Every Sunday

It's been a tradition at Wellfleet's Beachcomber club for the Incredible Casuals: Each Sunday, they play from 5-8 p.m. Now, the Beachcomber is the coolest rock club on the Cape - a diverse group of musicians love this work/holiday-in-the-sun spot to play. The Incredible Casuals - pop-rock stalwarts and Cape Cod ambassadors - have been doing this for "six million years -no, eight, eight million years ago, before deodorants were invented," says singer-guitairst Chandler Travis. "The Casuals crawled up off the floor of the ocean and began to play the Beachcomber -this was even before cover charges had been discovered...

... We didn't care, we were just glad to be indoors. Later, women showed up, and then -fortunately - booze and fried clams. We don't know how we keep getting to do this, but we've got a bunch of pretty cool new songs this year, more than usual, and many of them unrealistically optimistic, with titles like "First Warm Day", "Somehow Summertime" and "Another (Expletive) Song About the Beach"; not to mention covers of "Hollywood Sunset and Vine" by the immortal Lincoln Chase and the very zesty Don Gardner's "My Baby Likes To Boogaloo", the latter being one kick ass jam! Actually, I never pictured myself
singing the word 'boogaloo,' but now it's as easy as falling off a hat. And then in the fall of course we'll all run off with the rodeo."
Some of this is true, of course. The Casuals really started playing this gig in 1980, which in the world of pop music, is about eight million. The Casuals gigs at the 'Coma - as Travis calls it - are a blast. Loosey-goosey. Funny. A hallowed tradition at Cahoon Hollow Beach. Cover: $10. (Travis also notes: "Forthose poor souls who can't make it to the Beachcomber in person every Sunday for The Weekly Ordeal, now you can experience at least a sliver of it through the Beachcomber's stage cam! There's also a beach cam, for simultaneous ocean viewing -it's the next best thing to being there."

Cahoon Hollow Beach, Wellfleet, 508-349-6055 www.thebeachcomber.com