The Cave Singers Live at The Biltmore

Quirk's quirky delivery

Seattle's three piece The Cave Singers played The Biltmore last friday to a packed house. I've seen The Cave Singers on each of their last two tours and they just keep getting better and the crowds keep getting bigger. Each album they have toured shows the kind of growth most bands struggle with. If you missed last weeks show you might have to catch them at an even bigger venue soon. Very soon in fact, The Cave Singers are back this weekend for two shows at the Commodore where they will be opening for their first show with the "so-hot-right-now" Fleet Foxes before continuing on with them for the rest of the tour.

The Cave Singers latest album No Witch is their most rockin' album to date allowing their live show to be even more amped up. It's hard to believe they are a bass-less three piece at times with the size of the sound they can get. Singer Peter Quirk's stage presence is both unique and mesmerizing. Derek Fudesco's lyrical guitar lines offer the perfect counterpoint to Quirk's reedy, scrappy delivery while drummer Marty Lund holds the whole thing down with often sparse yet driving rhythms. Some of the arrangements on their latest album have choirs and string sections adding to their beauty. These same songs performed live weren't noticeably missing a thing. It was PBR fuelled good-times for all.

If you're not lucky enough to have tickets to either of this weekends sold out The Cave Singers/Fleet Foxes shows at the Commodore then pick up No Witch and a bottle of whiskey and see if you're not ripping your shirt off and climbing the furniture like Fudesco on the albums cover.

Lund, Quirk, and Fudesco