Camp CopeCamp Cope used their set at Falls Festival in Byron Bay to call out the lack of female talent on this year's line-up.
While performing their track, The Opener (a song about inequality in the music industry), singer Georgia Maq changed some of the lyrics to call out the annual NYE event.
update: falls organisers respond to camp cope calling out festival for lack of females acts
"It's another man telling us we can't fill up a tent, it's another fucking festival booking only nine women," Maq sang to huge applause from the packed-out crowd.
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The Melbourne trio shared footage from the set on their Instagram and alongside a clip of them performing Lost (Season One), wrote a caption that reads, "maybe they’ll never get it (putting women higher on a bill)".
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The Music has contacted Falls Festival for comment.
The comments come after bass player Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich wrote a guest editorial piece for The Music and discussed Camp Cope's "overall experience being non-male in the music industry".
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Meanwhile the band will kick off a headline tour of Australia this March in support of their forthcoming second studio album, How To Socialise & Make Friends; click on theGuide for a look at all of the dates.





