{"id":767680,"date":"2026-09-11T21:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767680\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:36:13","slug":"im-lying-in-a-pool-of-blood-vomit-glass-and-snot-and-i-feel-this-acrid-breath-close-to-my-face-and-its-lemmy-going-youre-a-lightweight-youll-never-make-it-day-drinking-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767680\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m lying in a pool of blood, vomit, glass and snot, and I feel this acrid breath close to my face, and it’s Lemmy going, You\u2019re a lightweight, you\u2019ll never make it.” Day-drinking with Motorhead legend Lemmy was not for the faint-hearted"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s well-known that late Mot\u00f6rhead legend Lemmy Kilmister was fond of an alcoholic tipple, and was a generous host when inviting fans, friends, and peers to join him for a celebratory drink.<\/p>\n

But as Ricky Warwick, frontman of The Almighty<\/a> and Black Star Riders<\/a>, and a solo artist in his own right, recalls in the new issue of Classic Rock magazine<\/a>, trying to keep pace with the indomitable rock ‘n’ roll hero could be a challenging, and indeed potentially hazardous, pursuit.<\/p>\n

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When The Almighty first burst onto the UK music scene at the tail end of the 1980s, Ricky Warwick made no secret of the fact that Mot\u00f6rhead were one of the band’s key influences, and that Lemmy was one of his heroes. As it turned out, Lemmy was a fan of The Almighty too.<\/p>\n

“When we started coming to London we\u2019d bump into Lemmy in places where he hung out, like the St. Moritz club [in Soho],” Warwick recalls. “He was brilliant with me straight off the bat, very friendly, very funny, and he always offered loads of advice.”<\/p>\n

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In 1991, The Almighty were offered the opportunity to support Mot\u00f6rhead on their 1916 album tour, which Warwick recalls being “huge” for his band. Ahead of that tour, both Mot\u00f6rhead and The Almighty were booked play a music conference in Los Angeles called the Foundations Forum, and Lemmy invited Warwick to hang out whenever he got to LA.<\/p>\n

“So we arrived at the hotel,” Warwick tells Classic Rock, “and Lemmy had left a note for me, saying: ‘I\u2019m in room blah blah blah, come up.’ It\u2019s, like, three in the afternoon, and I\u2019m jet-lagged to fuck, but I knock on this door, and there\u2019s a full-on party going on.<\/p>\n

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“Through the smoke I see Lemmy in his denim cut-off, his tight denim shorts and a cowboy hat. They\u2019d just finished mixing 1916, so he sat me down, racked me out the biggest fucking tramline of whatever the fuck it was, poured me a pint of Jack Daniel\u2019s and Coke, put headphones on me, and goes: ‘Listen to this’.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m buzzing, I\u2019ve got the new Mot\u00f6rhead blasting, and Lemmy keeps topping up my glass. I\u2019m trying to be cool, but as it\u2019s coming to the end of the album, the room is spinning, and I\u2019m thinking, Fuck, I\u2019m in a bad way here, this isn\u2019t good.”<\/p>\n

What happened next makes for painful reading, even if Warwick is laughing as he shares the memory.<\/p>\n

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“So I get up to tell Lemmy what I think of the album,” he continues, “and my legs just go, I fall flat on my face on the floor, the pint glass shatters and cuts my fucking eyebrow when I land on it, and I throw up at the same time. <\/p>\n

“So I’m fucking lying there in a pool of blood, and vomit, and glass, and snot, and then I feel this acrid breath close to my face, and it\u2019s Lemmy going, ‘Warwick, you\u2019re a fucking lightweight, you\u2019ll never make it’.”<\/p>\n

Happily, losing face in front of Lemmy didn’t ruin Warwick’s friendship with the great man.<\/p>\n

“We did the 1916 tour, and we couldn\u2019t have been treated better,” he recalls. “Lemmy and all the guys in Mot\u00f6rhead were just fantastic, and I miss them a lot.”<\/p>\n

You can read the interview in full in the new issue of Classic Rock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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