MOTÖRHEAD - Motörhead 2LP (PREORDER)

NB! This is a preorder item - Releasedate is MARCH 28th 2025

The first of the new wave of indie labels in the mid-70s was Chiswick Records of Camden Town, a centre of Irish entertainment in North London. Ted Carroll had been running the Rock On market stall in Golborne Rd since 1971 and had expanded his empire with a stall in Soho and then a proper retail outlet in N5. Roger Armstrong ran the Soho location and had aspirations to produce records. Eventually the two of them turned up North London’s finest Polish, New Zealand, American, English R&B outfit who were renamed the Count Bishops and cut a hot and sweaty EP on a very hot and sweaty summer evening in Stoke Newington. And so a label was born. Ted and Roger soon recruited third partner Trevor Churchill who had real record company experience in abundance. Through Trevor’s contacts, the great British rock’n’roll record ‘Brand New Cadillac’ was licensed from EMI and garnered a lot of radio play.

To kick off Ace Records 50th Anniversary we are delighted to offer up a 2LP version of one of the most seminal and important Heavy Metal albums of all time.

Funded by and released on Chiswick Records in 1977, Motörhead’s debut album was a sonic blister of epic proportions capturing the musical lighting generated by Lemmy (bass/vocals), Phil Taylor (drums) and Eddie Clarke (guitar).

This 2-LP set not only offers up this classic first album featuring tracks like ‘White Line Fever’, ‘Violator’ and ‘Keep Us On The Road’ but also collates together, on sides three and four, ‘City Kids’ the “Beer Drinkers EP” as well as different mixed and alternative versions of ear-bleeding classics like ‘Motörhead’, ‘The Watcher’ and ‘Keep Us On The Road’.

The album cover features a silver hot foil replication Joe Petagno’s original Motörhead logo in all its glory. Sleeve notes are by Ted Carroll who takes the reader through the story of how Chiswick Records managed to scrape together the money to fund the recording and write themselves and Motörhead into rock and roll history.

ACE RECORDS/ CHISWICK RECORDS 2025