Spinal Tap reunite for comeback gig at Tribeca Film Festival

The flower people broke like the wind on Saturday night in New York, as rock legends Spinal Tap reunited for a comeback performance for the Tribeca Film Festival.

The show, which happened at the Beacon Theatre, came after a special screening of the classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap to celebrate its 35th anniversary.

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Band members David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) belted out classics including Flower People, Hell Hole, All The Way Home and Clam Caravan.

As if that wasn’t enough, the band was then joined on stage by Elvis Costello, who assisted in an encore of Gimme Some Money and show closer, Sex Farm.

“When you make something, you have no idea if it’s going to stand the test of time or it’s going to last, so it’s a thrill,” the film’s director Rob Reiner told Page Six.

“And to know that this oddball movie we made with the genre we kind of created is all of a sudden in the Smithsonian and the National Film Registry, it’s crazy.”

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The movie, pioneering the mockumentary style, was released in 1984, but only to modest success.

Over years, it achieved a devoted cult following, and found McKean, Guest and Shearer touring as the fictional heavy metal band, who have amps that go all the way up to 11.

They also released three albums, This Is Spinal Tap, the soundtrack to the original movie, Break Like The Wind in 1992 and then Back From The Dead in 2009, a year which saw them playing both Wembley Arena and Glastonbury.

The trio have also toured as The Folksmen, the fictional folk band from their later movie, A Mighty Wind.