When you see and hear Amy Taylor, the figurehead of Amyl & The Sniffers, it’s impossible not to think of Wendy O. Williams (1949-1998), an 80s punk icon with very similar characteristics: wild, provocative, warrior, super sexy. Four decades later, an Australian singer is doing it again, with vintage clothes and hair.
Amyl & the Sniffers are said to have started out as a local Australian (Melbourne) garage punk bar band that has since become one of the most powerful machines on the punk planet. At the beginning of PAN M 360, our esteemed colleague Patrick Baillargeon had already sensed the potential of this band with “a lot of youthful fury, a lot of sweat and sex appeal in mass”. ( https://panm360.com/records/amyl-the-sniffers/ ) Well sent!
Indeed, we feel very strongly this taste for guitars hewn with an axe, this taste for heavy 4/4, this taste for distortion galore, this taste for partying, this taste for irreverence. Nothing else.
The punk party could have ended in a fizzle when a threat of an electrical storm forced a break of about fifteen minutes. Fortunately, the expected storm did not occur and the Australian band was able to resume hostilities and continue stripping to the great pleasure of the rock fans who came to Osheaga on Sunday. With only 2 studio albums to support it, the second of which, Comfort to Me , was released in 2021, Amyl & The Sniffers attracts the crowds again with the recent release of the songs U Should Not Be Doing That and Facts, served at Osheaga. Great rock performance!
Photo Credit: Osheaga
