Wednesday, March 4
Christopher Guest has announced not one but two tours celebrating the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap. First, this April he and band mates Michael McKean and Harry Shearer will perform acoustic metal and folk songs for the Unwigged & Unplugged tour. If you hadn't guessed from the name, they'll be performing as themselves, sans heavy metal costume.
Then, later in the summer, they'll put on the wigs and crank it up to 11 for a couple of Spinal Tap gigs. Guest isn't saying where that will happen just yet, but it could be at some big summer music festivals, which would be pretty amazing. Coachella is mentioned as a possibility, but seeing as that's in mid-April, it seems a bit early.
The band has also been back in the studio recording some new songs. Guest next appears on the big screen in the Night at the Museum sequel, but we're more excited to see him team up with Ricky Gervais next year in Invention of Lying.
Posted 3/4/2009 by Hailey
Related: Harry Shearer | Michael McKean | This Is Spinal Tap | Christopher Guest
Friday, May 23
A documentary profiling the life and career of Motorhead's legendary bass-playing frontman Lemmy Kilmister is currently in the works, says The Hollywood Reporter. The film is slated for a 2009 release and will include tributes from assorted rock luminaries, including Slash, Alice Cooper, Steve Vai, Dave Grohl, Mick Jones and for some reason wrestler Triple H.
Sporting a trademark handlebar mustache and warbling raspy vocals into a microphone stationed a foot above his head, Kilmister propelled Motorhead to heavy metal greatness in the '70s and '80s with hits like "Ace of Spades" and "Hellraiser." He was reportedly the primary inspiration for Harry Shearer's Derek Smalls character in the 1984 mocumentary classic This is Spinal Tap.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
Posted 5/23/2008 by reelz
Related: This Is Spinal Tap | Lemmy Kilmister
Wednesday, April 25
Variety reports that the members of the seminal British heavy metal band Spinal Tap are set to once again reunite. They'll be joining the lineup of Live Earth, Al Gore's tribute to himself concert to raise environmental awareness at London's venerable Wembley Stadium in July, where they'll debut their new single "Warmer than Hell."
The band, famously profiled in Marty Di Bergi's pioneering "rockumentary" This is Spinal Tap, is no stranger to political activism. Tap's 1967 hippie anthem "(Listen to the) Flower People," a passionate plea for peace and love, was their first major hit.
Posted 4/25/2007 by reelz
Related: This Is Spinal Tap