A procession of 55 Harley-Davidson bikers helped transport a bust containing the ashes of Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister to the Nottingham, UK music venue Rock Metropolis on Monday (August twelfth).
The bikers rode out from the completion of the Bloodstock Open Air competition at Catton Park in Derbyshire for about an hour’s drive, escorting a truck containing the bust.
Upon arriving at Rock Metropolis, a ceremony was held to embed the bust in a lavish alcove within the venue’s brick wall alongside an “Ace of Spades” plaque bearing Lemmy’s title. The bust will stay on show all year long at Rock Metropolis — the place Motörhead performed 10 reveals between 1987 and 2006 — and return to the Bloodstock competition grounds every August.
“It’s been a really emotional weekend for all concerned within the ‘Lemmy Endlessly’ tribute at Bloodstock,” stated competition co-director Vicky Hungerford (by way of Blabbermouth). “The send-off at this time with 55 Harley Davidsons taking the bust to Rock Metropolis within the Bloodstock truck was the finale to an excellent weekend of tributes to our rock god Lem.”
The bust was a part of a full-on Lemmy set up at Bloodstock, which included a recreation of his dressing room, full with private objects and artifacts. Within the phrases of Motörhead supervisor Todd Singerman, the competition in Derbyshire was at all times “a particular place for Motörhead and for Lemmy.”
“The folks and the power matched Lemmy’s values completely,” Singerman had stated in an announcement in March. “[Festival organizers] Alan [Hicks] and Vicky have been additionally nice mates and principally household of Lemmy, as he was the rationale that they initially acquired collectively. That is undoubtedly a becoming honor within the persevering with sequence of enshrinements of Lemmy’s ashes in his most cherished locations.”
The ashes of Lemmy have now been unfold far and large, from his favourite LA hang-out, the Rainbow Bar & Grill, to Hellfest in France, the place they’re enshrined in an enormous statue. Metallica’s James Hetfield even has a Motörhead tattoo with ink containing Lemmy’s ashes.
Beneath you may try footage and images of the bike procession from Bloodstock and the handover ceremony at Rock Metropolis.