Armed with Madness launch events

Our new book Armed with Madness: the Surreal Leonora Carrington will be published by Self Made Hero in the UK in mid May (25th April in USA). Bryan and I will be in London to talk about it at a public event at the Cartoon Museum on Friday 12th May at 6pm. Do come along if you can! Tickets are £10 and available from the Museum here. The following day we will be at a signing session in Gosh! from 1-2pm. Later in the month we’ll be at a launch event hosted by Lancaster University at the Storey in Lancaster on 23rd May at 7.30pm. The event is free but ticketed via Eventbrite. Meanwhile, check out the stunning trailer below (it’s less than 2 minutes long). It was directed and edited by designer Jordan Smith and features music composed by Gary Lloyd. Jordan has collaborated with Bryan before, notably producing the cover to Alice in Sunderland, based on Bryan’s pencil rough. Gary, who in the past has worked on projects with Alan Moore and Iain Banks, composed the music for the modern dance performance piece When You Light a Candle You Also Cast a Shadow, featuring a specially commissioned poetry cycle that I wrote for them. The trailer soundtrack includes the fine voice of soprano Isabelle Mohan and a specially recorded cameo by composer-musician Gary Carpenter playing the same Nordic Lyre that he used for Willow’s Song in the film The Wicker Man (1973). Amazing!