SOUTHEND singer/songwriter Sam Duckworth is making a welcome return to the Three Wise Monkeys in Colchester next week.

Sam, perhaps best known under his Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly moniker, is back with his new musical project Recreations promoting the release of his new album, Baby Boomers 2 which is due out on April 29 through Xtra Mile Recordings.

“I decided to kill off the Get Cape thing," he says, "because I just knew I needed a change. After ten years, everybody else I knew was able to move away from their uni lives and move away from their teens and I was kind of still wearing it, and it was uncomfortable. You pick up little bits of baggage throughout life. I’m also into the idea that the best way to start anything new, is to completely radically shift everything and then rebuild it.”

Described as 'more heart on sleeve, bolder, more direct, and a little bit more emo', it's still very much the Sam Duckworth we know and love except with looser funk and crispier electronics.

“I always get tagged as being a political musician,” he adds “but most of my songs aren’t political, it’s just that a lot of the stuff I do outside music is. So I wanted to do an album that was sort of both.”

With airplay already from 6Music’s Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq as well as John Kennedy at Radio X, Sam appears at the Three Wise Monkeys, High Street, Colchester, on Wednesday, April 27.

With support on the night from Rob Lynch and Sean McGowan, tickets are priced at £6 in advance available on-line only via www.ticketsource.co.uk/threewisemonkeys or £7 on the doors, which open at 8pm.