‘If you don’t have haters,you ain’t doing it’:How Amyl and the Sniffers became our biggest and brashest export

‘If you don’t have haters,you ain’t doing it’:How Amyl and the Sniffers became our biggest and brashest export

The band’s last two albums won them ARIA awards and global acclaim. Now they’re battling naysayers and the pitfalls of success.

  • byBrodie Lancaster

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