Tap are back
The bigger the cushion the sweeter the pushin’
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I was hoping this would be a thread on Frank Zappa’s most puerile songs of the 1980s….
As it stands, I get strong “Blues Brothers 2” vibes from this.
See also The Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch
(Hope it’s neither)
I suggest you don’t see The Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch, made up of sweepings from the cutting room floor which having seen the film should have been left on the cutting room floor.
There was a first trailer in Classik Rock Facebook feed yesterday. Showed nothing apart from a Marshall be turned up to 11 and a Union Jack guitar smacking the first chord of Stonehenge. Due out in September, hopefully more trailers to follow
I’m wondering if Afterword favourite Richard Thompson will be in it as he’s a friend of Harry Shearer, who appeared at Thompson’s 70th as Derek Smalls.
Can’t access this I’m afraid.
What gives, pop pickers?
Spinal Tap II – The End Continues is a direct sequel to 1984’s This is Spinal Tap, which starred Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest.
The mockumentary about a hapless heavy metal band, dubbed “England’s loudest band”, was directed by and starred Rob Reiner, who is returning to direct the new film, with McKean, Shearer and Guest all reprising their roles.
Bleecker Street has acquired the rights to the sequel and the original movie too, which will be restored and re-released in cinemas over the summer. It will also return to steaming* services later this year.
From the Independent.
* Steaming services I’m looking forward to that. Possibly stage costumes being prepared?
Hope I’m wrong but really wish they hadn’t done this.
What was wonderfully fresh and credible first time round
is going to feel horribly contrived when warmed over and
Garnished with pointless celeb cameos
The cameos aren’t a good sign. The good news is that Reiner is back on board and I think he was the ingredient which made Tap so much better than Guest’s other (still very good sometimes) films.
This will be the second part 2 – I had The Return of Spinal Tap on VHS. It wasn’t very good, apart from (spoiler alert) the bit where the Stonehenge prop won’t fit in the Royal Albert Hall.
It was a bit poor. IIRC, David Crosby showed up at some point in it, complaining to Jeannine about his chakra balls being misaligned.
Blimey, I had no idea that even existed. I remember some sort of ‘reunion’ with ‘Break Like The Wind’ but already it seemed a bit pointless
Funny that they were seen as an old, past their best, rock act 41 years ago! As Hepworth will tell you whether you want him to or not McCartney was deemed to be some sort of rock dinosaur from the ancient past at Live Aid in 85 and he was 43 years old!
Will this be before or after he tell us that Geldof didn’t actually say “give us your f*ckin’ money”
Heppo was a presenter at Live Aid, but he doesn’t like to talk about it too much
Sounds like he has taken the lead from the famously self-effacing Keir Starmer, whose father is said to have been a toolmaker – not that he has ever tried to capitalize on the fact