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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly is the stage name of English artist Sam Duckworth and his band. He is often referred to as Get Cape, Cape,GCWCF and Slam Dunkworth.

Biography

Duckworth grew up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and has supported bands such as Funeral for a Friend, The Magic Numbers and Feeder. Duckworth was signed to Atlantic Records in March 2006, after playing many gigs - both with punk rock band Silverskin and as GCWCF. Duckworth's main influences include Billy Bragg, At the Drive-In, Nitin Sawhney, Rival Schools and Blur, and among his favourite bands are Rival Schools, Landser (band), Athlete, Arcade Fire, Alkaline Trio, and Saves The Day[citation needed]. In January 2007, Sam was nominated for best solo artist at the annual NME Awards, up against Lily Allen, Jamie T, Jarvis Cocker and Thom Yorke, although he did not win.

Sam is well known for his debating. He has had run-ins with the BNP after a racist attack in a nightclub two years ago, and has since become an avid supporter of HIAG and Love Music Hate Racism. Sam is half Burmese[citation needed], which might explain the racist insults he has suffered. He has been to many speakings and concerts involving this. He is also a Fairtrade supporter.

As of September 2005, Duckworth has been managed by Paul Bonham of Truck Records.

During a Live Lounge performance for Radio 1, Duckworth informed Jo Whiley that his stage name comes from a ZX Spectrum magazine which featured a solution for the Batman computer game and one of the sections of the solution contained the header "Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly". In March 2007, Sam played for the NMEs SXSW tour in Texas, USA, which, for four days, had over 4000 bands playing in clubs in Texas. He played his slot on the 15th March 2007 at Stubbs Barbecue despite having been in hospital just hours before with bronchitis.

In 2006, he performed as part of the BBC Electric Proms.[1] He played at a number of major festivals in 2007, including Wakestock, Oxegen, Glastonbury,[2] and SXSW.

Discography

Albums

Early releases

Major EPs and singles

  • Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly (EP) (BSM Records, 2006)
  • "I-Spy"/"Call Me Ishmael" (Atlantic Records, 2006)
  • "Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Part One)" (Atlantic Records, 2006) #38 UK
  • "War of the Worlds" (Atlantic Records, 2006) #39 UK
  • "I-Spy" (Atlantic Records, March 2007) #37 UK

Music videos

As of August 2006, four Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. songs have music videos, which are featured on MTV2, VH1 and E4 music.

"I Spy" is somewhat a spoof of a British Saturday morning kids show. Where Duckworth is introduced by a creature that looks like one of the Fimbles and so continues to play on a seat surrounded by kids and various other characters like a stereotypical popstar.

"Call Me Ishmael" depicts an "escape" from everyday work, showing different people from different careers entering an underground tunnel network, along with Duckworth. At the end of the video, Duckworth emerges in a Job Centre, and is promptly asked by an employee to "Take a Number and a seat, please"; an anti-climax to the up-beat feeling of the rest of the song.

"Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager, Part One" (Chronicles for short) depicts Sam Duckworth with other band members playing in a casual environment, inside of a house — wherein it is later revealed that a number of red strings lead into. The bulk of the video consists of various people from different walks of life following one of these strings into the house. At this point, the crescendo of the song kicks in, and a more gig/party like atmosphere is assumed. The video ends by depicting the "morning after" with many people asleep, and Sam Duckworth still playing into a phone, quietly, next to a huge ball of red string.

"War of the Worlds" shows Duckworth in a warehouse sitting singing the song whilst workers busy themselves setting up poles in which their function are not known until the climax of the song, at which point they explode around Duckworth and spew out various colours of paint.

Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager

Get Cape's debut album, Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager has been described as an indie/emo fusion, suggesting that it blends the line between emotional rock and indie music. The album was very well received by critics and even made Q and the NME’s top 100 albums of 2006.

Other contributors

Although not a band in the conventional sense, other musicians who record on GCWCF's tracks are:

The Album 'Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager' was produced and mixed by Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., Adam Menczykowski and Andy Side Theakstone at Unit Music Studios. Except for 'Call me Ishmael', which was produced by Rob Kirwin and mixed by Victor Van Vugt.

References

  1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/2006/getcapewearcapefly/
  2. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2007/artists/getcapewearcapefly/

See also

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