The Cavestompers! "The Cavestompers!" 2008

"good evening RYP! checkin' your blog regularly - lots of good stuff - thanx
want to introduce you russian garage sixties revival band the Cavestompers! (where i play rhytm-guitar)." - ПещерныйThe Cavestompers! - a band from Moscow, Russia confessing savage garage-punk, from mid-sixties and primitive beat sound, filled with psychedelic guitar and organs passages. The whole idea behind The Cavestompers! was simply to play together some favorite songs from 1960s, have fun and if everything goes right walk further and create original material with authentic garage punk sound, feel, attitude and spirit. Formed in fall 2006 for the past two years the band played almost 50 gigs all around the country, released 3 demo-tapes (one of these mixed by E. Letov), plenty of bootlegs and finally made it to the studio, recording their debut LP "Introducing The Cavestompers!" The sound experiments of the band gradually led to birth of their own specific sound based on heavy usage of east-bloc and soviet equipment & instruments, which can be described as a slightly delayed answer to sixties garage music coming from an Iron Curtain. Original material now prevails in The Cavestompers! average concert set-list, but there is always space for some weird covers of lost garage, beat, soviet, punk treasures and finds.
It happened so that at the time The Cavestompers! started there was not much of a scene around and naturally the band went into developing and then supporting it. That included hosting "Garage Gathering" festival, "Proof Of Fuzz" parties, numerous allnighters and concerts which made it possible for like-minded freaks from all over Russia to express themselves in front of emerging audience. Now one can call The Cavestompers! not only a band but a rather big commune of enthusiasts (photographers, publicists, dj's, go-go dancers, artists, guys from psychedelic lightshow etc) all responsible for some sort of garage "boom" and breakage of ice here and there.
Meanwhile The Cavestompers! music was featured on some western radio-stations like "Whole Lotta Shakin" show, Luv Radio, Psy Velveeta in the States, Whatwave, Sugarbuzz magazine podcast in Canada, Stoned Circus Radio Show (France) and on Cavestomp! club's myspace profile as well as local radio. Good reviews on the material surprisingly came from founding fathers such as Electric Prunes and GONN! and their descendents The Cynics, The Thanes, Robert Gordon, legendary PUNK! magazine and a bunch of other outsiders from all over the world. Shindig mag (UK) wrote about the band and next issue of Misty Lane fanzine (Italy) will feature a big interview with The Cavestompers! plus a song on supplied CD. There were also some brief appearances on local music TV and press, but you can say that more interest is coming from the outside then from within.
In January 2009 the band's own label Plastic Cave Records(toghether with russian indie-label Noizer) pressed a CD-version of debut LP, originaly released by Groovie Records (Portugal) with different artwork and bonus tracks and made a 6 cities support tour (Volga Region, North-West, Ural) and is going in European tour (Netherlands, France, Germany) in summer 2009. - Пещерный
http://myspace.com/thecavestomperstracklist:
01 girl in black / 02 rock'n'roll / 03 был один парень / 04 amphetamine girl / 05 do you understand me / 06 run outside / 07 limousine / 08 go go go on / 09 you're my girl / 10 louie / 11 shabby clothes, shabby moods / 12 night and day / 13 promise me / 14 can't stop the stomp / 15 isolation