The sound will be turned up to 11 on Wednesday as You Am I take on the music and madness of Spinal Tap.
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As of Australia's most lauded rock acts of the 90s, You Am I is set to perform a tribute to one of Britain's loudest bands at Karova Lounge.
Drummer Russell "Rusty" Hopkinson told The Courier the tour started last year as a "fun thing to do"; paying homage to a favourite mockumentary film.
"When you consider it's an ensemble and largely ad-libbed movie, it's pretty amazing. And if you've spent any time in a band, you will have had something very Tap-esque happen to you," he said.
"For me, as a drummer, I usually use quite a small set-up, but on this tour I use a 12-piece drum kit. It's pretty ludicrous. It has to be."
After almost 30 years of creating music and touring, You Am I has its fair share of semi-unbelievable moments: tour managers left behind and bleak gigs outside Baltimore where they played to three teenagers, who had driven across states just to see them.
Hopkinson said it had never occurred to him before the tour that younger punters may not have watched the 1984 rock classic This Is Spinal Tap, but said the film should be mandatory viewing for anyone considering coming along.
"It's such a brilliant piece of cinema, I think anyone should check it out regardless of whether they want to come along and see us ham up a few Spinal Tap songs or not," he said.
It know people who can't watch it, they don't think it's funny because so much of it has happened to them.
- You Am I drummer Rusty Hopkinson
"Rock bands seem to get pretty shabbily-treated in cinema. So it's nice to see a documentary that's historically and technically accurate."
The Majesty of Tap tour is an inescapably meta one: it's a beloved rock band acting as a tribute band for one of the world's most famous fake rock bands. Hopkinson said part of joy of the shows is that the feigned tribute band is clearly not in on the joke of Spinal Tap's non-existence.
"Like any tribute band, you want to pay as much respect to your idols as you can. We definitely approach it with a whole lot of gusto," he said.
"They're quite good songs, so you have to treat them with a bit of respect."
While there's no promises that Hopkinson won't spontaneously combust or be lost to a strange gardening accident, like many of Spinal Tap's drummers, he said You Am I was ultimately doing the show for their own enjoyment.
"You get to our sort of age, we've been around for a long time, and you do tend to wonder what we can do to amuse ourselves, more than anyone else," he said.
Tickets $44.90, doors open 7.30pm.