>>Motorhead Now they are REALLY scary, volume wise.

Having sat through half a Motorhead gig at the Meltdown Festival at the Royal Festival Hall a couple of years ago (freebie tickets as a result of performing in a gig just before them that night) I will agree with that . Two numbers in (after volumes well in excess of Tickled Pink levels), Lemmy got the house lights up and enquired if it was loud enough. The headbangers decided it wasn't and the whole thing got cranked up 100%. As a result not only the floor and the walls were vibrating, but every single organ in my body. I couldn't hear when I left the hall half way through, and had problems for the next few days! Now, having sat through a Tickled Pink evening at Godalming a couple of years or so before that I have to say that they are pussy cats by comparison .. I had no hearing problems on the way home!

As to a Motorhead ceilidh - I think I might pass on that one.