Exeter Cavern Club

Exeterior of the venue (source)

Muse at Exeter's Cavern, 1999

Muse at Exeter's Cavern, 2022

Cavern Charity T-shirt

Opened in 1991, with their first show on Valentines Day, Exeter Cavern (or The Cavern Club) is a small venue, located on Queen Street, in the centre of Exeter, Devon, England. Being located not-far-from Teignmouth, it was one of the venues where Muse performed the most, and is perhaps most notorious for being the place where the band started it all. In 1995, Muse also took part in the Battle of the Bands, which took place in The Cavern. According to Dom, Muse have performed in this club about 32 times during their early years.

In 2016, the club suffered an accidental fire, which destroyed part of the venue, with the basement, where the fire started, being severly damaged. Due to the quick actions from both the people and the staff, the club was succesfully refurbished and reopened in May of 2017.

In 2022, Muse returned to the Cavern Club after twenty years, to perform a special secret gig for Jim Beam's "Welcome Sessions", a series of recorded live shows/documentaries, in which bands revisit the clubs which helped them kickstart their careers. This also marked the first time in 16 years that the band performed an entire gig with just the them three on-stage. Footage from this show (specifically, Compliance) can be seen here.

A limited-edition Cavern Charity T-shirt was released on the official Muse store, listing all dates Muse played in the venue in the 1990s on the back of the shirt, with some promotional posters on the front of it. All proceeds from the shirt will be going towards the Cavern Club.

Muse appearances

• 2022-04-07
• 1999-07-19
• 1999-06-23
• 1999-01-25
• 1998-05-16
• 1998-04-16
• 1997-12-27
• 1997-12-12
• 1997-11-11
• 1997-11-08
• 1997-10-14
• 1997-09-09
• 1997-08-09
• 1997-07-15
• 1997-05-24
• 1997-03-31
• 1996-12-03
• 1996-10-29
• 1996-09-02
• 1996-06-29
• 1996-04-16
• 1995-12-19
• 1995-11-04
• 1995-10-01
• 1995-09-08
• 1995-06-28
• 1995-05-06
• 1995-04-06
• 1995-03-07
• 1995-02-27
• 1995-01-23
• 1995-01-04
• 1994-12-12
• 1994-11-05
• 1994-10-22 (supporting Tribute to Nothing)

Technical Specs

The following information came from an old technical sheet for the Exeter Cavern:

Technical Specs

• Venue: Cavern
• Address: 83-84 Queen St.
• Town: Exeter
• Capacity: 220
• Dressing room: Small (no shower)

Time Schedule

• Get in: 5.00
• Sound check: 6.00 (main band)
• Dinner: 7.00 (in-house)
• Doors: 8.00
• Onstage: 8.15 - Opener
  

9.00 - 2nd Band
9.45 - Breathe

• Curfew: Clubnight Following Bands
• Parking: From 5.00 Outside Venue (in loading bay)

PA Specs

• Opus rig with 32-channel Soundcraft Console
• Engineer: Mike Mills (07793315190)

PA Spec List:

• Front of Hose: 3K Opus rig (3-way) (master runs through a BSS graphic EQ), with Opus, C-Audio and Amcron amplifiers, running on BSS FDS 360 3-way crossovers
• Monitoring: 2x Turbosound wedges, running on a 1200-Watt Crown amp after Behringer graphic EQs (separate mixes)
• Drum fill: 1x Yamaha full-range stack, running on a 1200-Watt Crown amp after a Behringer graphic EQ (separate mix)
• Desk: 28-channel Soundcraft (6-aux, 7-bus)

Outboard:

• BSS 4-way Gate
• Drawmer 2-way Gate
• Behringer 4-way Compressor/Limiter
• Behringer 2-way Compressor/ Limiter
• 2x Drawmer 2-way Compressors

Effects:

• Yamaha Rev-7
• TC Electronic D2 Multitap Delay

Microphones:

• 6x Shure SM58
• 2x Shure SM57
• 1x Shure Beta SM57
• 1x Shure PG52 bass drum mic
• 2x Senheiser 609E
• 4x Senheiser 604E
• 1x Senheiser 602
• 1x Unbranded pencil condenser

DI Boxes:

• 5x Orchid Electronics DI Boxes
  

Venue address

The Cavern
83-84 Queen Street
Exeter
Devon, UK
EX4 3RP

Tel: 01392 495370
Fax: 01392 271625

Mail: exetercavern@hotmail.com

See also

• Exeter Cavern Club website