Liverpool 1973: the original Cavern Club hosted its last concert on 27 May before demolition. On that bill, alongside the better-remembered names, played Caliban — a band contemporaries called "Liverpool's loudest". The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio captured the set; the tapes sat unheard for decades until Seelie Court issued the full recording digitally on 5 January 2026 as Live At The Last Night Of The Cavern 1973.

Guitarist Keith Hubbard traces Caliban's line back through Merseyside groups the Nightriders and the Rebels, nights at the Cavern supporting the Four Pennies and the Merseybeats, a thwarted Star Club residency, and eighteen months in the touring cast of Hair. When he returned, Caliban coalesced around a heavier, original sound: "We wanted to have our own stamp on the music," Hubbard says. The eight-track live document — from the galloping opener "It's Taken So Long" through the Deep Purple-meets-Third World War riffing of "Hard Bitten Woman" to the seven-minute blues workout "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" — sits at the intersection of late-60s hard rock, early heavy psych and proto-metal. Tags on the Bandcamp page include heavy psych, proto metal and underground rock.

A new interview with Hubbard on It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine (6 October) recounts the shoelace-held accelerator on the band's Bedford van, the 1000-watt PA that defined their volume, and the 28-page London Music Management contract that evaporated after legal advice. The release finally gives this lost Merseyside heavy-underground band the documentary footprint their reputation always deserved.