No Sleep 'til Hammersmith

No Sleep 'til Hammersmith is the first live album by English rock band Motörhead, released in June 1981 by Bronze Records.

The title is a reference to the major London music venue the Hammersmith Odeon (now Apollo); often the last stop on the band's UK tours.

Vocalist and bassist Lemmy stated that originally they intended No Sleep 'til Hammersmith to be a double album but they only had enough material for three sides.

I think I overdubbed a couple of lines of vocals on Hammersmith, but there's no false songs.At the time of the album's release, the band were in the middle of their first tour of North America, supporting Ozzy Osbourne.

[5] "When 'No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith' came out", Lemmy told James McNair of Mojo in 2011, "it made a difference financially, but a lot of it went back into the show."

In the wake of the success of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP and Ace of Spades album and single, it entered the UK chart at number one.

In the 2011 book Overkill: The Untold Story of Motörhead, biographer Joel McIver calls it "the peak of the Lemmy/Clarke/Philthy line-up's career".

The record featured tracks from the band’s Short Sharp Pain in the Neck tour which saw them play Newcastle, Leeds, Norfolk and Belfast in the space of a week, in late March / early April 1981.