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Australian indie rock favorites Camp Cope have announced their new live album, Live at Sydney Opera House, commemorating the band's final performance. The Naarm/Melbourne-founded trio will be releasing the album on a limited run, one-time-only vinyl pressing via longtime labels Run For Cover and Poison City, and the full performance will be available digitally only through Bandcamp on October 17th. To make the announcement the group have also shared live versions of "Blue" and "Stove Lighter." 

 

Live at Sydney Opera House captures Camp Cope—Georgia Maq, Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich and Sarah ‘Thomo’ Thompson, alongside their unofficial fourth member, multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Aslett (San Cisco, Julia Jacklin)—diving into their acclaimed catalogue in a performance that included very special guests like Julia Jacklin ("The Screaming Planet" and "Sing Your Heart Out") along with their family and friends. The album also features the only recorded performance of the 10-minute version of "The Opener."

The now Los Angeles-based Georgia Maq who is on the cusp of releasing her new solo EP, God’s Favourite, 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."

On the decision to release Live at Sydney Opera House on vinyl and digitally only via Bandcamp, Sarah ‘Thomo’ Thompson, who also managed the band and to this day is a tireless advocate for independent music and musicians through her work at Poison City Records says, “It felt really important that our last ever full length album was presented in a way that felt like us. From our beginnings rehearsing with amps that we couldn’t hear, our first shows in warehouses and small Melbourne venues, through to touring the world and releasing albums, the one thing that has never changed has been our focus on staying independent. Major streaming platforms such as Spotify have never and will never care about artists, and, no matter how they package themselves, will never care about music or art. Thanks for sticking it out with us as we did things our own way from start to end, this one is for you, not for the industry that tries its best to keep bands like ours from existing.”

Live at Sydney Opera House track listing:

1. Done
2. Blue
3. Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Beams
4. The Screaming Planet (featuring Julia Jacklin)
5. Lost: Season One
6. How to Socialise & Make Friends
7. Sing Your Heart Out
8. Running with the Hurricane
9. The Opener (10 Minute Version)

Digital track list:

1. Done
2. Blue
3. Stove Lighter
4. Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Beams
5. The Mountain
6. The Screaming Planet (feat. Julia Jacklin)
7. Caroline
8. Lost: Season One
9. Anna
10. How to Socialise & Make Friends
11. Keep Growing
12. Jealous
13. Sing Your Heart Out
14. Running with the Hurricane
15. The Opener (10 Minute Version)