A procession of 55 Harley-Davidson riders helped transport a bust containing the ashes of Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister to the Rock City music venue in Nottingham, UK, on Monday (August 12).
The bikers set off from the finish of the Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park in Derbyshire, for about an hour's drive, escorting a lorry containing the bust.
Upon arrival at Rock City, a ceremony was held to embed the bust into a lavish niche in the venue's brick wall alongside a plaque bearing Lemmy's name that reads “Ace of Spades.” The bust will remain on display year-round at Rock City, where Motörhead played 10 shows between 1987 and 2006, and will return to the Bloodstock festival site each August.
“It’s been a very emotional weekend for everyone involved in the ‘Lemmy Forever’ tribute at Bloodstock,” said festival co-director Vicky Hungerford (via Charlatan)“Today’s farewell with 55 Harley Davidsons taking over Rock City on the Bloodstock truck was the end of a magnificent weekend of tributes to our rock god Lem.”
The bust was part of an installation dedicated to Lemmy at Bloodstock, which included a recreation of his dressing room, with personal items and artefacts. In the words of Motörhead manager Todd Singerman, the Derbyshire festival was always “a special place for Motörhead and for Lemmy”.
“The people and the energy were a perfect match for Lemmy's values,” Singerman said in a statement in March.[Festival organizers] Alan [Hicks] “And Vicky was also great friends and basically family to Lemmy, as he was the reason they got together in the first place. This is definitely a fitting honour in the continuing series of enshrinements of Lemmy's ashes in his most beloved places.”
Lemmy's ashes have been scattered everywhere, from his favourite Los Angeles haunt, the Rainbow Bar & Grill, to Hellfest in France, where they are enshrined in a huge statue. Metallica's James Hetfield even has a Motörhead tattoo inked with Lemmy's ashes.
Below you can see images and photographs of the motorcycle procession from Bloodstock and the award ceremony at Rock City.
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