The October 14, 2020 "Metal Hammer has four variations of an "Ace Of Spades" picture Disc. Containing a version of "Ace of Spades" b/w a live version of "We Are the Road Crew.".
This isn't the first time that Metal Hammer has putout a motorhead single: they've done it before. On the December 12, 2019 issue, which features a 7" of "Overkill": recorded in Stratsbuorg , France in 1980 on the "Ace of Spades" tour. And "Bomber" recorded live in Bohn, Germany 1996. Available in black or red vinyl.
| The content in these boxes varies, apparently Bronze tended to put in whatever was lying around. The front cover of the box is black with the Motorhead logo in silver. Here is an example of the content in one box: NSTH LP, European tour '81 Sweatshirt, 3 b+w press photos , a biography & press release plus some photocopied reviews, an interview tape, and two colour slides from AOS LP. Another copy had 7 pages interview, 3 pages biography, 1 page discography, interview cassette, 2 black and white photos, oversized playing card, 2 color slides, the 1st video release, AOS lp and St Valentine's 10" I've heard others had the 1st video release, and/or a tin of Motorhead beer (!) in them, some had the AOS LP instead of the NSTH LP, and not all had the Sweatshirt, the slides or the tape. I suppose they were distributed not only in UK but also outside of the UK. It would be interesting to know how many that were made. A few of them most likely have been split and all that remains is the box itself.In February 2010 Ketil Svendsen wrote about his copy and showed a lot of pictures. He found it in a basement based second hand record store in the early 90s. It included everything except for the beer can. Ketil thinks that his box stems from Motorheads February 23rd 1981 visit to Oslo, as it contains some press information in Norwegian. In Norway promoter Arne “BlÃ¥ ballong” Bendixen was the licensee of Bronze. He also lists the complete content: 1 Overkill LP 1 Bomber LP 1 Ace of Spades LP 1 St Valentines Day Massacre 10? EP 1 black Sweat-shirt, with discrete silver logo and “Europe 1981?. Size “S”. 2 B/W photos 190×200 mm, both Ace of Spades themed 2 large format colour slides, one Ace of Spades themed, one casual 1 over-sized Ace of Spades playing card, 210×135 mm, silver cardboard, with band biography on the flip side. 1 stenciled translation of above into norwegian. Light yellow paper. 1 stenciled discography, singles and albums, per country. White paper. 1 Bronze official “NEWS” sheet: “stop press”, stating “St Valentines Day Massacre” had reached #15 in the UK top 75 singles chart. 1 press info sheet, 2 pages, on the purpose of the “Motorhead Week” promo campaign the last half of february 1980. 1 press info sheet on chart positions 1 VHS promo video, with the usual round-up of lip-sync’d extravaganza. Black cover with silver logo. 1 interview cassette, with all questions silenced out, ready for any local “interviewer’s” 15 minutes of glory. Lemmy jokes about Rockin’ Vickers and mentions Hawkwind, and how he “wanted to be the MC5?. Black cover with silver logo. 1 14 stenciled pages of transcribed interview from above cassette. 1 issue of UK music paper SOUNDS, dated February 21 1981. 1 issue of Norwegian music paper Nye Takter, dated March 18 1981 – post campaign. The two paged press info sheet give some clue to both the campaign and the content of this box: The promotion dates that made up “Motorhead Week” were February 17th to 27th, starting with Brussels, two days in Barcelona, Oslo/Stockholm, Hamburg/Munich, two days in Madrid and finally Milan. Climate refugees? They certainly didn’t waste any time where the sun didn’t shine. The 3rd of March they were off on a sixteen day French tour. According to the press info sheet, the following items were to be found - but the content seem to have varied: The “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” EP (recorded with Girlschool) A V.H.S. video featuring Motorhead in concert A Motorhead interview cassette A Motorhead Sweat-shirt Colour and black & white photos of the band A Biography on the reverse of a 12 inch square “Ace of Spades” playing card A Discography with details of British single and LP chart success A can of Motorhead beer – Carlsberg Special Brew In September 2011 another copy was sold on German Ebay. The content was listed as "LP Ace of Spades , 10" Motörhead/Girlschool : St. Valentines Day Massacre , Zeitung "Sounds" vom 21. Februar 1981 , einige Seiten Bronze-info zu Motörhead , grosse Spielkarte mit Logo , 2 grosse Motörhead-Fotos , 2 Dias mit Bandfoto , VHS-Kassette Live 1981 und eine Audio-Kassette mit Interview 1981". |
