Who'd have thought one of the most hyped acts post-Great Escape 2018 would be an Australian punk band with mullets named after a recreational drug? Not Amyl and the Sniffers, that's for sure. Catching up with them before their sold-out show at the Lexington, they seem as bewildered as they are excited by all of the attention.
There's a sense from Amy and Gus, the bassist, that they probably don't sleep all that much. This is all but confirmed when they're asked if they've had any time between shows to explore England on their first ever visit. "Oh, Gus has done heaps of culture vulture stuff," laughs Amy, urging: "Tell them about the skulls!"
Not exactly your average tourist experience, but then it's doubtful whether the loud-mouthed Australians who joke about each other's buttholes on stage would fit in at the National Gallery, so it's probably for the best.
So how is London measuring up against their hometowns? "Well, we're all from different places," Amy says. "I'm from a small town called Mullumbimby, a little hippy town that my parents moved to when they were younger. Iggy Azalea's from there though, I went to her high school, and her mum was my soccer coach," she laughs, clearly aware that Azalea and the Sniffers don't have all that much in common.
