Single out this month

Russell Brand is launching a rock career on the back of his latest movie.

The comic is releasing a single later this month from his new film Forgetting Sarah Marshall – backed by a media campaign to get it to No 1.

In the film he plays Aldous Snow, the spoiled and sex-crazed lead singer of British indie band Infant Sorrow, named after a William Blake poem.

As part of the marketing campaign, the distributors have set up a MySpace page for the band, and been distributing a viral video of ‘Snow’ getting annoyed on a children’s TV show.

On April 21, following pressure from Brand’s fans, the innuendo-laden song Inside Of You, will be released on Universal Music. The Sun newspaper has also latched on to the online campaigns backing the single, and has started to promote the release.

Here is the video:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is released on April 25.

Meanwhile, clothes from the film have just been sold on eBay for charity, raising £550.

Published: 8 Apr 2008