in WOLFSBANE in 1984, his career elevated to global heights when he joined IRON MAIDEN with whom he released two albums and toured worldwide between 1994and 1999.
After leaving Iron Maiden, Blaze embarked on a solo career, during which he has released eight albums including ‘Infinite Entanglement’ in 2016 and has continued to tour worldwide, collaborating with a host of talented artists and bands.
Always open to collaborating, Blaze just recently joined DISTURBED onstage at Download Festival (UK) for a rendition of ‘Baba O’Riley’ by THE WHO, was accompanied onstage in Poland by Swedish metalheads SABATON for a version of Maiden classic ‘Man On The Edge’, and has been announced as guest vocalist on the forthcoming album by former QUEENSRYCHE singer Geoff Tate.
Canada’s The Metal Voice is producing an online tour Documentary called Canadian Entanglement on former IRON MAIDEN singer Blaze Bayley on his upcoming Canadian Mini Tour. Part 1 of the multi-part series is now streaming below.
In Part 1 Blaze Bayley is at his home in the Birmingham, England preparing his luggage and documents for his travel, part one also includes commentary by Rock Author Martin Popoff and Bassist/ vocalist of Venom Inc, Tony Dolan
Film-maker and Executive Producer Jimmy Kay had this to say about the project, “Blaze has to be one of the most underrated front men and vocalists in Metal history. This tour documentary aims to capture the reciprocal love with his fans, the reality of the day to day excitement and grind on tour, as well as information on his time with Wolfsbane, Iron Maiden and his solo career to-date.”
Blaze Bayley added “I’m excited to be returning to Canada and I look forward to meeting my fans at these shows, with the opportunity also for them to be a part of the filming of this Canadian Entanglement documentary”.
Blaze was born 29th May 1963 in Birmingham, England. Having started his professional music career in WOLFSBANE in 1984, his career elevated to global heights when he joined IRON MAIDEN with whom he released two albums and toured worldwide between 1994 and 1999.
After leaving Iron Maiden, Blaze embarked on a solo career, during which he has released eight albums including ‘Infinite Entanglement’ in 2016 and has continued to tour worldwide, collaborating with a host of talented artists and bands.
Always open to collaborating, Blaze just recently joined DISTURBED onstage at Download Festival (UK) for a rendition of ‘Baba O’Riley’ by THE WHO, was accompanied onstage in Poland by Swedish metalheads SABATON for a version of Maiden classic ‘Man On The Edge’, and has been announced as guest vocalist on the forthcoming album by former QUEENSRYCHE singer Geoff Tate .
Canadian Tour Dates
Sept 21 Ottawa, Canada
Sept 22 Shawiningan, Canada
Sept 23 Quebec City. Canada
Sept 24 Montreal, Canada
IRON MAIDEN are set continue “The Book Of Souls World Tour” into 2017 with a 16 date European Tour and the first UK Tour since 2011.
APR 22 BELGIUM ANTWERP SPORTPALEIS
APR 24 GERMANY OBERHAUSEN KÖNIG-PILSENER-ARENA
APR 28 GERMANY FRANKFURT FESTHALLE
MAY 02 GERMANY HAMBURG BARCLAYCARD ARENA
MAY 04 ENGLAND NOTTINGHAM MOTORPOINT ARENA
MAY 06 IRELAND DUBLIN 3ARENA
MAY 08 ENGLAND MANCHESTER ARENA
MAY 10 ENGLAND SHEFFIELD ARENA
MAY 11 ENGLAND LEEDS FIRST DIRECT ARENA
MAY 14 ENGLAND NEWCASTLE METRO RADIO ARENA
MAY 16 SCOTLAND GLASGOW SSE HYDRO ARENA
MAY 17 SCOTLAND ABERDEEN AECC GE OIL & GAS ARENA
MAY 20 ENGLAND LIVERPOOL ECHO ARENA
MAY 21 ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM BARCLAYCARD ARENA
MAY 24 WALES CARDIFF MOTORPOINT ARENA
MAY 27 ENGLAND LONDON O2 ARENA
Tickets go on-sale Friday 30th September at 9am.
Fan Club pre-sale starts Monday.
Special guests on all the shows will be Shinedown.
Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley about singing with Geoff Tate and Tim Ripper Owens, filming his upcoming tour documentary, progress on new album and Sci-fi book and reflects on his audition with Iron Maiden
When asked about story behind the first album and how it leads into the second part and third parts of the trilogy Albums.
“The first album is the story of the main character William Black and him going on a mission into Deep Space to visit Kepler Planet. He has got to wear a special suit which he is actually physically attached to his body like armour and what he finds out is on the first album, in fact this is not the suit, that he has a machine body and human consciousness has been downloaded into a machine body and he then has to decide for himself what is it to be human and can you be a machine and call yourself human? These are all of the questions. The second and third part of the album they take place closer to the Kepler planet, he is arriving and what happens there I can’t give too much away. A thousand years have passed one of the songs on the infinite Entanglement album is “I will live for a thousand years” and we are at the end of that 1000 years as we come into the second album.”
When asked if there will be a book based on the trilogy albums
“The book is going on alongside the album and all of the ideas for the songs, the lyrics for the songs, the characters that you see, the things that the narrator says all that comes from the book that I am writing, it’s a science fiction book and story and will make the journey complete. There are things in the book that aren’t on any of the albums. Hopefully to be finished at end of 2018.”
When asked about the filming of the upcoming behind the scenes tour documentary in Canada
“A lot of people cannot believe I move so fast, one day I am in Seattle and the next I am in Wales and people still think I’m in Seattle or still in Brazil. They don’t really understand how it works to be honest I don’t really understand (laughs). And I am hoping to give fans an insight into the total thing because you never see what you get when you travel, you just upload a few photos for Facebook. Sometimes it’s just the most boring thing and sometimes the most incredible things happen and you meet the most incredible people with amazing stories. I’m hoping that that will come over on the documentary.”
When asked about what he learned about Geoff Tate and Tim Ripper Owens that he did not know before, as he has rehearsing for the upcoming Trinity Tour?
“I knew Tim before and he is such a funny guy he is just hilarious, I love his sense of humour. With Geoff I started listening to Queensryche with Operation Mindcrime and it was great to talk to him openly about some of those songs. I think one of those things that you never know and is a realty privilege is when you are close up and personal and you do a bit of rehearsing you actually get to hear the persons natural voice 100% percent no studio enhancement or tricks and you really hear that raw talent as it’s a little tingle down the spine hearing Geoff Tate singing. And singing with him was amazing and he is such a gentle person as well.”
When asked why he never sang Iron Maiden’s ‘Run to the hills’ in his time with Iron Maiden
“I thought this is really Bruce Dickinson’s hallmark song so on the first tour I didn’t think it would be a good idea for me to do that song, nothing to do with the high vocal register, just because, people would have a direct comparison. On the second tour it just never came up and I really like that song and it feels like a lost opportunity to me so on the Trinity Tour what I will be doing I will be doing my own Version of ‘Run to the Hills’ and it will be the first time I’ve done it on a tour.”
When asked when he auditioned for Iron Maiden what songs did he sing.
“There were ten of the standard songs that were always in the set list at that time. From what I can remember is Trooper, Hallowed be thy name, Number of the beast, Wrathchild, Heaven can wait, Fear of the dark, the clairvoyant and others.”
Watch the Interview Here:
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