Amyl And The Sniffers, Sigrid among first wave for Øya Festival 2023


Photo of Amyl And The Sniffers live in November 2022 at the York Hall, Bethnal Green (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)

Amyl And The Sniffers live in November 2022 at the York Hall, Bethnal Green (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)

Amyl And The Sniffers will be in Oslo between August 8th-12th.

Sigrid, FKA Twigs and Caroline Polachek are on the first wave of artists for Øya Festival 2023.

Amyl And Sniffers are due there too, in the process taking their 2021 album Comfort To Me into a second round of European festivals.




“Germaine Greer this isn’t, but the points are made succinctly and the band’s self-assessment of their enhanced proficiency is also smart and correct; Freaks To The Front is a raucous, two note stomp imbued with West Coast hardcore muscle, Don’t Fence Me In has a crotch grabbing, eyebrow shaving guitar solo and Don’t Need A Cunt (Like You To Love Me) is potty-mouthed pub rock with the ghost of Lemmy smiling down in approval from rock n’ roll nirvana,” our review reads.

“If this lairy obsession with being provocative has been very much the quartet’s MO to date, there are signs that what could loosely be called finesse has burrowed its way in as well. Opener Guided By Angels is expansive both lyrically and musically on their deliberately roughneck past, the mental strictures of having life controlled by authority chafing more on them than others.”


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