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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Brodie Lancaster

Georgia Maq on life after Camp Cope: ‘No matter how far I run away, I’m still exactly who I am’

‘I was so abrasive and reactive, and I had so much pressure on me all the time’ … Georgia Maq.
‘I was so abrasive and reactive, and I had so much pressure on me all the time’ … Georgia Maq. Photograph: Lee Dubin

This isn’t a story about a mouthy broad who moved to California and got gentle. But it’s not not that either.

The musician Georgia Maq moved from Melbourne to Los Angeles two years ago, after saying goodbye to her band, Camp Cope, and working as a nurse for two years during the pandemic. The move was prompted as much by television (“I watched The L Word and thought, I want to live in Hollywood”) as an urgent need to not spend her entire life in the place she was born: “I was sick of who I was, really. I wanted a different life for myself.”

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