3 Acts. 2 1/2 Hours. 1 stage. No gaps. An evening of unique collaborations and musical enjoyment.
Tickets available from http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/get-cape-wear-cape-fly-tickets?c=url_ext_ln_getcape_081211
Tour has been going really well so far, the crowds in London, Brighton and Cambridge were incredibly receptive and was nice to meet some of you. We’re heading to Nottingham today and then onto the following places over the next few weeks:
Thu 20-10-11: UK, Nottingham, Bodega
Sat 22-10-11: UK, Bath, Moles
Sun 23-10-11: UK, Cardiff, SWN Festival
Tue 25-10-11: UK, Oxford, Jericho Tavern
Wed 26-10-11: UK, Leeds, Cockpit
Thu 27-10-11: UK, Liverpool, Shipping Forecast
Fri 28-10-11: UK, Glasgow, Pivo Pivo
Sat 29-10-11: UK, Edinburgh, Electric Circus
The tour party is Myself and Jay, playing songs from the Mannequin and some Get Cape tunes now and again. Toby aka Shoes and Socks Off, who is playing half an hour of beautiful music each night and Mench, who is teaching us the righteous path and making us sound professional. Hopefully catch you at a show 
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In other news, I’ve just finished putting together a mix for Mary Anne Hobbs music response show on xfm, its an honour to be asked to do a mix for one of the pioneering figures in the evolution of British electronic music. It’s been a week of deep digging but am chuffed with the results. Will let you know when its going to air
I’ve caved and set up a tumblr. I’m still not too sure what it is, but have found myself trawling through other peoples with great interest. Over the next few days it will act as a visual tour diary, chronicling anything funny we see. You can check it out here if you so wish: http://forgetcape.tumblr.com/
Until next time, wrap up warm.
Sam
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From The Excellent folk at Avaaz.org:
Jeremy Hunt has just said he’ll allow Murdoch to own all of BSkyB. We have just three days to flood the government’s public consultation with requests to stop the deal.
We’ve done it before — in the last consultation the government said our stunning 40,000 messages delayed the deal as officials had to read each email carefully, fearing a legal challenge. But now the government is pushing the deal through despite the hacking scandal of murdered Milly Dowler — the latest grim episode that reveals the extent that Murdoch’s media tramples standards and ignores ethics.
Murdoch already controls more of our media than is legal in many countries – and is notorious for using his power to skew our politics. The official consultation ends this Friday — let’s tell the government we don’t want his media empire to control our largest commercial broadcaster. Send a message now to Hunt to pass this deal to the Competition Commission for a full review and tell your friends.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/97.php?cl_tta_sign=4a9e6094475581e04ff144691e8595a7
Thanks to hundreds of generous donations from across the UK, Avaaz has launched an all-out campaign to stop the Murdoch deal — running an opinion poll to be released to national press, buying adverts urging key decision-makers to stand up to Murdoch’s corrupting power, and initiating a legal challenge. But to succeed, we must match these tactics with our voices in the official democratic process. We must show that this is something people take personally, in every corner of the country — and that ignoring us would carry a political price.
Many say the deal is done, but if we bombard the political elite, the public and the official process with one clear message — the people of Britain reject this deal — we can still win.
To bypass critics, Murdoch promised to spin off Sky News as an “independent” company. But media experts point out that this is a farce: News Corp will still pay Sky News’s bills, provide its satellite access, and be able to place loyalists on the board. This fake and only temporary independence is exactly the sort of “safeguard” that Murdoch has created to whitewash previous takeovers — and subsequently brushed aside like a cobweb.
Let’s tell Jeremy Hunt that Murdoch has too much power already — we don’t want him wholly owning Britain’s largest commercial broadcaster any more than we want him owning our politicians!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/97.php?cl_tta_sign=4a9e6094475581e04ff144691e8595a7
Responsible media is a vital pillar in any democracy, informing voters and holding the government to account. Murdoch’s media is the opposite: it spreads hatred, war, and division, and turns politicians into puppets. This week is a major battle for our media freedom. Let’s stand up for our democracy.
With hope,
Alex, Sam, Alice, Brianna, Pascal, Graziela and the whole Avaaz team
Sources:
Jeremy Hunt ‘wrong not to refer NewsCorp bid for BSkyB’:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8358824/News-Corp-clears-way-for-BSkyB-bid-with-plan-to-spin-off-Sky-News.html
Jeremy Hunt a Rupert Murdoch fan:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/03/04/jeremy-hunt-a-rupert-murdoch-fan-115875-22964525/
News Corp-Sky deal: opponents urge MPs to lobby Jeremy Hunt:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/14/news-corp-sky-jeremy-hunt
Letting Rupert Murdoch buy BSkyB creates a media superpower with worrying influence:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/features/2011/03/04/letting-rupert-murdoch-buy-bskyb-creates-a-media-superpower-with-worrying-influence-115875-22964550/
Hi all,
Hope you’re all well and are having a fun start to the summer. It’s been an interesting but fun time here. After battling with apathy both musically and politically, I’ve given up on apathy. What’s the point in sitting around moaning that nothing happens, instead I’ve decided to try make things happen.
Glastonbury was a fun and inspiring time where I came to 3 conclusions:
1. Music is brilliant, I love it.
2. Don’t believe the hype. The music industry might be dead, but the music isn’t, there are so many good bands making great music, it’s up to the industry to stop moaning and start supporting them with realistic advice, budgets and targets and not building them for a fall and leaving them without an ability to grow and develop, as musicians and as people.
3. Politics is alive and well in the younger generation and still kicking butt with the more established folks. People are organising, finding fun ways to bring messages to the masses but most importantly keeping hope and faith in the idea that change IS possible.
I’ve written a poem about apathy, its a bit of fun and I’m not even sure its a poem (my knowledge of poetic structure is akin to my knowledge of gardening, cack handed and clumsy.) I hope you like it.
Hats off
I’d take my hat off to you, but I’m scared of what’s underneath
It’s not just my ethics, that got patchy with age,
but my belief in people and their power to change.
I’m tired yet I’m restless.
My lexicon endless.
I’d take my hat off to you, but I’m scared of what I bequeath
Be well and keep the faith.
Samx
Hey
Hope you’re all well and bracing yourselves for the weather (Glastonbury bound or not.)
Things are good here, just beavering away in the studio working on various bits and bobs.
The first of these to come along is an album called The Mannequin
It’s a collection of songs I wrote over the course of the last Get Cape… tour. They’re an aural scrapbook of my ideas and thoughts, a little more stripped back and lyrically in a different place to my previous albums. As a result, i present to you my first moniker. Sam Duckworth.
I have an album launch show coming up in July at the lexington, where I will be playing the album through. There’s also a space for me at the Splendour festival where I will be giving these songs an outing a little further up the M1.
Wednesday, July 27 at 8:00 PM
The Lexington, Pentonville Road, London (Kings Cross / Angel)
£8.50
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=451869
Saturday 24th July
Splendour Festival Nottingham, Woolaton Park
http://www.splendourfestival.com/tickets.html
You can preview some of the tracks over at my soundcloud page here
http://soundcloud.com/samduckworth/sets/the-mannequin-album-preview
The next project on the horizon is a new Get Cape… Record, but that’s a few months off yet, however we’ll be testing out some songs old and new at the following places over the summer:
6-Aug UK, Blackpool, Winter Gardens – Rebellion Festival – Bizarre Bazaar Stage
http://www.rebellionfestivals.com/index.php?page=tickets
13-Aug UK, Wallingham, Nr Bromley – Leefest
http://www.gigantic.com/leefest/home_leefest_2011.html
27-Aug UK, Cheltenham, Racecourse – Greenbelt
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/festival/tickets
28-Aug UK, Leicestershire, Cattows Farm – Strawberry Fields
http://www.strawberryfieldsfestival.co.uk/tickets2011.htm
Vinyl junkie? It seems a growing proportion of you are, myself included. I’m pleased to finally have an 180gsm album out in the world. To be honest it doesn’t sound too much better but the artwork looks cool bigger and its always fun to play. You can get it at the following location if you like:
Get Cape. Wear Cape Fly. – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Limited to 1000 copies 180gram audiophile vinyl
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/stores/gcwcf/index.php?productId=10004933&pTypeId=1
Have a great june and enjoy glastonbury either on the tele or down in the trenches. Maybe catch you in a field or at the lexington soon.
In the words of Zack Ryder… Take care, spike your hair.
Sam
