I've never understood why Superheroes wear capes. Maybe they're self conscious. They're 'buns of steel' just aren't what they're cracked up to be (similar to fat people with baggy clothes or little men who drive sick (pronounce as 'seek') cars). Being self conscious hardly falls into the criteria for being a superhero and that's why the only cool superhero is Batman (although at times he gets a little too close to Robin but we won't hold that against him). His cape actually does stuff (bulletproof, helps him fly etc). I don't see Superman's flimsy little cape doing anything other than hiding his excessively large arse. I wish that guy would just retire - what kind of role model spends 80 years trying to get his woman (Lois) into bed? Given the same time, Chuck Norris would have slept with every woman in this world -7 times over.
Ok now here's the part where I try relate this with something completely unrelated; the band called The Capes. Hold on I've got more. There's a song on their album titled Supergirls (Super - delete 'hero' - add 'girls'). How was that? You're silence says only one thing...

Anyway The Capes are a band from South London and they do have that brit indie pop sound we all know so well. This is not a bad thing of course otherwise I wouldn't be writing about them (actually they could be paying me or blackmailing me... I swear she was legal). Their songs waver in between bands like The Cribs, Franz Ferdinand and Blur with even a hint of Strokesh guitar in a number of them. In all truth I've had their album, Hello, for sometime now and it has taken sometime to grow on me but now I really like it. I think it was more that I was sick of brit pop. This is definitely a cut above most of them and worthy of sitting in your music collection. Here are some tracks from their album Hello which you can purchase here.

The Capes - Tightly Wound

The Capes - Super Girls

The Capes -Shinjuku Hi5