Pavel (Pomor) Ozhigin - vocals, lead guitar
Ramzan - bass-guitar
Chudovische "The Beast" (Ivan Kosmos Peretyatko) - rhythm guitar, garage guru
Ilya "Crusher" (legolas) Sterazhnov - vocals
Gregory "Greengoo" Eniosov - drums, backing vocals, managment
Ivan "Papa Jacques" Pisarev - keys, vermona orgelen, tambourine.
Sometimes Dmitriy "Evil" Iser - vocals, backing vox, tambourine
Petr Valkov - ideas, managment, general directions, smuggling, pushing,distroman
EXmembers:
Dmitriy "Zlodei" Zlodeev - guitars, vox
Alexey Shulepov - harmonica
Sonya - keys,tambourine
Nikita Evnux - occasional guitars
Alexander Lipski - occasional keys
Cover of The Noblemen I'm gone in White Trash Fast Food, Berlin. summer 2009 tour
Promise Me @ Bassy Club, Berlin. Sky Saxon memorial night.
Do You Understand Me @ B72, Vienna, opening for Los Peyotes.
Influences
most of all amercian sixties garage and 60's garage rock in general, moody garage, naive teen beat, acid punk, proto-punk, garage revival, garage punk, psychedelic rock, mod scene, powerpop, some freakbeat, mod scene, hard psych, jangle pop, rhythm'n'blues, sixties pop, doo-wop, soviet beat and pop, surf, post punk, frat rock, early rockabilly, soul, funk, rocksteady, early ska and all the unusual, desperate and obscure music in the world.
Standells, Sonics, Monks, Remains, Seeds, Human Expression, Avantes, Media, Ju Jus, Velvet Underground, Chevelle V, Stranglers, Bo Diddley, Joy Division, various garage compilations and lots of more. to be continued constantly...
Sounds Like
No one and everybody else.
"Who wolud have believed the medway garage sound had made it so far east!! These rabble-rousers do the sound justice with some great crunchy guitar playing and undeniably groovy organ lines- The youtube footage they have posted reveals them to be raw and powerful, the crowds having what looks like a communal epiphany at just how good musician can be."
Shiding magazine(UK) novemeber 2008
"...all of us listen to very different music coinciding with love of sixties sounds. At that for Pavel sixties in the first ranks are the Who and the Kinks, for Gregory 're Sonics, Hendrix, Monks and MC5, and for Ilya - Beach Boys and Back from the Grave comps. Besides a great variety of bands and rock genres left traces in our hearts and ears, that's why we try not to bound our music only to sixties rock. In the process of composing music everyone have to make various compromises with each other to do the best, to make each song sound as complicate and beautiful so it matches every member’s vision and makes it possible to fulfill his own creative task to the maximum. That's why our covers of Joy Division and Clash are not similar to originals, but are something peculiar. Another feature of our band lies in the fact that in contrast to many modern garage punk bands, we quite reasonably use different pedal effects, fuzz, tremolo, etc. often preferring to play amplified pure sound, using effects to highlight parts of a song.
Moreover, Pavel's natural artistry, charismatic personality of Ilya, Gregory's furious energy, foolhardy behavior and non-typical play of Papa Jacques (Evil's earlier cold pessimism and inspired singing) and dark aloofness of Kosmos compose an explosive cocktail, that seemingly makes it sound like nothing on earth…Gosh!" From Interview for Misty Lane magazine(Italy) avaliable in next issue.
“Its great to hear a brand new record that gives off electric sparks and a palpable sense of the teenage spirit that lies behind all great rocknroll sounds. The Cavestompers, six guys of Russian origin, from the city of Moscow. On this, their debut long-player, "Introducing.", The Cavestompers have woven together a truly fine tapestry of sounds - much of it resonating from the valves of vintage Eastern Bloc electronic technology, and instrumentation - breathing new life into familiar noises; building a thumping, swaggering collection of authentic future dance-party favourites in the process. The influence and style of punk rock isnt so far away, and hand in hand with the proclamations of the original Rolling Stones-era have been bound together in The Cavestompers style to form what we can term today as the new breed. So without any further ado, crank up your music machine, cue the disc and let your hips shake, your bootheels stomp and your head swirl, for as the boys in the band are proud to shout out loud: "we all cant stop the stomp"! The record came with a beautifull two sided insert print, photos of the Russian instruments and studios and photos of the band. “
Lenny Helsing from The Thanes(Edinburgh,Scotland) - http://www.myspace.com/thethanes
The 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 - who’ve chosed The Cavestompers! debut album as release of the month(march 2009)(France), garagepunk.com podcast(USA), Radio Free Bakersfield(California) 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. Other mentions and reviews were featured in Rumore magazine(Italy), Fuzzoverdose(web-zine Greece), rockaroundtheblog.com, Kick Out The Jams(Spanish Fanzine), www.ipunkrock.net(Spain). 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 planning a European tour in summer 2009. The debut release is now avaliable to purchase almost worldwide, check this link for details. an expanded bio is avalibale here
Contact, press, preorders, booking, info –
cavestompers@gmail.com
+7(926)111-94-87
ICQ – 232-747-939
Soulseek id – greengo1968
Facebook – Gregory Eniosov http://vkontakte.ru/id5283457
haha! i sure do hope to make it to ur show some day!! ...but im not from Moscow!.. so probably in the future! haha oh! and be sure to keep me updated w/ your music!!! thx!!!
Hello again, guys. All is going pretty good here, thank you, some nice things have been going on lately. I hope all is well with you, too. Thank you so much for sending the cd. I will let you know when it gets here. Take care, and all the best. x
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