OFF:motorhead/lem walks out of bbc/expanded no sleep til h'smith re-issue

[Robert C. Mayo]

As reported by music365, MOTORHEAD frontman Lemmy stormed out of a TV
studio
recently just minutes before a live interview - because producers asked
him
to put his cigarette out. Lemmy had sparked up a snout while waiting to
be
interviewed on the BBC Choice nightly arts and entertainment magazine
Liquid
News, but got the hump when he was politely asked to extinguish the tab
in
the non-smoking studio. A BBC spokesman confirmed that Lemmy was a
no-show,
but added that the man who gave us 'Ace Of Spades' didn't leave the
building
immediately - he found time to stop off in the hospitality suite to chug
the
best part of a bottle of Jack Daniels. The fuming Lemmy was due to
appear on
Liquid News to promote Motorhead's new single 'God Save The Queen'.

MOTORHEAD's Bomber album will be available on July 24th as a deluxe
limited
edition blue vinyl LP...Ace Of Spades, Bomber, and Overkill, scheduled
to be
released this year in digi-pak format, have been pushed back for release
in
2001. This year will see the band release a Best Of collection as well
as a
Rarities CD and an A/B sides album through Castle Music America. Also
forthcoming from Motorhead is an expanded double CD version of No Sleep
Till
Hammersmith and coloured vinyl versions of Ace Of Spades and Overkill.