LIVE AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

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.
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."