{"id":23229,"date":"2024-12-24T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T09:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=23229"},"modified":"2025-01-05T21:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:10:32","slug":"nigel-has-been-running-a-cheese-and-guitar-shop-in-berwick-upon-tweed-spinal-tap-ii-director-teases-what-we-can-expect-from-the-long-awaited-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2024\/12\/24\/nigel-has-been-running-a-cheese-and-guitar-shop-in-berwick-upon-tweed-spinal-tap-ii-director-teases-what-we-can-expect-from-the-long-awaited-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNigel has been running a cheese and guitar shop in Berwick-upon-Tweed\u201d: Spinal Tap II director teases what we can expect from the long-awaited sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been over 40 years since 1984’s mockumentary comedy This Is Spinal Tap <\/em>blasted onto screens via a VHS release \u2013 introducing the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap to audiences and creating a cult classic along the way. Fast-forward to 2025, and fans can finally look forward to the (very) long-awaited sequel.<\/p>\n

Now, in a new interview with Empire<\/em><\/a>, director and co-writer Rob Reiner has revealed what the characters have been up to since we last saw them.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigel [Tufnel \u2013 guitarist] has been running a cheese and guitar shop in Berwick-upon-Tweed,\u201d says Reiner. \u201cHe\u2019s also been performing with a local folk band in the village that play penny whistle and mandolin, and he plays electric guitar<\/a> with them. We show a little clip of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid St. Hubbins [lead singer] has been living in Morro Bay in California, and he\u2019s been writing music for podcasts, particularly this one true-crime podcast called The Trouble With Murder<\/em>. He also writes the music that you hear when you\u2019re on hold on the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cDerek [Smalls \u2013 bassist] is living in London and is now the curator of the New Museum of Glue. He\u2019s curated glue from every country in the world \u2013 the whole history of glue \u2013 and he shows me around.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s also been performing with a philharmonic orchestra, and he\u2019s written this kind of symphony about the fact that the devil wears a bad hairpiece. It\u2019s called Hell Toupee.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reiner quips that the characters \u201chave been busy\u201d but that, in spite of it all, the band is ready to reunite. \u201cTap is a band that\u2019s always breaking apart and coming back together,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd Derek always felt that he was the glue that kept everything together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And the director also reveals that audiences can expect to spot some A-list faces in the new movie. \u201cWe came up with a good idea for Paul [McCartney], and he was excited to do it. And we had a great idea for Elton [John]. They\u2019re both terrific in the film, both comfortable just talking off the cuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there’s no official release date yet, Reiner did tease earlier this year that Spinal Tap II will likely come out in late spring or early summer 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s been over 40 years since 1984’s mockumentary comedy This Is Spinal Tap blasted onto screens via a VHS release \u2013 introducing the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap to audiences and creating a cult classic along the way. Fast-forward to 2025, and fans can finally look forward to the (very) long-awaited sequel. Now, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23231,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23229\/revisions\/23231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}