Former MOTORHEAD and current SCORPIONS drummer Mikkey Dee has announced more than a dozen European shows for 2026 celebrating the music of MOTORHEAD -- and the response from fans has been nothing short of overwhelming. Performing with THE DRIPPERS members Viktor Skatt on bass and vocals and Stig William Rickard on guitar, Dee has been selling out venues almost everywhere he plays, a powerful testament to the enduring and seemingly inexhaustible appeal of Lemmy Kilmister's musical legacy more than a decade after his passing.
Dee was a MOTORHEAD member for nearly 25 years, joining the band in 1992 following the departure of Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor and remaining at the drum throne until the band was permanently disbanded following Lemmy's death on December 28, 2015 -- just four days after the iconic frontman's 70th birthday. During that extraordinary quarter-century tenure, Dee appeared on some of MOTORHEAD's most acclaimed later-era albums, including "Bastards," "Sacrifice," "Overnight Sensation," "We Are Motorhead," "Inferno," "Kiss Of Death," "The World Is Yours," "Aftershock," and their final studio record "Bad Magic" -- an album whose closing track, a cover of ROLLING STONES' "Sympathy For The Devil," proved to be Lemmy's last recorded vocal.
Despite the overwhelming demand for additional dates and fan petitions for a full world tour, Dee insists these are tribute shows rather than an official MOTORHEAD tour. "I just wanna keep it a show here and there," he said, though the pressure to expand continues to mount. "We're not going out as MOTORHEAD." The shows are carefully scheduled during brief breaks from his duties with SCORPIONS, where Dee became a permanent member in 2016 following the departure of longtime drummer James Kottak.
For fans who will never get to experience MOTORHEAD live again, these shows offer the closest thing humanly possible -- performed by a musician who lived and breathed that music for a quarter century and brings an authentic, deeply personal connection to every note. The shows have been unanimously praised for their raw energy and faithful reproduction of MOTORHEAD's legendary no-frills, full-throttle approach to rock and roll.