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It was it was like a 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.119 big hot lump of like dough. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.200 Hello and welcome to Midnight Chats, a podcast of casual 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:20.000 interviews with leading musicians, published weekly at midnight to suit 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:25.240 these informal and often under researched conversations. This week's episode 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.679 is hosted by me Stuart Stubbs, editor of Loud and 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.840 Quiet magazine. Joining me on tonight's episode of the podcast 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.840 is Amy Taylor, singer and front woman of Australian punk 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.600 band Ammel and the Sniffers. Amy formed the band back 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.800 in twenty sixteen with her then housemates who really just 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.200 wanted something to do. They formed a band to play 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.720 shows for their friends in gardens and houses and didn't 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.240 really expect it to go any further than that. But 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.120 once they put out a couple of EPs together, they 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.960 got signed to Rough Trade here in the UK, who 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.640 released the band's debut album a couple of years ago. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.840 That one was simply called Amel and the Sniffers, and 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.079 in September of this year they will be releasing that 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.120 the follow up record, it's called Comfort to Me. It 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:16.200 was recorded throughout lockdown in Melbourne, and it was Melbourne 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.600 where Amy spoke to me from just yesterday. She was 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:25.280 in Melbourne, I was here in sticky, sweaty London and 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.000 we spoke a bit about comfort to me. We spoke 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:33.240 about her love for rap music and bugs, all sorts 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.639 of things as well. There are some links below, as 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.600 per usual Zoo click on those it will make sense 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.760 of some more of this. If you are not familiar 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.040 with Amy and her work, they're a great band. They 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.520 have some shows that will hopefully happen later this year 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.640 here in the UK that currently set for November and 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:01.320 hopefully will happen COVID pandemic permitting. This is also the 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.240 last episode in this series of midnight Chats. We will 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.600 be back a little bit later in the year, but 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.480 for now we are done. Thank you for listening over 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.840 the last nine weeks. If you're new to us and 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.160 you're finding us now for the first time, there's one 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.120 hundred and twelve previous episodes for you to dive into. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.800 Please do let us know what you think. Drop us 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.400 a line. We are on social media channels as Loud 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.440 on Quiet mag and tell a friend if you enjoy it. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.840 Thank you to Amy for this episode. Thanks for downloading 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:35.040 and listening to you. I should say just before we start, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:40.200 there's some pretty appalling language here, so fair warning. If 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.160 that is not for you, now is the time to 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.160 turn back. If it is, then onward. This is Amy 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.720 Taylor on episode one hundred and thirteen of Midnight Chats. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.920 Bes beIN pretty chill. We're back in lockdown now. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.880 Side pretty much just fucked you around at home and 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.680 then went for a couple of walks and a little run. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.360 And that's pretty much the extent of it. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.560 You do you guys also live in a house together, right, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:11.640 the whole band lives together? 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.000 We did, but we don't anymore. That's all gone. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.880 That's all that's to the house got demolished, so we 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:18.000 all had to scurry away. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.680 The house got demolished. Wow. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:21.719 Yeah, it was a pretty old house. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.320 So we moved in knowing the terms that it had 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:25.680 to get knocked down at some point and. 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:26.640 Then off it went. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.640 Right, So when did so? When did you did you? 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.039 Were you living together through this whole lockdown period or 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.560 did it? Did you move out before that? 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.000 Yeah, we were living together during the whole thing, but 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:37.960 I moved out a bit earlier because I was living 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.880 it was like a three bedroom house with a shed 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.000 out the back right, and so we were taking terms 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.719 of doing the shed and then so the guitarist was 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.000 in the shed and then I swat with him and 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.000 it was during winter and like lockdown, and there was 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.000 all these like fucked up bugs and stuff in there. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:53.920 So I was like, I think I'm just going to 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.000 try and find somewhere else. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.120 Shit, Okay, what kind of bugs or what kind of 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.559 bugs are we talking? Is Melbourne? It's Melbourne bad for bugs. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.840 I've been to Melbourne's the only place in Australia I've 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.039 been to actually, and I didn't come across any bad bugs. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:12.120 But I was there summer time. Is this a winter bugs? 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.360 Don't bother me too much, but I think it's pretty 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.799 good for bugs. Like you never see spiders here really, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.440 oh a couple of little ones, and you don't really 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.360 see that many bugs either. Now thinking about it, cockroaches 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.039 there everywhere, but not in the place I'm at. Now. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.239 I like the idea that you what, what Australians consider 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:33.559 a small bug us weedy Brits would consider absolutely huge 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.680 and terrifying because we're we're just like we're not equipped 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.320 to deal with well anything really, but especially like the 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.919 bugs of Australia. That are the kind of things that, yeah, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.080 that's scares some people off from going there, which is 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.359 a shame. But so you were in the so I 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.080 get okay, right, I get it. So sometimes your bedroom 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:52.400 was a shed, so you were like, I need to 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:53.560 get I need to get out of here. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:54.880 Really, yeah, that. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.760 Was like albino cockroachs has fallen from the roof. And 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.760 then a couple of months after I moved out, I 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.479 do called what they were and apparently when cockroaches live 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.120 long enough, they shed their skin and turn albino and 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.159 they have no shell and they go and live in 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.760 a place which is like in like not habitable for 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.640 humans because then they don't get danger. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.719 Right, So you were living in a place that wasn't 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.279 even considered habitable for humans, which is why there were 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:23.800 albino cockroaches there. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.800 Yeah, by the cockroaches standard, I should not have been 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:27.400 sleep in there. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.760 Well, judging by the scene behind you, looks like you're 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.280 in a really nice place now, so that's great. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.800 Fucking lovely. Yeah, yeah, but I'm moving out soon. I 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.720 was just actually googling real estate dot com. But living 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:39.640 in here for now. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.560 Nice if I understand this's right, You guys, when you 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.800 came off to it, you'd like toured solidly for like 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.440 a year or two, and then you moved back into 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.520 your house together and then lockdown here and you were 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.479 kind of stuck together in the house. I mean, that 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.960 must have been. That must have been intense anyway, because 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.560 once I imagine when you're in a band, you're on the 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.600 road all the time, you're living in each other's pockets 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.920 in a van, and then you're going, like it's quite 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.599 extreme to go back and live with the band as well, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.039 like you've got no time a part. How was it 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.280 an intense intense period? You obviously get on very well. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:12.360 We get on really well. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.720 But I think it was intense only because we had 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.640 no outside influence, Like it was just us four. We 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.320 literally had no more sentences to string together between each other. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.720 Like it'd be like it was just like sharing a 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:24.640 room with a bunch. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.280 Of furniture, like nothing to say, you know, when there's 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.800 like four different colors of play though, yeah, and you 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.760 mush it together and it becomes brown. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.000 It was that That's what happened to us. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:41.440 Yeah, I can imagine. Yet there's only so much to say. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.240 So this is probably good for the band that have 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.200 you all moved apart or the boys still together? 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.360 No, yeah, we've all moved apart. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.080 I think it's been really good for us because we're 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.560 becoming fully grown humans. Yeah, like we're just like each 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.840 other's only everything. So it's nice now because you can 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.680 actually catch up and be like, what have you been doing, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:58.680 what are you been listening to? 0:07:58.800 --> 0:07:59.520 What have you been watching? 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.920 But when you live together, you've all watched, seen, and heard. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.680 All your senses only saw the same thing. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.000 Yeah, you know exactly what they've been up to because 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.360 you're living in the shed and they're indoors and you 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.560 know that's what they've been doing. You guys were living 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.800 together before the band, right you you shared a house 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.960 before you and you formed a band from being housemates. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.440 Yeah, that's right, but we had a different bass player then, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.440 so when we formed, we were living together. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.480 But then we like all moved away for like three 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:28.200 years or whatever. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.400 How did that happen? Because am I right? This is 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:31.120 your first band? 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:31.400 Right? 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:32.800 Yeah? It is pretty much? 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.080 Yeah, had you wanted to be in a band before this? 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.319 And it hadn't happened or was this a pure accident 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.520 of like just hanging out with your friends who are 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.760 your housemates and they played music, so you just got 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:44.920 involved a bit of both. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.720 Really like, I really wanted to be in a band 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.720 and stuff, and I always wanted to do something, but 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.080 I like couldn't play instruments, but I'd get drunk and 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.520 stuff and then just like wrap or grab them microphone 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.319 at a gig and just like sing a song or whatever. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.240 But then at the same time, I was like, I 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.920 want to do this, It'll be fun. And then yeah, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.839 the boys all played and so I was just kind 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.240 of a coincidence at the same time. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:07.640 Really like, it wasn't. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:08.959 Like I didn't hold a gun to their head and 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.720 it was like make me a band, bitch. It was 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.360 just more like, Oh, let's all have start a house 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.079 band so we can play at house parties and stuff. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.040 Because a bunch of the people we hung around did 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.880 like backyard shows and stuff like that, so we were like, oh, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:22.960 we want to do that too. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.120 Melbourne's got a bit of a scene for that, right, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.240 the kind of backyard show scene. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.480 Yeah, there was, and they did, but I don't know 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.440 what the hell is going to happen after all this stuff. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.480 Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. How many How's Melbourne been 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.400 doing generally through the thing? 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:38.000 Ah? 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.080 Yeah, we had like we had one of the most 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.559 strictest lockdowns in the world. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.719 I believe like we had eight PM care few were 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:45.040 in it. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.880 For months and months and months, and I think Melbourne 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:49.800 got pretty fucked up by it. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.720 I reckon, it's safe to say, how did you cope 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:51.920 with it? 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.240 How we how have you done? 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:53.360 You? 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.400 Are you okay? Are feeling all right? 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.760 No? It really fucked me up. I was shouted. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.600 I was like shadowed last year and it still makes 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.880 me shout when we got to lockdown and staff because 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.280 I just want to actually like experience life. I can 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.439 definitely stay positive, but last year really fucking cooked me. Yeah. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.439 Yeah, we've exited lockdown today. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.520 Today's free to congratulated. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:14.520 Freedom done. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.600 But you feel weird about it, right because it's not. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.360 The numbers are pretty high ut. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.720 Till someone was saying, yeah, yeah, it's a terrible idea. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:27.400 We've basic a government of basically kind of fucked the 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.000 situation from the beginning. But right now I think they've 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.439 just got bored and they've just gone right, let's just 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.280 see what happens. But it's kind of weird because it 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.960 feels like today, I think the world is watching the 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.440 UK from now to see what this is, what happens 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.160 when a country decides to just make a run for it, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.840 And I hope, you know, I hope we I hope 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.040 we do well. I hope it's I've got a horrible 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.200 feeling we're going to be back to square one within 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.920 four to six weeks. But we'll see. But for now, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.280 there's a weird there's a weird vibe today as a 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.040 weird vibe out yesterday. It's really hot here as well 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.240 at the moment it's for us, it's very hot. So yeah, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.920 it's just a strange feeling in the air. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.640 But hope it's been pretty exciting. It'd be an exciting 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:13.680 feeling in a weird way. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.880 Yeah, it kind of is. Give it a go, Yeah exactly, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.240 We'll give it a go and see what happens. Because 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.400 you started the band to like just play in like 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.040 backyards and friends parties and stuff like that, I read 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.360 that you didn't really expect to ever be playing like 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.280 proper shows proper quote unquote, you know, big shows and stuff. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.120 We just didn't really think that far ahead, like we're like, oh, yeah, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.439 it'll be fun to play or whatever. Let's just start 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.160 and see what happens, and just yeah, everything that kind 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.320 of happens is always a surprise in a way. Like 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.960 not to disrespect how hard we work, because it really 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.400 do work hard, but definitely, like even at the start 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.120 would get played on like one radio station and would 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.320 be like, oh my god, like we're on a radio station. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:56.400 And yeah. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.040 I remember we got booked for like our first show, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.559 and we had an what to do and like how 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.520 to play and stuff like that, and we played it 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.120 for ten minutes and the guy at the bar I remember, 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.800 hill was like, is that all you're playing for? Like, yeah, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.840 it's like normally people play for half an hour. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:11.680 Well, we don't have that. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.319 We've only got four songs. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.720 I love that. I like it when bands. I like 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.480 it when you see punk bands who are clearly using 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.440 that they're playing gigs instead of rehearsing almost you know, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:28.040 like to that extent, And I think it's great. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:29.040 I was asked for sure. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.520 Yeah, Like you go and see a show and as 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.880 you say, they play like four songs ten minutes, it's done. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.160 I'm personally a big fan of a short show. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.360 Yeah, I like that too. I don't want to hear 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.800 too much or say too much. I want like new 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:41.880 stuff every half hour. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.160 Yeah, you know, your back starts to wake, your legs 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.760 start to go, like I've seen. Have you been to 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.120 any shows like big shows where it's normally big heritage bands, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.040 isn't it? I guess where they've got loads of songs 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.360 to churn through. But have you ever been to one 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.160 way it's just gone on forever? 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:00.600 Yes and no. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.000 I'd probably liked saying a band that played for an 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.720 hour and I remember thinking like, come. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:10.080 On, come on, wrap it up. I saw The Cure 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.120 Notoriously play for a really long time. I think I 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.160 saw them play for maybe three and a half hours. Whoa, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.440 I know, steep roight crazy, I know. But it was 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.520 at the Royal albert Hall. This was what was good 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.080 about it was that the Royal Alberhor so everyone had 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.000 a seat. I had a really good seat, a great view, 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.600 and there was no one sat next to me, so 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.520 I actually quite enjoyed it. But at the end of it, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.480 I felt like I'd been on like a long haul flight. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.959 I felt like everyone had kicked that shoes off. People 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.320 were just wandering around. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.559 Well, that's a really long time, Like even long movies 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.000 don't go. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:44.520 For that long. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.920 I know, I know, right it was. It was intense. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.840 I think that's the only one where I've it's been 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.920 really long and I've gone Actually I'm okay with this 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.440 because of the surroundings. But I'm with you, Like I 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.560 just think, once you get to forty five minutes max, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:01.480 are you do? You guys do? 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.920 On course, yeah we do if they want them usually 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.959 we do as well. Like our sets usually on the 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.880 go for forty five to fifty five minutes because it's 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.000 just a different setup. With punk bands, I think, like 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.079 there's so much energy going out. It's like we're not 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:14.800 going to play for. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.440 Longer than an hour ten minutes, but we'll do an 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.880 encore feotball ask. I like doing them. It's exciting. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.280 Yeah, I like an encore. I know some people are 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.840 dead against them. The Strokes are like a very anti 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.440 on care I think I think the Manics maybe are, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.520 But I like that theater of it. I mean, I know, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.160 obviously of course the band are coming back on no 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.720 one's that they've left. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.760 But lottimes we don't like our bass player Gusts. He's 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.440 like no on calls most of the time. But I 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.880 just like doing them because people are like, you know, 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.360 yelling and it's all exciting and you're like, ah, people 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:45.880 want to see it. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.440 Let's get so. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.360 Now. What's what I think is amazing about Amona Sniffers 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.680 is you started in that way and you're now you're 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.560 about to support food Fighters in a huge football stadium. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:58.520 That's right. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:00.760 When is that show is that? 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.640 I think it's next twenty twenty two. I don't know when, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:05.720 maybe June or something. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.840 It's in like Madrid, right, it's like a European yeah, 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:10.360 with I. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.480 Think Noel Gallagher or something Lam Gallagher. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.200 Yeah, it's you Liam and food Fighters. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.480 How just me and the boys? Yeah? 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.920 Have you thought much about like what that show is 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.720 going to be like? Because obviously you guys are like 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.080 so suited to a small venue, sweaty venue where you 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.480 can especially where you can jump in the crowd, you know, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.840 and you can have that interaction, and this is going 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.880 to be something totally different for you, Like, have you 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.480 thought much about it yet or is it too far away? 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.680 Well, we've actually finally enough actually supported the food Fighters 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.000 before in Adelaide in Australia, right, and that was really 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:47.720 early on I. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.000 Think was the stadium, Yeah, in a stadium. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.320 Yeah, it was pretty funny, like we were just really 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:54.479 it was really fucking. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.640 Hot that day, like boiling hot. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.480 And then Gus the bass player, just turned bright red 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.440 because it was so boiling and the stadium was pretty 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.760 much empty. Bike was still had a good time, went 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.840 pretty open to everything as well, Like even though we'll 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.680 just say yes to my ship just to try it 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.680 out of you know, experience, I think I'll see what happens, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.320 and you know, I wouldn't like store. Actually, like we're 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.880 not like few are or anythink in any capacity. We're 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.200 just rolling with it. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.480 Yeah, you've got you've got to take those moments. I 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.000 remember when Sleep of Modds, who I know you're a 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.520 fan of and have collaborated with, they supported the Stone 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:32.280 Roses here in like in Wembley Stadium, like our biggest stadium, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.280 and I remember thinking just how cool it was. Because 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.120 what I also love about Sleep and Modds is how 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:41.920 they Jason and Andrew have this rule where they are 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.600 determined to not change anything about the way they do it. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.080 They'll happily do it in the biggest stadium or in 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.840 a small pub, but it's still going to be the 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.560 two of them. They don't like having a backdrop with 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.240 their name on it. They've got these certain things that 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.240 they're like, we're not doing those things, but we're still 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.880 play apps. And I loved the idea of them pushing 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.640 what they do exactly as they do it as far 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:06.880 as it possibly can go. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.280 Yeah, that's so dad. Boundaries are sick like that as well. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.520 It kind of just it reminds everyone. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.040 That it's just music, like a music like you should 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:15.879 just as long as. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.520 You can listen to it. It doesn't really matter. It 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.000 shouldn't matter. It puts the pressure back on the music 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.920 to be good and enjoyable and entertaining in itself, really, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:23.600 which is sick. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.399 So how did that? How did that first Food Fighters 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.520 show go? Was it weird? Was it weird? 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:29.920 Oh? 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.879 It was weird ass. Yeah, it was really weird. We 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.800 had no idea what was going on. It was pretty 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.679 fun though, Like it was fucking weird ass. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.639 But yeah, I can't even remember or explain it, but 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.560 I remember there was this like boxer there called Danny Green, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.800 and he pointed to me and declan and like kind 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.800 of pointed at his ears and then gave a dumb 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.840