Interview with Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Original son of Southend, Sam Duckworth, aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. is about to unleash his second full offering upon us on March 10th. Since the release of debut album ‘Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager’ Mr. Duckworth has been a very busy and highly sought after man. From trips to the Congo with Damon Albarn, to the re-recording of classic grunge tracks with a Brazilian choir, things have been ever-so-slightly hectic. Outline caught up with the man of the moment, to try and re-cap and put some focus on an insanely busy couple of years…
Your new album, out very soon, is called ‘Searching For The Hows And Whys’, can you tell us the idea behind the name?
It’s a line from the chorus from one of the songs called ‘Postcards from Catalunya’. It just seemed to encompass the feeling of the album really. The album has a theme of questioning; why you are? Who you are? Or why things in the world are the way they are. It all came from a book that I’d read by a guy called Paul Kingsnall. It’s all about possibilities – like if there’s one thing you know you want, there are different ways and different avenues to achieve that.
The aforementioned is a much bigger sounding album than ‘Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager’, I wondered when you came to the realisation you were after a sound like this, rather than the bedroom style vibe of its predecessor?
I think it was even before the first album came out. At that point I’d started playing with a drummer and a horn player. As the band grew and my scope musically grew, it seemed to naturally evolve from there. Before, it was ver
