Category: Photoshoot

It doesn’t take long for any shoot with Clair the Cape Queen to start talking about album covers: let’s face it, LP cover design was in a world of its own, pushing an artist as quickly as possible as you flicked through the album racks. …

A day for wandering around the town, taking in a bookshop (where books were bought) and maybe a coffee later. It was all good, despite the rain. And rain it did. Loads and loads of it, for a good couple of hours. Luckily and no …

Yes it is: Clair The Cape Queen’s latest acquisition is the 1960s cycle cape bought from Atomic Goose, a Derbyshire shop selling mid-century and vintage décor, curios and, in The Cape Queen’s case, this fabulous cape. It’s already bagged in a place in the Top …

…to be honest it didn’t, because the bandstand was empty apart from Clair The Cape Queen. And despite the sunshine Clair went for her late-‘60s/early-‘70s floral print cape – a guaranteed head-turner each and every time she wears it, so we hear. And in the …

So which is the best cape that’s been featured in Pluvmantelo? We think this early-1970s rubberized satin number is definitely in with a very good shout and Clair The Cape Queen certainly gives it a more than respectable 10 out of 10. True capeists won’t …

Possibly, in the dim and distant past, Clair the Cape Queen was involved with adventurer/spy Modesty Blaise, whose continent-crossing crime-fighting set-up went under the name The Network. No pretence, no long-winded nonsense. The Network. End of. Yes, there was plenty of international derring-do in the …

We do like Jr Walker & The All Stars’ 1972 ‘Walk in the Night’ and here’s Clair the Cape Queen certainly doing that, not far from her Mercia abode. The night was still and cool and the old buildings, with attendant old streetlights, added a …

OK, not the sort you’d have found at the end of the pier in Blackpool in the late 1960s but one that’s equally good – Clair The Cape Queen in a trio of capes, bringing bright colours and more muted hues to Mercia. Expect more …