Motorhead
News: Motorhead Special 40th Anniversary Editions Of No Sleep‘ Til Hammersmith
Life on the road isn’t all glamour and rock’n’roll excess and Motörhead’s punishing tour schedule in 1981 took them all over the globe as they rode high on the success of Ace Of Spades. One integral part of the daily grind on the road is the sound check, although very little of it is ever seen …
NEWS: MOTORHEAD ALBUM ACE OF SPADES GETS EXCITING 40th ANNIVERSARY REBIRTH
Upon its release in 1980, the ‘Ace Of Spades’ album was nothing short of a game changer for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a …
MOTÖRHEAD ANNOUNCE DELUXE COLLECTOR’S BOX-SET + REISSUES OF OVERKILL AND BOMBER
After several years of planning, Motörhead and BMG are delighted to announce the start of an exciting, extensive and detailed ultra-fan-friendly release programme spanning the band’s career from the 70s, ‘80’s, 90’s, and beyond! Kicking things off with the ‘Motörhead ‘79’ campaign, it celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the incredible Overkill, and Bomber albums with fantastic new deluxe editions, both …
Album Review: Various Artists – 1977 The year that punk broke
New 3 CD Punk Box Set from Cherry Red the perfect introduction if you ever needed one. There has been some very good Punk box sets in recent years, and although Cherry Red have produced a few of them, this one far exceed the others in terms of quality and quantity of the better releases …
A Buyers Guide to 80s Live Albums
Although the heyday of the live rock album was the late 60s to the late 70s, there have been many live albums released since then that have captured the public’s imagination, topped the chats, or stood out as absolutely crucial releases within an act’s discography. Here then is the second instalment of what we hope …
News: Motorhead to release cover of David Bowie’s Heroes for record store day
On April 21st – aka Record Store Day – Motörhead will be issuing a 7” picture disc of their runaway hit cover version of David Bowie’s “Heroes”, with the art featuring a new “sketch” take on the classic war-pig. The flip-side features “Heroes (the Wacken Family Choir Mix)” with previously unheard audio of the crowd at 2017’s Wacken Festival singing along to the single …
Obituary: Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke dies at 67
And so the so-called classic trio is no more. The last remaining member of iconic heavy metal band Motörhead best known line up, ‘fast’ Eddie Clarke has died, aged 67. He was being treated in hospital for pneumonia and was confirmed by the band’s manager Todd Singerman. It follows the death of Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister …
Classic Album: Motorhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith
Black clad, rickenbecker-bass wielding, rock and roll enthusiast Lemmy spent much of his post-Hawkwind career fronting Motorhead, a band that could play a range of slow, medium and fast-paced numbers, as long as they were loud. No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith was a well-received live album which cast a long, often mutton-chopped shadow over the band’s …
News: Motorhead’s Lemmy Dies Age 70
Ian Fraser Kilmister, commonly known as “Lemmy” has died aged 70. The news was confirmed by Eddie Trunk, an American radio personality. Lemmy had recently celebrated his 70th birthday on Christmas Eve. Ozzy Osbourne tweeted “Lost one of my best friends, Lemmy, today. He will be sadly missed. He was a warrior and a legend. …
News: RIP – Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor
Ex-Motörhead sticksman, Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor, has died aged 61. Originally from Chesterfield, Taylor joined the London metal band in 1975, not long after its conception. Alongside Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister and Larry Wallis, Taylor played with the band for a year before guitarist Wallis was fired, to be replaced by Eddie ‘Fast’ Clarke. Following this, …