The Cave Singers

Let’s go Cave Singers chants a solitary man, who’s pushed his way to the front of the crowd, moments before the Seattle-based trio hits the stage.

After a few songs frontman Peter Quirk stated I'm so happy to be aright now and it was more than evident watching him gyrate arm flap and shake his maracas over the course of the night.

Capital Ballroom, Victoria, Canada

While nervous ticket-hunters skulked around outside, the three cave singers themselves, vocalist Pete Quirk, drummer Marty Lund and guitarist Derek Fudesco, took to the Doug Fir stage and brought this grainy ethos to bear.

On record the Texan trio's country varnished ear-pleasers flutter out in streams of affecting strolling melody but in the midst of these looming surroundings such intimacy is rarely achieved.

San Francisco, USA

It was a pretty dreadful start to the night. The weather was horrendous and I was already late for Kathryn Calder’s set. Unfortunately I only caught three songs but what I did get to hear I was a big fan of. I knew Calder from her work with the New Pornographers and while you could hear a bit of that sound to