Urn with Lemmy's ashes to be displayed at festival

An urn containing the ashes of Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister will go on display at a festival this summer.

The band announced some of Lemmy's ashes will be housed at heavy metal festival Bloodstock, at Catton Park in Derbyshire.

Once the festival comes to an end in August, it will move to Nottingham music venue Rock City, where the band performed 10 shows between 1987 and 2006.

Rock City bosses said they were "honoured" to house the bust.

Bloodstock is one of a handful of places globally to house the ashes of the Ace of Spades singer, who was originally from Burslem in Stoke-on-Trent and died in 2015.

The installation will initially be held in the RAM Gallery at Bloodstock.

Motörhead's manager, Todd Singerman, said: "Bloodstock has always been a special place for Motörhead and for Lemmy. The people and the energy matched Lemmy's values perfectly."

Bloodstock's Vicky Hungerford said organisers were "humbled and honoured" to display the urn.

"Lemmy holds a very special place in everybody's heart, but to myself and my husband he was the reason we met and fell in love," she said.

The bust will return each year to its "primary home" at Bloodstock, organisers added.

In a statement, Rock City said: "Tying in such a figurehead of rock with our venue's history is fitting and we're delighted the Bloodstock team asked us to give a home to the Lemmy bust between his annual pilgrimage back to their festival each year."

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