A convoy of 55 Harley Davidson bikers have escorted a bust of Lemmy‘s ashes to Nottingham Rock City this week. Check out footage of the moment below.
The bikers rode out from the completion of the Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Derbyshire, and drove for about an hour alongside a truck containing the bust to the Nottingham music venue on Monday (August 12).
As it arrived, a ceremony was held where the bust was embedded into an alcove in the venue’s brick wall. It was placed next to an ‘Ace Of Spades’ plaque, which had the Motörhead frontman’s name engraved on it.
It is set to remain there throughout the remainder of the year, and return each year to the grounds of Bloodstock as the festival takes place every August. The Nottingham venue has significant meaning when it comes to Lemmy, as his band played 10 shows at the space between 1987 and 2006.
“It’s been a very emotional weekend for all involved in the ‘Lemmy Forever’ tribute at Bloodstock,” said Vicky Hungerford, Bloodstock co-director (via Blabbermouth). “The send-off today with 55 Harley Davidsons taking the bust to Rock City in the Bloodstock truck was the finale to a superb weekend of tributes to our rock god Lem.”
The iconic frontman, who is considered to be one of the most influential figures in metal history, died in December 2015 at the age of 70, shortly after learning he had been diagnosed with cancer.
Discussing how the bust was part of a Lemmy installation at the 2024 festival, Motörhead manager Todd Singerman said that the Derbyshire festival was always a “special place” for both the band and the frontman.
“The people and the energy matched Lemmy’s values perfectly,” he said in March (via Consequence). “[Festival organisers] Alan [Hicks] and Vicky were also great friends and basically family of Lemmy, as he was the reason that they originally got together. This is definitely a fitting honour in the continuing series of enshrinements of Lemmy’s ashes in his most loved places.”
Bikers along with Bloodstock Festival crew escort Lemmy's ashes to ROCK CITY in Nottingham.
Posted by Official Motörhead on Monday, August 12, 2024
The installation at this year’s Bloodstock also saw the musician’s dressing room meticulously recreated, complete with various personal items and artefacts.
Last summer, even more of Lemmy’s ashes were scattered in the mud at Germany’s Wacken Open Air festival, following Motörhead playing countless shows there. Metallica’s James Hetfield has even had some of the ashes incorporated into a spade tattoo on his middle finger.
In February, it was confirmed that plans to erect a statue of the Motörhead frontman in the town where he was born had been approved by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
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