MOTÖRHEAD - New Interview With Lemmy: The Movie Creators Available
February 7, 2010, 14 years ago
Nathan Bevan from Walesonline.co.uk is reporting:
A brand new film about heavy metal wildman Lemmy promises to show the Anglesey-raised rocker like we’ve never seen him before – warts and all.
The infamous, hard-drinking MOTÖRHEAD singer, who spent his formative years living with his mum near the tiny village of Benllech, will see his life story played out on the big screen in Lemmy: The Movie, which gets its world premiere at the South By Southwest music festival in Texas next month.
But, as its New York-based directors Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski told Wales On Sunday, spending three years tracking their reticent star around the world trying to get him to drop his guard was no easy task.
“Shooting Lemmy is like filming dangerous wildlife,” laughed Greg.“He never does what you expect him to do, and he never does anything you want him to do.”
And, with a fearsome reputation for being a tough interviewee who doesn’t suffer fools gladly, it took a while for the 64-year-old head-banging vicar’s son – real name Ian Kilmister – to finally accept them into the notoriously tight-knit Motörhead camp.
“Trust me, we heard the words, ‘Fuck off’ on more than a few occasions during our time with Lem,” said Greg“That and ‘Oh, here they come, it’s the vidiots’!”
But Greg added that was only to be expected from a man who’d literally seen and done it all and who once professed that if he moved next door to you, your lawn would die.
“You find out pretty quick that the guys in the band have put up this hard shell around them that’s almost impenetrable,” he said.“It got built up a long time ago no one really gets over it. Those inside it are family, outside is everyone else.”
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