In the week that Bruce Dickinson starts his hugely-anticipated European tour in support of his brand new solo album The Mandrake Project with a string of UK headline shows, the Iron Maiden frontman is delighted to be announced as Patron of The Blake Cottage Trust. Having been a life-long devotee of the lauded visionary, artist and poet William Blake, Bruce has frequently referenced Blake’s hugely influential works within his own creative output, including extensively on The Mandrake Project itself. In fact the video for his recent single ‘Rain On The Graves’ references Blake in many different ways, from the mystical and arcane through to the more prosaic image of Bruce uncovering a replica of Blake’s grave at the end. The Blake Cottage Trust owns William Blake’s only surviving house, in Felpham on the Sussex Coast, where William and his wife Catherine lived between 1800 and 1803. It was in the Cottage that he wrote the words to what we now know as the hymn Jerusalem. William’s...
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