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HOPE D
shares new single
‘HAPPY HANGOVER’

+ Performing headline
shows this OCTOBER

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HOPE D // Image Credit: Casey Garnsey

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“…songs that could be described as exaggeratedly honest.” – NME

“…gave us an immediate ‘this is something special’ reaction that we haven’t felt in a little while now.” – PILERATS

“Another attention grabber right from the start. The flow is great, and the lyrics fly out effortlessly..” – RICHARD KINGSMILL, TRIPLE J

“Brisbane’s Hope D has spent the last two years quietly becoming one of the most exciting musicians in Australia.” – MUSIC JUNKEE

“Have one listen to Hope D and her success makes sense.” – PURPLE SNEAKERS

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Following on from the success of her debut EP Cash Only, featuring the singles ‘Second’ and ‘Addict’, Brisbane based singer/songwriter Hope D has today shared her latest offering, the intoxicating ‘Happy Hangover’, which she co wrote with close friend G Flip. She’s also excited to announce tour dates for a handful of shows in her home state of Queensland at the end of October, tickets and more information HERE.

Hope D describes the playful premise behind the track, “The song is about fully tripping out and having experiences that will later become nostalgic.  The lyrics aren’t meant to make too much sense, just like the conversations you have when you aren’t really on earth on a night like that. Yet they always come back to questioning “if this is really happening?”, because you’re having a great time. For me, the memories around that night are one that will always be very highly rated In my lifetime, so I am so stoked that we were able to make the memories into a really fun song.”

She also explains how thrilled she is to play the first run of shows as part of the ‘Happy Hangover’ tour, “I am so incredibly excited to play these shows in QLD with people that I absolutely adore. I’m a huge fan of Melaleuca, Rose Rogers and KARLOU, and I am already keen to watch them all smash it and fanging to sink beers in the green rooms together. I’m going to bring a lot of new material to these shows and have a bunch of fun visual aspects to feast your eyes on. The band and I are going to have so much fun and banter on stage, I can’t wait for you all to be a part of it too. And as for the day after these shows, let us all be happily hungover together. Maccas on me!”

Introducing herself in late 2019 with her debut single ‘Swim’, Hope D captivated audiences with her eclectic capability to create purposeful, confessional and captivating music. This release led her to taking home the inaugural Queensland Music Awards Emerging Artist Of The Year Award, performances at BIGSOUND 2019, Splendour In The Grass, Laneway Festival and King Street Crawl, as well as sold-out headline shows in her hometown Brisbane.

The beginning of 2020 saw her release an aptly titled second single named ‘Second’ and then follow up tracks ‘Common Denominator’ and ‘Miscommunicate’, once again wowing and surprising fans by her change in sound, but maintaining the same inviting charm and razor-sharp wit through her authentically honest, raw and relatable songs. Hope ended 2020 by winning the prestigious Carol Lloyd Award, an initiative aimed to address the gender imbalance in music and support an emerging female-identifying or non-binary singer-songwriter. 

Hope’s single ‘Second’ landed at #69 in triple j’s Hottest 100 for 2020. Off the back of her debut EP Cash Only Hope took off on a sold-out national tour playing 19 shows in three weeks in March 2021.  The single ‘Addict’ received a full addition to triple j and Hope was widely praised for her cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ she performed for Like A Version, earlier this year.

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Hope D ‘Happy Hangover’
Tour Dates

Tickets and Info HERE

Friday 29th October – The Tivoli, Brisbane, QLD with Melaleuca & Rose Rogers
Saturday 30th October – Solbar, Sunshine Coast, QLD with Melaleuca & KARLOU
Sunday 31st October – Miami Marketta, Gold Coast, QLD with Melaleuca & Rose Rogers

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AMNPLIFY – JC