| The Cape Race | |
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| Origin | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Rock |
| Years active | 2009-Present |
| Labels | Unsigned |
| Website | thecaperace.com |
| Members | |
| David Moloney - Vocals Matt Sayward - Guitar Adam Lewis - Bass Scott Perkins - Guitar Jonny Davys - Drums |
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The Cape Race are a five-piece British rock band from Manchester, England. They formed in September 2009[1] with four of the five members of now defunct Manchester act The Honeymoon Suite.
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The band were revealed in November 2009 with a 4-track self-recorded demo and a short tour of the North of England with former labelmates Lost On Landing and Lost On Campus. They spent the majority of 2010[2] writing for their debut release, and were seen live across the country with the likes of The Cribs, Badly Drawn Boy, Liam Frost, Parachute, Futures, Tellison, Exit Ten, The Dangerous Summer, Tiger Please, Yuck, Straight Lines, Blitz Kids, Francesqa,[3] In Gratitude and Pegasus Bridge.
In October 2010 the band entered Earth Terminal Studios to record their debut mini-album Now, Voyager with producer Peter Miles. On 27 December the band announced the record via a video on their official website[4] and plans to make a promotional video for every single track on the record.
The first single from the record, "They're Young, They're In Love"[5] was released on January 1, 2011 to generous critical acclaim online,[6] and also earnt the band a spotlight feature on popular music site AbsolutePunk.net.[7] The second single, "Little Whites"[8] was released on April 4, 2011.[9]
On 1 June 2011, the band launched the release campaign for the full mini-album Now, Voyager.[10] It was offered as a free download from thecaperace.com/nowvoyager a little over a month ahead of its release on July 4. As it started to hit email inboxes at midnight (GMT) on July 4, the record had seen in excess of 10,000 pre-orders.
The band announced a third single & video for The Reprieve shortly afterwards. The music video premiered exclusively at Rock Sound[11] on July 13.
The members of The Cape Race came together from being part of different bands in the Manchester scene. David and Jonny were respectively singing and drumming in a band called No Standards when they played a show with a band called Grayson's Hour. Playing in Grayson's Hour at the time was Scott Perkins, as well as Joe Lennox and Adam Morris, who between the five of them formed a new band called The Honeymoon Suite in 2006. The Honeymoon Suite self-released the "The Matrimony EP" later that year, and quickly made quite a name for themselves by winning an Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands competition to open the Taste of Chaos tour with Taking Back Sunday, Anti-Flag, Underoath, Alexisonfire, Senses Fail, Saosin and Cancer Bats. Adam Morris left the band in 2008 and was replaced by Matt Sayward. The band signed with LAB Records (Hellogoodbye, The Morning Of, Just Surrender, The Summer Set) and recorded a sophomore release "Calm Your Little Passions" at Stakeout Studios with producer Jason Wilcock. The band were seen on the live circuit all over the UK with the likes of You Me At Six, Kids In Glass Houses, A Day To Remember, The Blackout, The Hold Steady, We Are The Ocean, Spitalfield, This Providence, Young Guns and Canterbury before splitting in 2009 and forming The Cape Race to pursue a different creative direction.[12] Matt had met Adam as a guitar player in 2004 and asked him to come onboard as bassist.
| Date | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 01/01/2011 | They're Young, They're In Love | Single |
| 04/04/2011 | Little Whites | Single |
| 04/07/2011 | Now, Voyager | Mini-Album |
| 19/08/2011 | The Reprieve | Single |