Amyl and the Sniffers take to the stage of a packed out National Stadium. The bastard child of Iggy Pop and Wendy O. Williams doesn’t stay still for a second as she leads her crossbreed of The Stooges, The Dead Boys and AC/DC through a filthy set of high-voltage proto-punk. There’s an Aussie sound that’s distinctly indefinable (The Saints, Cosmic Psychos, The Chats, The Birthday Party, AC/DC) and the Sniffers have it big time. Dirty and basic. One could easily be mistaken for thinking they’re at a 1970s gig. The only thing that differentiates it the absence of gob and beer hitting the stage.
Amyl and the Sniffers photos & Set-list:
Set-list:
Shook Ones, Pt. II (Tapped intro)
Doing in Me Head
Freaks to the Front
Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled)
Jerkin’
Do It Do It
Security
Guided by Angels
Knifey
Bailing on Me
Maggot
Motorbike Song
Chewing Gum
Big Dreams
It’s Mine
Got You
Tiny Bikini
Me and The Girls
U Should Not Be Doing That
Facts
Hertz
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Balaclava Lover Boogie
GFY
Old Man Emu (John Williamson song Tapped outro)
Photos & words – Cormac Figgis @themasterswitch