I'd give a vote to Arctic Monkeys purely for their comment on-stage at the Mercury Music Awards... Accepting the prize, Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner acknowledged: "Normally it doesn't go to a band that has sold as many albums as we have."

Cut to a rather amused / bemused shot of Thom Yorke's face!

(Previous winners included Primal Scream, M People, Portishead, Pulp, Gomez, Franz Ferdinand & PJ Harvey... all of whom have not a pot to piss in between them!)

If they make Thom Yorke crack a smile, they're well on their way, but I'm not sure they are quite there yet, trying to think of a band that is consistently a bit "Spinal Tap"

any other likely candidates?

Thats Hilarious. I was watchin a clip of when the arctics were collecting the award and must have missed that comment. I saw Turner say something along the lines of "The last person in the world Id like to get on the wrong side of is Kevin Spacey"... Who was there, ehh why was Kevin Spacey there??

Other Candidates... eh nothing really comes to mind that fits the bill as well as Oasis do

for Oasis, I read Liam Gallagher. Have never heard the others speak too much, and Noel Gallagher is a sharp and witty as they come

Maybe Starbelgrade for not being able to open a door/turn guitar volume up a band camp?

Maybe yer one out of Gossip for wearing those frocks..hold on, Spinal Tap moments are supposed to be funny..emm

PQ

Well as the story goes, the 'Tap had marginal success years before and were returning for a not-so-triumphant tour of America, the band falling apart as they slowly reliased that nobody cared anymore.

Metallica.

Mark my words, their next album will be a jazz oddessey, right after the puppet show.

Noels pretty sharp, Liam, er... isn't, then theres the revolving drummer thing.

You don't have to be inherently stupid to be the modern spinal tap, you just need to have a lot of stupid/goofy things happen to you. I reckon the rigours of touring and the weird little world that is the music industry would frazzle even a Mensa members brain after a while.

Irish group for me based purely on soundbites and inetrviews is Humanzi...

Duran Duran also....their comeback and schtick is literally Spinal Tap........

Am going to give the Tap another watch at the weekend..easily the funniest music movie ever.......

But most pointless and comedy ridden comeback in true spinal tap style (except without the musicianship) has to be boyzone......

69.25 a ticket for the RDS to see a burger flipper, panto queen, reality show gobsh*te, crap actor and Ronan Keating...genius.....couldnt beat that with a stick...

I think we're all forgetting a band who also recently reformed this side of the milenium to play at Live 8.... Spinal Tap!

Though thanks for the nomination PQ ! Another Tap moment I had was when we played The Vaults last New Years Eve... I'd bought a new pedal from Germany & didn't realise that because it was a 2 pin plug that it wasn't properly earthed. I had it going thru a 3 pin adapter, so I thought that would sort it.

We got up to soundcheck, and every time my mouth touched the microphone, I was getting electric shocks on my lips (quite painful!). I tried taking my shoes off, thinking that the current would pass thru my feet into the floor (DOH!), but that didn't work. So I ended up borrowing a pair of socks from the keyboardist & putting them over the mic, which absorbed most of the shock, leaving just a small tingle on my lips when I hit the mic. That was until we got into the 4th /5th song, when the socks were getting wet with saliva & started passing the full current again. We played the last 3 tunes as instrumentals.

Towers of London?

Hahaha - it'd have to be. Altho their complete lack of any kind of visable talent might be a small hurdle.

Good point! Actually Metallica isnt far off the mark and Tap did take the whole black album thing from Metallica.
Nigel Tufnel: It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
Watching Some Kind Of Monster is almost like watching This is Spinal Tap.
Im still hoping for a decent new Metallica album though. St Anger was rubbish.

wasnt tap 1984 and metallica 1991? i would say that metallica more than likely nicked it from tap!!!

My bad, youre right. Actually now I remember watching the Metallica dvd 'Year and a half' about the making of the black album and the tour that followed and if I remember correctly it featured David St. Hubbins saying something about Metallica thieving the idea from them.

It can't be Metallica.. that drummer just makes me wanna kill him. Status Quo are still going - plus they're a LOT funnier. Their drummer is also half deaf - he goes round schools teaching the kids the dangers of turning your amp up to 11.