Blaze Bayley live at Ivory Blacks

Presenting BLAZE BAYLEY - Tour of the Eagle Spirit

Wednesday 10th April 2019 Ivory Blacks
BLAZE
BAYLEY is a singer/songwriter 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 10 albums and has enjoyed an
enviable reputation as one of the hardest working artists touring
worldwide.

In 2015 Blaze celebrated the 15th anniversary of his
first solo release ‘Silicon Messiah’ and in 2016-2018 has seen a
significant resurgence of interest in his career, not least with the
release of ‘Infinite Entanglement’ – a trilogy of album releases based
on a sci-fi concept. Part I was ‘Infinite Entanglement’ released in
March 2016, Part II ‘Endure and Survive’ in March 2017 and the
concluding Part III ‘The Redemption of William Black’ was released in
March 2018.

Each of these releases was promoted with Europewide tours, plus in 2017 a tour of North America.

In
2018 Blaze received an accolade in Sweden Rock magazine where he was
voted #67 greatest all time singer. Also, amongst his summer festival
appearances this year he was proud to play Hammerfest in UK, Dong
Festival in Germany and Sabaton Open Air in Sweden. Feedback about those
performances has been resoundingly good.

Blaze tours with the
full force of metal with Chris Appleton (guitar), Martin McNee (drums)
and Karl Schramm (bass) from British metal band Absolva, who are now
established as his regular recording and touring band.

On 26th
October 2018, Blaze releases the vinyl version of ‘The Redemption of
William Black’. As with Parts I and II, this release comes in 180 gram
vinyl, with gatefold cover and printed inner sleeves. There’s also a
deluxe box designed to house the 3 LPs, together with a special limited
edition artbook.

‘The Redemption of William Black’ was recorded
at Robannas Studio in Birmingham, England. Engineered by Miguel Seco,
co-produced by Blaze himself and guitarist Chris Appleton, and mastered
by Ade Emsley (Iron Maiden re-masters). The album also features guest
vocals from Chris Jericho (Fozzy / WWE) and Luke Appleton (Iced Earth /
Absolva). Stunning artwork is supplied by Akirant Illustration (Star
Wars / Iron Maiden).

After completing the second leg of his 2018
full metal tour in September (Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands,
UK), Blaze releases a new classical acoustic album entitled ‘December
Wind’, co-written with classical acoustic guitarist Thomas Zwijsen who
is known for his arrangements of famous rock and metal songs performed
in a classical style. This album was again co-produced with Chris
Appleton and mastered by Ade Emsley. The album also features a version
of ‘2AM’ from the X-Factor album of Blaze’s Maiden era. Additional
instrumentation comes from Anne Bakker on violin. The album will also
carry as bonus tracks the 5 songs previously released as the ‘Russian
Holiday’ acoustic album, including a version of Iron Maiden’s ‘Sign of
the Cross’ again from Blaze’s era with Maiden.

‘December Wind’ is earmarked for an official release date 9th November and a tour (12
dates) is in course of being confirmed now for Switzerland, Italy, Czech
Republic and Poland. Thomas Zwijsen plays classical guitar on this tour
and is joined by violinist Anne Bakker in Switzerland and Italy.

Looking ahead to 2019 Blaze is planning to continue the full metal world tour
with a trip to Latin America in January, Europe in February/March and
North America in April/May, as well as summer festivals with quite a few
already waiting to be announced.

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£12.50 adv

Doors 7pm

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