Amyl and The Sniffers have announced their largest headline show to date, set to take place at London’s iconic Alexandra Palace on 15th November 2025. This highly anticipated performance follows a successful UK tour and the release of their upcoming third album Cartoon Darkness, which will debut on 25th October 2024. The announcement arrives in the midst of the band’s rapidly sold-out UK tour in support of Cartoon Darkness, which includes dates in major cities like Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, and London.
The Alexandra Palace show comes in response “to high demand”, the band wrote on its Instagram, and is set to be the group’s only UK headline gig of 2025 – and their biggest crowd – along with their scheduled appearance at Finsbury Park in July, where they will support Fontaines D.C.
With a 10,000-capacity, the venue solidifies the band’s rise from underground punk beginnings to major international stardom. Tickets for the Alexandra Palace show will be available for purchase starting 18th October.
Cartoon Darkness comes three years after their second album Comfort To Me (2021), a record that helped further cement the band’s status in the global punk scene. The new album, according to frontwoman Amy Taylor, takes a darker, more introspective approach, inspired by contemporary political and social tensions. In a recent interview, Taylor described the album as addressing “climate crisis, war, AI,” and “people feeling like they’re helping by having a voice online when we’re all just feeding the data beast of Big Tech.” The record is produced by Nick Launay, who has worked with post-punk legends such as Public Image Ltd. and Gang of Four.
Taylor has become a distinctive voice in modern punk, often using her platform to critique Australian and global politics. On Comfort To Me, she tackled issues like governmental neglect and societal inequality, criticising former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s handling of the country’s bushfire crisis and his failure to address Indigenous concerns.
The band’s rapid rise has been marked by a consistent refusal to be pigeonholed into any particular genre. While rooted in punk, they have also drawn on influences from pub rock and post-punk, with songs like ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ from Comfort To Me speaking to their defiance of musical categorisation. Reviews of Comfort To Me highlighted the band’s growing versatility, with NME praising it as proof that there is “far more to them” than just pub rock, while also acknowledging the album’s “stronger seam of politicised anger” compared to previous works.
