The Cave Dwellers were a Carlisle band. They had more members than most local bands as they had two or three saxaphone players. The lineup fluctuated but at various times included Tom Foster (sax), Dave Foster (keyboards), Richard Atkinson (vocals), Bil Finlayson (sax), Gordon Hinde (drums), Derek Brown (guitar), Pete Batey (bass), John McGlaughlin (guitar), Howard Sims (bass) and Brian Rogerson (drums).

Brian Rogerson and John McGlaughlin had each at one time been members of the Four Dollars.

The Cave Dwellers played R&B as well as rock - hence the sax section. They played regularly at the Cosmo club and the County ballroom in Carlisle and eventually further afield at various venues in the north of England and southern Scotland.