Mötley Crüe Announce Virtual Watch Party For Netflix's The Dirt

A huge watching party for Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt has been announced, with both actors from the film and members of the band participating.

The event will be taking place virtually across the globe, with the idea being that everyone starts watching the Netflix biopic at the same time, and can interact with those involved in it as they go. Members of Mötley Crüe and the actors will comment and chat along through Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #StayHomeSweetHome.

The watch party will be kicking off at midnight UK time on Friday (May 15).

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Discussing The Dirt and how Mötley Crüe are portrayed in it, Nikki Sixx told Kerrang! last year, “I mean there is some behavioural stuff in there that is just dumb. We were stubborn and determined and wild as fuck, and there was nothing out there that was like us. We could do anything that we wanted to, because we were the new thing that was happening. It was the lifestyle – it was sex and drugs and musicianship and songwriting. It was a different time. We left to go on tour with Ozzy [Osbourne, in the U.S. in 1984] and we really never came home. And when we did come home we were in the studio. We did a cover of a Brownsville Station song [Smokin’ In The Boys Room] and Home Sweet Home, which were all over MTV, then we were out playing in arenas, and sometimes in stadiums.

“People ask us about the Sunset Strip scene, and the truth is that we really didn’t know what was happening because we were kind of gone. I don’t mean any offence to the bands who were there, but to me they just seemed very samey. They gave raw, dirty rock’n’roll a bad name. And we didn’t want to be a part of that. When people say, ‘Oh, those guys were assholes, they didn’t really play fair with others,’ well, the reason for that is because we didn’t really want to play fair with others. And I know that makes me sound like an asshole, but at least I own it.”

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