Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

At the minute you’re touring to promote the new album. What can you tell us about the new album?

It’s very different to the first. It’s more of a band and orchestral record than it is a solo artist’s record. It’s a departure. If you’ve seen me play live then it makes sense as to the sound. But it’s well worth a listen. It’s a very different record, but that’s not to knock it, it just experiments in different ways. To work with a producer that I really respect, and to play with an orchestra was an amazing opportunity. So sonically it’s very different, but the core of the songs are still the same

And on one of the tracks, Better Things, you sing with Kate Nash. How did that come about?

I’ve known Kate for a long time, and just putting the record together, there was a track that needed a female part, and I just thought she’s be someone cool to do it. In the time that it took to work it out and record, she became huge! It was quite bizarre really. It started out as ‘yeah just my friend Kate’, and now suddenly it’s ‘Kate Nash, megastar’. But that’s not a bad thing, I’m really pleased for her.

Come on now, Sam, what do you really think of girls with guitars?

Y’know what, I think if a girl can play guitar and write a good song then that’s fine. Someone can make music regardless of their sex. As long as they believe in what they are doing, and it’s actually listenable, then I’ve got no problem at all.

Sorry. Now, on the first album you address some political issues, and as you were coming into the limelight you were involved a lot in Love Music Hate Racism. How do you feel that your music stands up against social issues such as racism?

Y’know, I haven’t written my music for that purpose. Being involved in those organisations is something that I’ve been able to further my involvement as my musical career has developed. It’s just important to write about what affects you and what you care about. And issues like racism is something that has affected me and has been on my mind, and I felt it was something important to tackle. I feel that element in my music has sprung from being something I care about, rather than something that I’ve just done because a lot of the artists I listen to write musically political songs. Y’know, it’s just an extension of everything that I care about , rather than trying to preach or ram an idea down your throat.

Now Sam, I was on Wikipedia earlier today, I ran a search on your name. Apparently you’ve appeared in Hollyoaks. What was that all about?!

That was funny! Somebody said the opportunity has come up to do a little guest spot on Hollyoaks, are you up for it? So I thought, why not?! How often do you get to go and be on the telly. I mean, come on, we all watch Hollyoaks, it’s a guilty pleasure! It was a bit of fun.

If you were to have a terrible TV soap made of your life, who would play you?

Erm… tricky. Probably Johnny Depp?

Johnny Depp?!

I wouldn’t say that I like Johnny Depp, but I think it would be pretty cool to watch your life being played be somebody who can do it justice! Not that my life is intereting! But I think it would be good to watch somebody take life on the road and give it an interesting twist, and I think Johnny Depp is such a brilliant actor, I’d like to see him do it! And he’s a good-looking guy, you’re a good-looking guy…it all kind of works. [laughs] I’m not throwing anything out there about comparisons to my looks, because I think that would be unfair to Johnny and to myself. But that would be a bonus. Whether or not people watch it would be a different thing.

I think they would. I think we’d call it ‘Sam Duckworth, The Trilogy’, or something.

I’d quite like to call it ‘Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, A Tragic Tale Of Loss And Desparation’.

Where did you think of that name from?

Oh, it just popped into my head to be honest.

Wow.

I’d probably die young. Y’know, third album, get mixed up with some hookers and maybe get heavily into acid, have an illegitimate child with Courtney Love, then probably die tragically in a helicopter accident. In Spain.

It’s that difficult period around the third album, isn’t it?

It’s tricky, there’s all these temptations….nah! Still, I think the third album won’t be easy because you spend a long time honing your sound and by the time you come to your third, you’ve had a chance to learn how you write songs and get a grasp of yourself. I kinda can’t wait to get cracking on it really.

Well it won’t be an easy third album if you’ve got all those hookers involved, and the helicopter crash. That won’t be an easy album at all.

I don’t know, it worked for albums one and two!

Fair enough then! You know this is going to be broadcast don’t you!?

[nervous laugher] and you know I’m only joking so….it’s all good.

And finally, apart from the hookers and the acid, what can we expect from Get Cape in the future?

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

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