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UNCOVERED: David st hubbins - Caught on Camera

The day that one of BritPop's biggest and best-loved stars shocked Glastonbury festival by joining hard rock legends Spinal Tap for a controversial celebration of plus-sized female buttocks

Glastonbury festival 2009 was not ready for a national treasure getting behind Spinal Tap's lewd ode to bum cakes and velvety cheeks

Louder

English cricket meets Spinal Tap as Rob Key delivers latest Ashes autopsy

The England men’s cricket MD offered a postmortem that didn’t address the nuts and bolts of the system he manages

The Guardian - UK

"He smells like the inside of your grandmother's purse": Spinal Tap's improbable return is the comeback no one expected – and even fewer requested

Three men, one vision, several lawsuits

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"We’ve decided not to count drummers anymore, it got depressing when we got to two figures." An audience with Spinal Tap legend David St. Hubbins

Spinal Tap singer/guitarist David St. Hubbins on beefing with Metallica, hanging with Ronnie James Dio and why they could never be Slipknot

Metal Hammer

Why This Is Spinal Tap remains the funniest rock satire ever made

With Spinal Tap II: The End Continues hitting cinemas, now is the perfect moment to revisit its precursor, one of most influential and hilarious comedy films ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap.

The Conversation

When is 'Spinal Tap 2' streaming? Here's our best guess

Find out when you might be able to watch 'Spinal Tap II: The End Continues" at home.

Tom’s Guide

Metallica may have ‘stolen’ Spinal Tap’s album art, but the comedy-metal legends aren’t bitter about it

David St Hubbins downplays the idea of a feud between Spinal Tap and the world’s biggest metal band

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41 Years Later, The Most Absurd Movie Experiment Of The '80s Just Got A Huge Upgrade (And A Sequel)

Inverse spoke with director Rob Reiner about how a fake rock documentary tapped into pop culture and landed a sequel.

Inverse

We Talked To Spinal Tap II's Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer And Co. About Ringo Starr Declining, The Condition Of The Latest Drummer, And So Much More

A conversation with the legendary band.

Cinemablend

Five basses! Spinal Tap recruit Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat for bottom-heavy Jimmy Kimmel performance

Movie and album are both out Friday

MusicRadar

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review – rockers return for mockusequel of pin-sharp laughs and melancholy

Enter the Tapocalypse as Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner return in a still-funny, cameo-studded telling of the hapless band’s final gig

The Guardian - UK

I Finally Watched Spinal Tap, And Now These 6 Jokes Actually Make Sense

I waited way too long for this...

Cinemablend

“On the bass…” Spinal Tap recruit Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat for Jimmy Kimmel performance of Big Bottom

David St. Hubbins led a legion of bassists out onto the Jimmy Kimmel stage for a rendition of Spinal Tap’s 1984 track

Guitar World

"It's up to King Charles, it's not up to us." British rock legends Spinal Tap play down speculation over possible knighthoods, excite US talk show host with surprisingly meaty Big Bottom

Could we soon see Spinal Tap trio on their knees awaiting the touch of King Charles' sword? Time will tell

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“It has one of the highest outputs of any passive humbucker, ever”: Seymour Duncan celebrates imminent release of Spinal Tap sequel with a custom pickup – and it has an “eye-watering” DCR reading of 111K

But what will this monster one-off pickup sound like – and will we ever see it in production?

Guitar World

“We did this show in Amsterdam. It was quite loud, so it was shut down after 20 minutes. The people started throwing wooden shoes”: Nigel Tufnel on the return of Spinal Tap – with Marshall amps that go to infinity, new custom guitars, and a point to prove

In a stupendously rare interview, Tufnel ruminates about birds, gear, Blind Bubba Cheeks and celebrity guests, and finds that it's true about what they say, blessed are the cheesemakers indeed

The Guardian - UK

‘Our songs last three minutes but they feel like an hour’: the return of Spinal Tap – an exclusive that goes up to 11!

Over 40 years since This Is Spinal Tap was mistaken for a comedy, its hard-rocking subjects are back for a legally obligated final gig. Our writer smells the glove

Louder

"The band were honoured to have two Knights grace them with their presence." Film director Rob Reiner reveals how he got Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John to appear in the new Spinal Tap movie

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues comes complete with two Knights of the Realm

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Louder

Filmmaker Marty DiBergi is hosting a live Q&A with Spinal Tap legends David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls ahead of the release of his new documentary Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

"Why don't you just make ten louder, and make ten be the top number, and make that a little louder?"

Total Film

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 live coverage – All the news from SDCC 2025 as it happened

All the news and panel announcements from SDCC 2025, as it happened, can be found right here

Cinemablend

5 Reasons Why This Is Spinal Tap Is Still The Funniest Movie I've Ever Seen In My Entire Life

There really is a fine line between stupid and clever.

Guitar World

“I don't like auditions. Let those boys like Beck and Clapton fight it out with each other. Let me watch and laugh”: Spinal Tap discuss all-star guitar duels, (maybe) influencing the Beatles, and persevering through multiple sudden tragedies

Fresh off of their sterling 1992 comeback album, Break Like the Wind, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls reflect on (and bicker about) their remarkable creative arc, the tragic fates that befell many of their bandmates, and that humbling documentary they'd prefer to forget

Guitar World

“I walk in and see on the board: ‘Beck, Satriani, Lukather, Slash.’ I thought it was a send-up”: Spinal Tap once surprised Nigel Tufnel with an all-star guitar solo tribute – but he wasn't thrilled about it

Explaining (well, bickering about, really) the star-studded Break Like the Wind, David St. Hubbins maintained that the collaboration was merely intended as a friendly gesture from admirers, and that Tufnel misunderstood it

Evening Standard

Teaser released for Spinal Tap II as Elton John confirmed for cameo

The brief clip shows an amp being set to maximum as the cinema release date is revealed as September.

Metal Hammer

Hello Cleveland! What's wrong with being sexy? Eleven ways in which Spinal Tap changed the lexicon of rock

The improvised lines from Spinal Tap that have been assimilated into common rock parlance and beyond

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