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CAMP COPE
announce extended
Album Tour Dates in
lutruwita / TASMANIA
this June

Listen to
RUNNING WITH THE HURRICANE

OUT NOW VIA POISON CITY RECORDS

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Photo – Nick Mckk

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Camp Cope, the emo-power trio today announce extended dates of their national album tour in support of their latest album, Running With The Hurricane across lutruwita / Tasmania in late June. Tickets are on sale now. BUY HERE.

The news follows a stream of shows across so-called Australia’s east coast, to riotous reviews of their performances at Meanjin / Brisbane’s Tivoli: “The fact that Camp Cope have remained the same at their core means their fans have stayed loyal”; Eora / Sydney’s Enmore Theatre: “honest, brave and dedicated”; and Naarm / Melbourne’s The Forum: “It’s hard to believe Camp Cope have only been together for little over half a decade.” This June, Georgia Maq, Kelly Hellmrich and Sarah Thompson will take to kanamaluka / Launceston and nipaluna / Hobart for intimate performances of their acclaimed third album. Joining the trio on-stage to perform their recent hits ‘Blue‘, ‘Jealous‘, ‘Running With The Hurricane‘ and more, is highly sought after and award-winning multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Aslett (Julia Jacklin, Stella Donnelly, San Cisco).

Following their critically acclaimed album How to Socialise & Make Friends (2018), Camp Cope’s third LP Running With The Hurricane breathes growth for the trio, both personally and professionally, and sees the band older, wiser, and more at peace with the world. Reflecting on faltered romances,  secret crushes and vibrating with the confidence that makes you feel like you’re on fire. It’s about taking comfort in knowing who you are, feeling yourself and returning, always, to the city of Naarm / Melbourne. If Camp Cope’s self-titled debut (2016) was the spark, and How to Socialise & Make Friends (2018) was the fire, Running With The Hurricane is Camp Cope in the calm after the storm.

It’s release has been met with a stream of praise across tastemakers globally, revelling in the band’s empowering embrace of new sonic and lyrical ground. Across their recording and first live show performances in four years, Camp Cope trades searing vocals and fierce riffs for pianos, multi-instruments, harmonies and more. Previewed through their US television debut on CBS Saturday Mornings and their recent unhesitant cover of Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Under‘ for triple j’s Like A Version. Camp Cope’s shows across lutruwita / Tasmania will precede their upcoming North American tour in July, for all remaining tour routing details and purchase links, SEE BELOW.

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Running With The Hurricane LP is out now, buy/stream it here.

TRACKLIST

Caroline
Running with the Hurricane
One Wink at a Time
Blue
The Screaming Planet
Love Like You Do
Jealous
The Mountain
Say the Line
Sing Your Heart Out

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TOUR DATES

Fri 24 Jun – Royal Oak – kanamaluka / Launceston
Sat 25 Jun – Republic Bar – nipaluna / Hobart
Fri 8 Jul – Paradise Rock Club – Shawmut / Boston
Sat 9 Jul – Lost Horizon – Onondaga Land / Syracuse
Sun 10 Jul – Danforth Music Hall – Tkaronto / Toronto*
Mon 11 Jul – Horseshoe Tavern – Tkaronto / Toronto
Wed 13 Jul – Corona Theatre – Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal*
Fri 15 Jul – Pitchfork Music Festival – shikaakwa / Chicago
Sun 17 Jul – The Burl – Shawnee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Osage Land / Lexington*
Tue 19 Jul – Black Cat – Nacotchtank Land / Washington
Wed 20 Jul – Webster Hall – Lenape Land / New York
Fri 22 Jul – Union Transfer – Coaquannock / Philadelphia
Sat 23 Jul – Ace of Cups – Erie, Kiikaapoa, Shawnee Land / Columbus
Sun 24 Jul – X-Ray Arcade – Millioke / Milwaukee
Mon 25 Jul – Fine Line – Dakhóta / Minneapolis
Fri 29 Jul – Rickshaw Theatre – Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Land / Vancouver
Sat 30 Jul – The Crocodile – Si’ahl / Seattle
Sun 31 Jul – Wonder Ballroom – Chinookan Land / Portland
Tue 2 Aug – Great American Music Hall – Ohlone Land / San Francisco
Wed 3 Aug – Regen Theater – Tongva Land / Los Angeles

*supporting Lucy Dacus

Tickets available HERE

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Follow CAMP COPE
Website – Facebook – Instagram – Bandcamp

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About CAMP COPE

Founded in Melbourne over home job tattoos, Camp Cope – Georgia Maq (songwriter, vocals, piano, acoustic & electric guitar), Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich (lead bass guitar) and Sarah Thompson (drums & percussion) – have been a force since the release of their self-titled debut album Camp Cope (2016). Their critically-acclaimed follow-up How to Socialise & Make Friends (2018) debuted at #6 on the ARIA Charts with incredible international acclaim including NPR (“Every unpolished moment stuns with turn-of-age earnestness”), The New Yorker (“The words, as raw as the band’s nervy energy, spill out as though she’s been holding them in forever”) and The Guardian (“In 20 years, young women especially will approach her and thank Camp Cope for encouraging them to pick up a guitar and tell their own stories”). Widely loved both in Australia and abroad and the album’s galvanising lead single, ‘The Opener’, shook up the Australian music industry.

Both global and personal circumstances prompted Camp Cope’s change of perspective when work on Running With The Hurricane began in late 2019 – but when the pandemic struck a few months later, it forced a hiatus. The world had stopped and suddenly, there was no rush to get an album out and head back on the road. The trio got to just create art for art’s sake, without worrying about how it would perform. But it wasn’t just time Camp Cope had on their side.

Running With The Hurricane finds the trio more confident and more skilled than ever before. Making the album the band knew their instruments like the backs of their hands; they were assured enough to ask for what they wanted in the studio. After years of fierce friendship and often relentless tour schedules, they had become innately comfortable as collaborators. Together they levelled up their skills, approach and sound. The resulting sound is still recognisably Camp Cope, just a little softer, a bit more relaxed and much more refined. Running With The Hurricane is an album concerned more with creating beauty than noise and, undoubtedly, is their strongest work yet.

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AMNPLIFY – DB