Australian punk rock quartet Amyl & The Sniffers have today announced a big UK/EU tour, hot on the heels of their first new music in almost three years.
New single U Should Not Be Doing That debuted as Jack Saunders’ Hottest Record on Radio 1 and immediately hit the BBC 6 Music A-List.
The band played an explosive headline set at Bearded Theory on Sunday, literally framed in fireworks, before travelling to London for a wild and sweaty show at The Scala last night, which was only announced two weeks ago and sold out in three minutes.
Amyl and The Sniffers have now announced a full UK/European tour for November, with tickets going on sale at 10am this Friday, May 31 from amylandthesniffers.com. Fans can sign up to the mailing list for pre-sale access this week.
The new single was recorded with Nick Launay (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and is the first new music from the Melbourne foursome since 2021 album Comfort To Me.
U Should Not Be Doing That has hints of The Stones’ Miss You, a whiff of Detroit garage grit, topped by distinctive vocals.
Vocalist Amy Taylor said: “U Should Not Be Doing That makes me laugh, but it’s also in a way poking fun at the shock that people still feel at a little bit of skimpy clothing, and the bitchy high school way that the music community still is.
“Yes, I’m talking to you random 40-year-old metalheads sitting around a table doing lines and bitching about a 28-year old-chick in a band for wearing shorts and ‘selling out’, but it mainly makes me laugh.
“It’s unconscious and meant nothing at the time of writing it, but now I think it’s a comedic way of rubbing the dog’s nose in its own dog piss after it weed on your favourite rug or something.”
Amyl & The Sniffers tour Europe in June, North America in July/August, including supporting the Foo Fighters, with November UK dates as follows:
