Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
We caught up with Sam in Aberdeen during his sold out tour of the UK.
Sam Duckworth, aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, has been entertaining crowds with his own unique blend of acoustic and electronic music, gaining great admiration and success. We caught up with Sam in Aberdeen during his sold out tour of the UK.
You're in the middle of a big tour of the UK, how's it been going so far?
It's been going really well, I'm just a bit knackered to be honest. It's kind of got to that point now where I've spent so long on the bus and doing shows that I've kind of forgotten what it feels like to be at home. But I'm really enjoying it, I can't complain!
You've done shows in the past with various different setups; you and your laptop, various different sizes of bands. What's your particular preference?
This is the definitive line-up (guitar, drums, trumpet, laptop), it's just really nice to have a real drum kit. The electronic stuff is good, but it just sounds a bit flat sometimes. I had the opportunity to record the record as I wanted to, in terms of all the instruments I wanted, having live strings and live drums. Amalgamates it all together in the live show just works really well.
Do you feel that there are certain songs that come across better in different live setups?
I think it's quite nice to vary it really, that's one of the good things about having this setup is that it's not hugely complicated in that if I lose a drummer, it doesn't make a massive dynamic change. We still keep the electronic bits and drop them in an out, it's good to try and mix things up from song to song.
This is the first tour since your album came out, have you found the crowd reaction better, now that people know the songs?
Yeah it's been mad actually, we must have done 200 shows before the album came out, and now it's ridiculous - we've sold out every night of this tour. It's just been mental, we didn't really expect it, and people to know the album so well. It's great to see all people who've been listening to all the songs rather than just the singles, seeing them singing along. It's just really flattering.
'If I Had A Pound For Every Stale Song Title I'd Be Thirty Short of Getting Out Of This Mess' is a ridiculously long song title. Do you think you can beat that on the next album?!
Haha, I don't know, but I'm starting to regret calling it that now because there was talk of having that as the next single, but you can't have a single with a title that long! Nobody on the radio would ever read it out! I'm quite glad I got that one out of my system.
It's been quite a quick rise for you, from the release of your first demos and e.p's through to being signed by a major label to the album now being released. Have you found it daunting at all?
It doesn't really feel that quick to me because it's really been three solid years of touring. Since March it's kind of gone really quickly, but all the ground work and foundations were laid before everything took off, so it wasn't a case of things suddenly took off. We knew how things were going, and I've enough experience of touring to know what I was doing. And we were already playing decent sized rooms anyway. But I guess to go from relative obscurity to being in the twenties in the album chart was quite a big leap. It doesn't fell like much of a culture shock, it just feels like a natural progression. The outlook perception of things is really different from what it's like internally, simply because a lot of people don't remember me when I was doing all the ramshackle shows in the beginning.
You've played in some very different style bands before Get Cape, was what you're doing now something that you've always played and didn't ever do live, or was it a totally new direction for you?
It just came from messing around to be honest. The bands before were hardcore bands, I'm still very much into that kind of music, I'm in the process of writing a hardcore record at the moment, and I'm quite excited about that. But this is something that came out of experimentation. I've always played the acoustic guitar, and it seemed like a natural evolution really. Although the kind of music I was playing before doesn't mean I didn't have influences from the dance music world or acoustic music. I was just messing around with computers and guitars and it seemed natural to me.
What have you got planned after the UK tour?
Supposed to be sleeping, but I doubt that's going to happen! Literally come off tour on the 25th, rehearsal 26th, Electric Proms on the 27th, a day off and then straight out to America. It's only five dates, but then back out on tour with The Flaming Lips over here.
Do you have plans for a new single?
Yeah, War of The Worlds is the next single coming out on the 27th November. Just shot the video on Saturday, so I'm quite excited.
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