For a touring band, life can imitate This Is Spinal Tap in any number of ways, from getting lost backstage to prop and gear malfunctions to, of course, drummers spontaneously combusting. And then there are predicaments that not even the star-crossed celluloid headbangers in Spinal Tap endured, like the jam that Belle and Sebastian drummer Richard Colburn found himself in last August after he was left behind at a Walmart in Dickinson, North Dakota.

May 2018 Issue