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 (including Care Bears) to create a vague dreamlike narrative. The video was put together using old VHS footage. 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 “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.” 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. As of writing, this is the only known recorded live version of the song. Based on this show, performances of the song were much more heavy and distorted than the studio version. According to Reddit posts, 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.