Camp Cope announce "Live at Sydney Opera House", out 10/17

Available digitally exclusively through Bandcamp

Pre-order "Live at Sydney Opera House" Vinyl 

Naarm/Melbourne-founded power-emo trio Camp Cope are thrilled to announce their final show at Sydney Opera House will be released on limited run, one-time-only vinyl pressing via longtime labels Poison City Records and Run For Cover Records, and the full performance available digitally only through Bandcamp. Camp Cope Live at Sydney Opera House is out October 17, pre-order now from HERE. Full track list details are below, and once the vinyl is gone, it’s gone.

Camp Cope - Georgia Maq, Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich and Sarah ‘Thomo’ Thompson, alongside their unofficial fourth member, multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Aslett (San Cisco, Julia Jacklin) dive into their acclaimed catalogue spanning three studio albums - Camp Cope (2016), How To Socialise & Make Friends (2018), Running with the Hurricane (2022) - and the 7” split with Cayetana (2017) in the performance with very special guests including Julia Jacklin (‘The Screaming Planet’, ‘Sing Your Heart Out’) and their family and friends.

Camp Cope Live at Sydney Opera House also features the only recorded performance of the 10-minute version of The Opener, an extended cut Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen noted for The Guardian gave “additional insights into the troubling, insidious signs and a glimpse into the heartbroken, hurt young woman she [Georgia Maq] was… from frail hurt to rage, fury and self-affirmation, Maq transformed to take the power back. It was a beautiful and symbolic way for the song, and the band, to farewell the world – something that started as one woman’s way to heal and became a collective cry for something better.”

On the release of Camp Cope Live at Sydney Opera House, the now Los Angeles-based Georgia Maq who is on the cusp of releasing her new solo EP God’s Favourite (Sept 4) shares, “This release is special because it's a record of the very last time we were in a room together. Kelly and Thomo changed me and the three of us will always be Camp Cope.” Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich, who recently announced her debut book has been acquired by Penguin Random House, adds, “There was a time they said we’d ruined our careers for being too loud, too opinionated. Then we sold out the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House, with a room full of people who’d probably been told they were too much of something. Too loud, too weird, too soft, too angry, too emotional, too queer, too honest. I’m so grateful this album exists as a forever record of the night we all loudly filled one of the greatest rooms in the country with everything they had wanted to silence."

PRAISE FOR CAMP COPE'S FINAL SHOW

“Camp Cope might be hanging up their hats, but they’re leaving behind a legacy… a joyous, affirming celebration” - The Guardian (★★★★★)

“I genuinely feel like Camp Cope will be looked back on as one of the great Australian bands that will impact on so many young people in the future. Their stories and music remain undefeated. Thank you Camp Cope.” - The AU Review (★★★★★)

“perfect bookend in the eight years of Camp Cope… their final show was an emotional event; as someone who has spent 25 years working in the Australian music industry, and someone who has had their life saved by music on more than one occasion, but also someone who has faced a big ol' pile of misogyny as both a professional and a punter, having a band that dragged it all out into the open, where it can never be shoved back in and ignored, it so very important.” - Scenestr

“Camp Cope performed their final show in the way they always existed: unpretentious, no egos, no encores, a little bit cheeky, unafraid to challenge the status quo, without histrionics and pyro, and completely authentic to who they always were: three friends who happened to make great punk tunes.” - The Music