Amyl & The Sniffers at Reading 2025 on freedom of speech and Fontaines D.C.

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NME sits down with half of Amyl & The Sniffers backstage at Reading 2025 to talk about speaking up, touring with Fontaines D.C., new music and plans for their huge London Alexandra Palace show

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00:00Hi, I'm Andrew Trendle. You're watching NME. We are on the final day of Reading Festival 2025 with Amalyn the Sniffers.

00:13G'day. Hello. Hello. Are you okay sharing that mic? Absolutely. Yes. I share everything. Yes.

00:20Everything. What's it like on the tour bus? Do you guys quite, is it quite like packed in in there?

00:25It's nice. We got a nice lounge. We're really, really happy with the couches on the on the lounge.

00:32They sort of like rise up in the corner. Yeah. So you can sort of like lean.

00:37The lights only stay blue in the lounge though. That's my qualm.

00:41It's a bit porn movie. Yeah.

00:43But do you find like with each album does the tour bus get a little bit more decadent, a little bit more bougie?

00:48I can't remember the last album.

00:52No, we're getting nicer. We sort of have like a different one every time.

00:56But on the last tour I found out that you could get like a, we could get a graphic attached to the bus.

01:02Oh wow. We could get like a band logo or something. Yeah, like a wrap.

01:06What did you go for? Well, we haven't done it yet.

01:08A puma? The first thing that everyone, well the first thing you'd think would be that we get an Amalyn the Sniffers one.

01:13But then we don't want everyone to know that it's Amalyn the Sniffers bus. Yeah.

01:16So maybe we could get like Oasis or something like that. Bastille or something like that.

01:19Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mastodon.

01:22But, so it's the last day of Reading, which means you've already smashed Leeds Festival, right? How did it go?

01:27It was good. Yeah, real fun. Good crowd. Yeah, no complaints.

01:31They're quite feral in Yorkshire, right?

01:33Yeah, that's what they say.

01:35But you guys are Reading and Leeds veterans?

01:38No.

01:39This is your first time?

01:40This is our first time in Reading.

01:42It's our first time at the Reading and Leeds Festival.

01:45We've played Leeds before. I've no idea where Reading is.

01:48Where it's...

01:50It's like west of London?

01:51Not London, but basically London.

01:52Yeah, right, right. There you go. Yeah.

01:54Never been here before. I've heard a lot about it.

01:57But have you explored? Have you tried some of the famous Reading and Leeds cuisine?

02:01No. Well, we tried the catering. Did you have lunch?

02:04I haven't had lunch today, no.

02:05In Leeds we got those chicken wings.

02:08Really good desserts.

02:10You've never had a giant Yorkshire pudding?

02:12Have you?

02:13I have, yeah. So good. Love that.

02:14Love, love, love, love.

02:16They get a bad rap sometimes.

02:18What's the egg that we were always having at Ross' place?

02:22Scotch egg.

02:23Is that a Yorkshire thing?

02:25Maybe a Scottish.

02:26Ant is on a postcard. Where does the Scotch egg hail from?

02:29He was eating them a lot. So it made me think they were from Yorkshire.

02:33But it's been an amazing summer for you guys.

02:36You smashed Glastonbury.

02:37I saw you guys at the Finsbury Park Fontaines DC show.

02:43Long summer. How's it been?

02:45Yeah, it's been... Long is a good description for it.

02:48You know, we had some illness on that tour.

02:50But yeah, we got through in the end because we're professionals.

02:54And now we're here still being professionals. It's good.

02:56Yeah.

02:57What I really liked about the Fontaines DC Finsbury Park show was just like the solidarity from like one act to another.

03:03For like for kneecap, there was Bob Villan in the crowd. There was, you know, every act took the time to like, you know, speak their truth.

03:09And you guys have always been really good at speaking your truth and speaking your mind.

03:14But I'm just wondering if like with everything that's going on, have you found much resistance at the moment?

03:18Because some bands are, some bands aren't. But how's it been for you?

03:21Um, no, it's been it's been good for us.

03:23I think like we're really lucky that our fans are all very compassionate people is what I find.

03:29And, you know, we all care about everything that's going on in the world.

03:34And geez, there's a lot. So I'm not going to list it all.

03:37But yeah, we'll see. I mean, we go to Berlin in two days.

03:40So, oh, yeah, they're quite strict there. Yeah, we'll see.

03:44But you haven't had like the man saying, don't say this, don't say that. Just like crack on.

03:48Um, you know, I managed to say that when we have like our visa applications pending.

03:52We got them approved.

03:54And what's it like backstage with Fontaines DC?

03:58Does it get Larry or are they just like reading Ulysses?

04:01Um, yeah, like we got wild.

04:04We did for them.

04:06Yeah, we did for them on their behalf. That was a big day for them, you know.

04:09So they're all on their best behavior.

04:11But yeah, no, they're lovely guys.

04:13We get to do a few festivals with them that tour.

04:16So, yeah, it was nice. But yeah, we do all the partying for them.

04:20You said you got Berlin coming up.

04:21Then from the Googling I've done, you've got a bit of a break.

04:25Kind of.

04:26And then back for Ali Pali.

04:28Yeah, Ali Pali. Yep. October 25th.

04:30But that's huge, man. I mean, Ali Pali.

04:32I think recently I've seen like Iggy Pop and people like that there.

04:36I mean, any plans to kind of pull out the stops and make like,

04:40do you feel the pressure of it being the biggest animal show?

04:42Or are you just going to show up and is it just another gig?

04:45Yeah, I'm sure there's pressure on us.

04:47I mean, we don't really know what to do when it's the biggest one ever.

04:50We don't know what to do.

04:51Earlier this year, we did Sydney Mine Music Bowl in Melbourne.

04:55Yeah, how many is that?

04:56That was, we did 9,000 there.

04:58Wow.

04:59And that was the thing.

05:00It was like, you want to do anything special?

05:01I don't know.

05:02I don't know.

05:03You know.

05:04Yeah.

05:05If you want to get a thrust in, we'll get a thrust in.

05:07I don't know.

05:08Yeah, we'll get a big LED screen.

05:09We can play the darts.

05:10But yeah, it should be good.

05:12I've never been to a gig.

05:13None of us have been to a gig at Ali Pali before.

05:15We've played Jules Holland there, but we only watched the darts there.

05:19We're going to hit a bullseye.

05:21Yeah.

05:22We're going to give everyone a dart and they can throw it whenever they want during the

05:27show at us.

05:28Put a big dart board on your head.

05:31Selfish question given that 2025 has already been such a huge year for you guys given,

05:36you know, playing off the back of an amazing album, all these huge shows.

05:39What does 2026 have in store?

05:40Do you think new album time or hibernation or just playing until you die?

05:45Yeah, we'll be hibernating, doing new album stuff.

05:49We have our 10th, it'll be our 10th birthday in February.

05:52Wow.

05:53In 2026.

05:54I don't know.

05:55Do you want to do a birthday party?

05:56Yeah, I want a birthday party.

05:57Yeah.

05:58What does an animal birthday party look like?

06:00Cake.

06:01We love cake.

06:04And partying, a little bit, you know, a kick-ons, there'll be a kick-ons.

06:11Maybe a bit of drama.

06:13Someone will kiss someone they're not meant to.

06:15I don't know.

06:16Might kiss Bryce.

06:17We'll see.

06:20Kiss, go on.

06:21No, no.

06:22And finally, what's the first thing you're going to do after this interview?

06:27Go to another interview.

06:29Oh, and after that?

06:30After that?

06:31What do you want to do?

06:32I don't know.

06:33What do you want to do?

06:34Do you want to play?

06:35Yeah, we'll play a gig.

06:36Are you going to stick around and watch Travis Scott?

06:37Who was playing today?

06:38Trippie Redd.

06:39We saw Trippie Redd on Friday.

06:41He's rich.

06:42That's what I heard.

06:43Oh really?

06:44In his lyrics.

06:45Landon Zatanna, Trippie Redd.

06:46Yeah, yeah.

06:47And Travis Scott, I'm definitely watching tonight.

06:50We were on the bus when he played on Friday and the pyrotechnics was insane.

06:55Yeah.

06:56From the bus.

06:57So I want to watch it from the front of the house.

06:58I hear the pit gets pretty crazy as well.

07:00Really?

07:01There you go.

07:02Me?

07:03No, I haven't pitted in about seven years.

07:05Pit a bloody olive.

07:07You won't see me in a mosh pit.

07:10That's such a good night to win.

07:12Guys, thank you so much for your time.

07:13Thanks Andrew.

07:14Thanks guys.

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07:18We are out here.

07:19We're you ready.

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