AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS love it loud, angry, sexy and head-on!

16. September 2021

Amyl And The Sniffers

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS lieben es laut, wütend, sexy und frontal!

On stage Amy Taylor has something of a dervish: she prefers to wear nothing but hot pants, bikini tops and a blonde mullet, screams her head off, swears and curses like a barker or puts overly intrusive (male) concertgoers in their place with punches and kicks. In other words: a force of nature, reminiscent of Wendy O. Williams from the Plasmatics, who once beguiled even Lemmy. That's why she's unrecognizable in person: a rather shy, unbelievably friendly and eager 26-year-old from Melbourne, who seems as if she couldn't hold back a drop of water

"Actually, I'm a very fun-loving, positive person. But I also love hardcore, punk and metal. This music is like a catalyst or an outlet for me - it gives me power and might. And it helps me live out a side of me that would otherwise come up short: namely, putting my anger or frustration about certain things into words and throwing it right in people's faces!" After all, her homeland Australia - as a former penal colony - is still a country that propagates open sexism, where medieval abortion laws prevail, where the consequences of climate change are still not understood and where the indigenous people, the Aborigines, are treated like second-class people ...

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