I'm quietly please about this one as he was discovered at an event I organised last year and is now signed to Atlantic and getting regular R1 plays.

Lovely bloke, very engaging performer and a great ear for a good lyric.

www.getcapewearcapefly.com/audio.php

FWIW my next tip is Oppenheimer. Best band I saw at SxSW but still not signed over here, I think.

www.myspace.com/oppenheimer

Matt.

Love the name; very nice sound; good harmonies.
Which makes me wonder - will there ever be as good a harmony group as The Hollies?

JK2006 wrote:
Love the name; The geek in me wants to tell you that its from the old text adventure games, like zx spectrum old.you'd type in each command for what you wanted your character to do

He (get cape) tours with a laptop & an accoustic guitar, think he recently signed to atlantic?

I'm not convinced he's suited to a major (in that i think he'll be in the 50-100k bracket sales wise) and would probably have been better with an indie. Although the big advance IS tempting!)

Yeah he'd just signed to Atlantic when I saw him at SxSW, and I'm inclined to agree that an indie might have been a better move. He's obviously more of an album than a singles seller and his one man band show isn't really suited to big venues.

If his A&R person is smart enough not to just throw money at him to make it work it should be fine, but I don't know anyone at Atlantic. What's the ethos there like? Are they likely to let him just tick over on a low risk/low return type deal?

Matt.

thats my worry...
Seeing as he's a one man band, it won't cost that much to put together tours etc and most of his backing tracks are already recorded so the record should in theory be a piece of cake. again though, all the more reason to stick to a smaller label....

Checking out this artist I looked at the forum as an indicator of what's happening, then at the member list .... 600 odd forum sign ups, lower than I expected. Then I looked at a few random members websites only to discover 404 links, porn clips, loan pages, search pages for mobile phones etc etc from the 9th of June onwards. Best example is via this link :

www.gamefoe.co.uk/forums/memberlist.php?...SC&start=600

24 out of the 26 members websites fall into this catagory, So what's happening:

Is someone on the team signing up ficticious members to make people think he's gaining popularity?

Is he doing it to try and fool the Record Company?

Is one person with an interest in all these sites/businesses doing it in the hopes of attracting customers?

I'm inclined to think the former and at that point all credability is lost.

Rods wrote:
Checking out this artist I looked at the forum as an indicator of what's happening, then at the member list gamefoe isn't dedicated to Get cape though, so those users could very well be for something else, no?

Go north wrote:
Rods wrote:
Checking out this artist I looked at the forum as an indicator of what's happening, then at the member list gamefoe isn't dedicated to Get cape though, so those users could very well be for something else, no?

I doubt the gamefoe people would have anything to gain by spamming the memberlist. Increasing the amount of 'members' by this method on a forum doesn't make it any busier with posts. I'd say it's a case of trying to create a heard mentality - ie people dropping into the site see that their are X anount of users and think I better sign up now as he seems to be getting popular.

yeah, but it still doesn't really explain the link to get cape? or am i missing something?