A music video by Jason Galea (credited to Zonkvision) was released on July 30th, 2013. Featuring Galea’s usual psychedelic visuals, it utilizes footage taken from various VHS tapes to create a vague dreamlike narrative. Galea said “I tried to make it feel like it does when you’ve got to wake up at 7:30am and go to a 9 to 5 job… you fall asleep and start dreaming then the snooze goes off.” He also said of the video’s narrative “the baseball bats scene is kind of like dreaming about fighting your boss… it ends with the person going crazy from the 9 to 5 crunch.”
While Jason Galea nor the band ever specified what tapes were used, a majority of the clips come from Science Fiction Trilogy, a direct-to-video short film compilation featuring Teach 109, The Price of Life and The Ivory Tower. The music video is mostly comprised of Teach 109 and The Ivory Tower though The Price of Life briefly appears at the one minute mark. Outside of this, the animated segments were taken from The Care Bears Movie while the explosions, fly-through spaceship and cybernetic soldiers are from Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (notably the episode “And Madness Shall Reign”). Everything else, such as the 7:30 text and the static, were most likely done by Galea (note how certain effects are in a larger aspect ratio than the VHS rips).
Alongside the video was a single release, making “30 Past 7” the second single from Float Along — Fill Your Lungs, which was released on September 27th, 2013.

“30 Past 7” was played a handful of times in 2013 with its first reported appearance on 2013-08-21 at Bar Open in Naarm (Melbourne). The first confirmed appearance was on 2013-08-22 at Goodgod Small Club in Eora (Sydney). The song was played almost exclusively during full performances of Float Along — Fill Your Lungs, though a performance from 2013-11-13 for Triple R Radio was done in a set of Float Along and Eyes Like the Sky material. Performances from this time were much more heavy and distorted than the studio version.
Following 2013, “30 Past 7” would disappear from setlists, though it would come up again as a possible bust out. The song may have been planned for 2020 based on Joey’s “Sea of Trees” playlist. Stu said before the premiere of the “Astroturf” music video that he was interested in playing the song in 2023, though this never happened. In the live chat before the debut of the music video for the GUM/Ambrose track “Ill Times,” Ambrose said that he had doubts that “30 Past 7” would be played in 2024.