"Spinal Tap are remembering the old days. It was 1966, and the young beat group from Squatney in east London still, at that point, the Thamesmen were honing their act in the tough clubs of the Benelux circuit. A young band from Britain could learn a lot, facing up to riotous crowds of Dutch, Flemings, Walloons and Luxembourgers."
"If you speak really loudly, it's all right if you don't have any of the local language, says David St Hubbins, Tap's leonine lead singer. The Belgian beer is very good, offers Nigel Tufnel, the lead guitarist who inspired legions. And if you've had enough of them, you can pretty much speak the language."
"The few women I met from Luxembourg, you'd do a gig and a girl comes up and says something to you, and you say something to her. And she says: Not bloody likely,' Tufnel says. That's mostly what it was. They're not like the girls from Liechtenstein."
"In 1984, Marty DiBergi's documentary This Is Spinal Tap captured the band falling apart on a disastrous US tour, and somehow revived their flagging career. Now the film-maker and band have reunited, capturing the Tap reassembling for one final contractually obliged show in New Orleans, in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues."
Spinal Tap reunited to assemble for a final contractually obliged show in New Orleans, filmed as Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. The band remembers 1966 when as the Thamesmen they honed their act on the Benelux club circuit, learning to handle riotous crowds across Dutch, Flemish, Walloon and Luxembourg audiences. Band members recall practical lessons: projecting loudly without local language, enjoying Belgian beer, and comically fraught encounters with local women. The 1984 documentary This Is Spinal Tap documented a disastrous US tour and revived the group's flagging career. Marty DiBergi returned to capture the brief reassembly and the interpersonal dynamics among the three core members.
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