Billy Bragg once said: “Don’t let the pressures get you down, keep singing out, keep singing loud”. Of course these words could have been Billy’s own, but to be precise he said it about two years ago on Sam Duckworth’s  second album “Searching For The Hows And Whys” as an interlude and was just quoting the lyrics. But anyway this sentence is characteristic for both, Billy Bragg and Sam Duckworth aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. The half British, half Burmese singer songwriter is well known for his political involvement such as for the “Love Music Hate Racism” campaign or his work for “Jail Guitar Doors”, a project for helping to achieve rehabilitation for prison inmates through music. On his third and self-titled album, his basically acoustic melodies are often influenced by electronic music, hip hop or drum’n’bass and therefore adventurous and somehow exempt from any genre. His songs always have a certain strength and density that is hard to describe. And although his lyrics are never explicit you can always sense the ideas or themes or just the fact that there is a message apart from happiness-sunshine-love topics. So I guess Billy Bragg knew very well why he was quoting Sam’s lyrics.

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. tour dates:

27/09/2010 Cluney, Newcastle

29/09/2010 Cockpit, Leeds

30/09/2010 Academy 3, Manchester

01/10/2010 Fibbers, York

02/10/2010 The Pitz, Milton Keynes

03/10/2010 Rainbow Warehouse, Birmingham

05/10/2010 Thekla, Bristol

06/10/2010 Orange Box, Yeovil

07/10/2010 Free Show – Concorde 2, Brighton

08/10/2010 Princess Pavilion, Falmouth

09/10/2010 The Factory, Barnstaple

10/10/2010 Ifor Bach, Cardiff

12/10/2010 Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth

13/10/2010 Electric Ballroom, London

15/10/2010 vinspired Lake of Stars Festival, Malawi Lake

Tags: Billy Bragg, Collapsing Cities, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Jail Guitar Doors, Love Music Hate Racism, Sam Duckworth, Searching For The Hows And Whys