Fan to meet rock hero Lemmy
A student who landed a surprise role in a film about Motorhead frontman Lemmy will get to meet his idol this weekend.
The Motorhead lead singer, who spent his childhood on Anglesey and later worked in Llandudno Junction's Hotpoint factory, will be at Llandudno's Venue Cymru on Saturday on the band's current UK tour.
Tom Holmes, a former pupil at Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones, Amlwch, owes his backstage pass to the American makers of the film Lemmy, who turned up at his - and Lemmy's - old school one day last year.
Producers Wes Orshoski and Greg Oliver visited the school on the off chance of grabbing some footage of modern-day pupils.
"Not only did we get those shots, but we were incredibly blessed that the headmaster let us interview a few students about what they had heard about Lemmy growing up there," said Wes.
"Then one student, Tom, sat down and started playing Lemmy's most famous song, Ace of Spades, on a school piano, as his classmates sang along.
"It made for one of our favourite moments in the film, and Tom has become a friend."
When Tom heard there was a film crew in school, he was only too happy to tell them about is long-standing love of the metal band.
"I sat at the piano for a laugh and they recorded it," he said. "It's extremely embarrassing because I'm a terrible impersonator!
"I did mention, though, that if I ever met Lemmy I'd have to get him to sign my arm and I'd get it tattooed."
So in a few days' time, with the help of his mother who's a tattoo artist, Tom hopes to have a permanent reminder of his meeting with the rock star.
"My mum has always been a Motorhead fan," Tom added. "And 20 years ago she painted the Overkill logo on the back of her leather jacket, so I'm going to take that to be signed, too."
Tom was aware before the documentary makers came to town that Lemmy had been a pupil at his school.
"I heard he got kicked out though, because of playing the guitar in the corridors, which I knew wasn't true because I use to play there all the time and never got into trouble!
"I think the real reason he was expelled was something like he didn't get on with one of the teachers."
On Saturday, Tom will get the chance to ask the man himself.
Lemmy - the Movie has already been shown at film festivals and will be on limited release from December. A DVD will be released in early 2011.
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Lemmy see now...
Lemmy see now...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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"Llandudno Junction"...Good Lord, if you can't have a dirty weekend there - or even a quick knee trembler behind the never-emptied dustbins - there's no hope for Britain, I say.
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Llandudno Junction as imortalised in the famous song..
I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Llandudno
Out on a windy common
That night I ain’t forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said I may be
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The railway arms we’re missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up
I got a job with stanley
He said I’d come in handy
And started me on monday
So I had a bath on sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she’d seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her
I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her
This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another
And now she’s two years older
Her mother’s with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling
Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there’s something missing
I’d beg for some forgiveness
But begging’s not my business
And she won’t write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it’s my assumption
I’m really up Llandudno junction
I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Llandudno
Out on a windy common
That night I ain’t forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said I may be
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The railway arms we’re missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up
I got a job with stanley
He said I’d come in handy
And started me on monday
So I had a bath on sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she’d seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her
I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her
This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another
And now she’s two years older
Her mother’s with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling
Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there’s something missing
I’d beg for some forgiveness
But begging’s not my business
And she won’t write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it’s my assumption
I’m really up Llandudno junction
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”