"He became a father figure to me at a time when I might have ended up in the morgue": Lemmy's personal assistant looks back at six years on the road with the Motörhead legend

Lemmy studio portrait.

I was Lemmy’s personal assistant and Motörhead road manager for six years… and I lived to tell the tale! From 2005, I spent 24 hours a day with Lem and the band for 11 months of each year. I loved every moment, the ups and the downs. No two days were alike. Lemmy was so funny and intelligent. He became a father figure to me – albeit a pretty maniacal father figure! – at a time when I might have ended up in the morgue. He took me under his wing.

I got lucky. I had been working with Nick Oliveri from Queens Of The Stone Age when they supported Motörhead, and we kind of clicked. When the job was offered to me, I had a flashback to seeing Motörhead on The Young Ones and thinking: ‘Fuck me, that’s a band’.