She’s winning ARIAs, stealing the show at Glastonbury, collaborating with Gucci and rocking the world with her expletive-laden polemics, headbanging and chaos. But for this erstwhile supermarket worker, the best thing ever? Reading books. Via GoodWeeke...
After a few years playing small festivals and support slots, Amyl and the Sniffers is now a band that swaggers into Coachella, steals the show at Glastonbury, and sells out solo gigs in 5000-plus venues, with a unique mix of cross-generational fans – teenage mohawks and pigtails mingling with the salt-and-pepper scalps of dads and mums .
She liked school a little, though less as the years wore on. “I liked using my brain. But I guess I just didn’t completely believe in what it represented. It’s that feeling – ‘F--- school, f--- peers – whatever that is, that’s not me.’ ”Credit:Music wasn’t a big part of her early life. Her mum played flute in nursing homes as a volunteer, and her dad listened to petrol-station-bought greatest hits CDs .
But she was always going to do something else, somewhere else. “When you grow up in Mullum, there’s no overseas trips, no holidays. That’s how it goes,” Wilson says. “To earn enough money to leave town is important. Amy thrived on the work. She knew she needed to do that all along – earn money to get out.”
Taylor with fellow members of Amyl and the Sniffers, guitarist Dec Martens, 28, drummer Bryce Wilson, 27, and bassist Gus Romer, 26.They wrote their first songs in early 2016 on the back of a few chords and a few more lyrics, and found their sound: short, fast, loud, funny. They picked a band name, too. The first line of Taylor’s driver’s licence reads “Amy L”, which is pretty close to amyl nitrate, the drug many of their mates were sniffing at clubs.
A live touring act in their own right, they played 103 shows in 2019, and tried to appreciate their travels, whether shopping in the open markets of Barcelona, or getting off the train in Zurich and washing away a hangover with a swim in the clearest water imaginable.They became much better musicians, too, not by practice but by playing four shows a week for months on end. “You just get shit-hot,” says Romer. “You get in the pocket because you’re playing every night.
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