Amyl and The Sniffers and Lambrini Girls at White Eagle Hall
On Saturday, July 20, 2024, Amyl and The Sniffers kicked off their headlining US tour with a sold out show at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, NJ. This was the first time the Australian quartet performed in Jersey City and were joined by UK punks, Lambrini Girls.
Named after an alcoholic drink (Americans, remember Zima? Well, it’s like that), the band led by vocalist/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez promptly began their fiery set at 8PM. About midway during their performance, I began to regret missing their headline set the previous night at the smaller space The Sultan Room in Brooklyn. Both Lunny and Macieria addressed things such as the genocide occurring in Palestine (and leading a Free Palestine chant), sexism, while the duo occasionally performing in the audience and Phoebe sporting a hat that read “Fuck TERFS” which was the band was selling at their merch table. Their set felt all too short and after they were done, my husband accurately remarked, “are they aware they’re not the headliners?”
Up next were the actual headliners, Melbourne’s Amyl and the Sniffers, who are touring in support of their newest release, two new songs, “U Should Not Be Doing That” (played during their encore), and “Facts”(which was performed prior to the encore). The band spent the previous night opening for The Foo Fighters and switched to closing the show less than 24 hours later. Their setlist reflected their catalog and many songs felt like giant singalongs between Amy and the crowd. The only downside of the show was an incident that happened near us between a concertgoer and security which diverted our attention from the band, making us miss a favorite song “Snakes,” where the concertgoer was finally ejected from the show by security (but not before he attacked a security guard first).
This was my first time seeing Amyl since their 2022 Brooklyn Steel show and my first time returning to White Eagle Hall since Mitski’s 2017 show and I left the venue feeling grateful that I hitched a ride to NJ last night and bought a ticket to attend this show when they went on sale back at the end of March. Photos that were taken with my point and shoot camera can be found in the above gallery.