Motorhead frontman Lemmy has spoken out and revealed that he has been feeling down since the band were forced to cancel their European tour after he was fitted with a pacemaker.

Lemmy was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat which forced the band to postpone the tour until February next year in order to give him time to recover his health.

In an interview with the New York Times, Lemmy said that he feels “really down” further adding: "I'll never get a job again. I'm paying for the good times, I suppose. It's a mixture of all the things I ever did — and I did plenty."

"I've already given up smoking. I drink wine and that's it."

Motorhead's guitarist Phil Campbell recently spoke about the state of Lemmy's health saying: "Lem had a pacemaker fitted earlier in the year because he'd been suffering from irregular heartbeats, and then his diabetes started playing him up. But his ticker's fine now and he's made sufficient changes to his lifestyle and diet in order to combat the diabetes, it's just that he felt he wasn't 100% ready to go back on the road just yet."

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