Stoke-On-Trent City Council to erect statues of Slash and Lemmy?

Members of Stoke-On-Trent City Council's Economic Development Overview And Scrutiny Committee will debate plans to erect statues of local musicians Slash and Lemmy next week.

The plans came to the attention of the committee after local campaigners presented the council with a petition signed by 318 people calling for a permanent monument to honour the Motorhead frontman and the former Guns N' Roses guitarist.

Lemmy was born and raised in the Burslem area of the city while Slash, who was born in London, lived in Stoke-On-Trent until he was six.

A spokesman for the campaigners told ThisIsStaffordshire.co.uk: "We firmly believe it could be a landmark that is really quite individual and exclusive to the area, and would definitely be a popular attraction for fans of rock music worldwide."

However a representative for the Economic Development Overview And Scrutiny Committee said that while they "would work with the campaigners, it is unlikely that they will be able to offer any funding for the project."

Tags: Guns N' Roses, Motorhead, Slash, Velvet Revolver

Posted by Dan at 02:58PM | January 14, 2011

Yay....

Posted by Joe | January 14, 2011 5:15 PM | Reply to this

Hah, it said 'erect'. :)

Posted by Ellie | January 14, 2011 5:22 PM | Reply to this

Immature -.- lol :]

Posted by Sam | January 14, 2011 5:29 PM | Reply to this

Hmmm yes people worldwide are going to come all the way to England, go to Stoke, JUST for a statue that isnt like centemental. Yeah

Posted by Sam | January 14, 2011 5:31 PM | Reply to this

haha brilliant, Slash I'm too sure about but a statue of Lemmy would be epic. The statue should be placed in Greece with all the Greek god statues. ZEUS, HADES, VENUS and LEMMY.

Posted by Ben | January 15, 2011 2:00 PM | Reply to this

Excellent, I live in Stoke, that'll be soo awsome lol xD

Posted by Hannah | January 16, 2011 2:00 PM | Reply to this

i should think so too,mind you...i live in stoke on trent,and seeing is believing with stoke council,weve been waiting for a new bus station for 20years...they like to waste our money on metal trees and real nasty sculptures...we shall see if this is for filled...

Posted by Dave | January 16, 2011 2:11 PM | Reply to this

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Posted by Dave | January 16, 2011 2:13 PM | Reply to this

they sul do it putting up statues of two roc gods in there home town will bring tourists to stoke

Posted by tim | January 16, 2011 5:35 PM | Reply to this

it shuld goahead of the two rock gode

Posted by daniel | January 16, 2011 7:33 PM | Reply to this

i live in stoke and i think slash is amazing, but let's be serious there are so many other things we could be spending money on. yeah slash was here untill he was 6? he didn't play guitar when he was that age. he was just a normal 6 year old. so unless they are making one of him when he was 6 this is retarded. i think this is called "name dropping" he hasn't done anything for stoke so why not make a statue for someone that has?

Posted by callum | January 23, 2011 5:17 PM | Reply to this