Melbourne based punk-trio Camp Cope lead waves in 2017. Press reported the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival had introduced a harassment hotline in collaboration with Camp Cope. 1800-Laneway was a hotline which acted as a means for “patrons to report and escalate any inappropriate or disrespectful behaviour”.
The initiative was simple: any festival attendee who experiences disrespect, threatening behaviour, abuse or assault is asked to call 1800 LANEWAY. Laneway Festival launched a video with Camp Cope explaining the program and encouraging visibility of the issue. The video also featured Ella Thomspon (of GL), and singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin.
The band also started the reactionary hashtag trend #ItTakesOne, to draw awareness to disturbing behaviour trends at local gigs. Spearheading the campaign, Camp Cope had enough of “the dickhead-ery that’s ruining live music”.
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