Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – the solo moniker of Sam Duckworth for the best part of a decade – will be hung up permanently after the completion of a farewell UK tour starting at the end of August.
“Here we are, a week and a Glastonbury after announcing the end and there’s a silver lining of some sorts,” Duckworth says. “It doesn’t feel right to just stay in London, as there are many of you around the country who I’d love to sing these songs with one last time.”
The tour visits cities such as Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow and Cardiff, and ends with a visit to the Kentish Town Forum in London on September 12th – a gig Duckworth is particularly looking forward to.
“I really want the Forum to be the ultimate realisation of how the songs were meant to sound – before I filled them with way too many instruments,” he continues.
“This will, however, be the only full band show of the tour – partly for logistics, a bit to make it less risky for promoters (it really is hard to tell how many people out there would want to come) and mostly to close the chapter how it started.”
“I would love it if you’d join me in saying goodbye to Chronicles (this feels like the album most suited to one man and a laptop) but also a few of the other tunes too. We’ve tried to go as far afield as possible but unfortunately the days of 56-date mega tours are over for a bit, alas I am a bohemian teenager no more (if I ever really was…).”
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly began with the debut album ‘The Chronicles Of a Bohemian Teenager‘ in 2006. A further three studio LPs have been released since then, the last of which was 2012’s ‘Maps‘.
Sam Duckworth has already begun releasing music under his own name, and used the medium of PledgeMusic to self-release ‘Amazing Grace‘ last year.
Tour dates:
AUGUST
Manchester, Night & Day (28)
Liverpool, East Village Arts Club (29)
Newcastle, Academy 2 (31)
SEPTEMBER
Glasgow, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut (1)
Leeds, Brudenell Social Club(2)
Nottingham, Rescue Rooms (3)
Frome, Cheese & Grain (5)
Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach (8)
Southampton, Joiners (9)
London, Kentish Town Forum (12)