Summer Camp Call It Quits

Kate Cox

Summer Camp Call It Quits

Kate Cox

Summer Camp are calling it quits. The British duo, made up of married couple Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey, are playing a farewell show in London next month. To usher in the end of the band, they have re-released the first song they ever recorded, a cover of the Flamingos’ “I Only Have Eyes For You.”

“In October 2009 when Jeremy was on tour with a solo album, Elizabeth made him a playlist that included one of her favourite songs, ‘I Only Have Eyes For You,'” they wrote in their newsletter. “A few weeks later we decided to record a cover of the song, just for fun. We were proud of it so we put it on Myspace with a fake bio saying we were 7 friends from Sweden who met at summer camp. 13 years later we have released 4 albums, played gigs all over the world, met so many wonderful people, got married and had a son.”

Summer Camp released their debut EP, Young, in 2010. In 2011, they followed that up with their debut full-length, Welcome To Condale, which came with a whole conceptual framework about a fictional Californian town steeped in nostalgia for the American suburbs that was largely lifted from movies and television. Later on in their career, they’d channel those cinematic influences into a soundtrack for the Charlie Lyne-directed teen culture documentary Beyond Clueless and, eventually, Sankey directed her own documentary about rom-coms called Romantic Comedy.

They released three more albums after Welcome To Condole: 2013’s self-titled, 2015’s Bad Love, and Romantic Comedy, which was released in 2020 and was a companion to the doc of the same name. Warmsley is still making music under his own name and composing for various different types of media — he’s currently in the middle of putting out an album inspired by the life of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. And earlier this year, Sankey directed a film for Channel 4 called Boobs.

Summer Camp’s farewell show will take place on September 21 at Moth Club in London.

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