Heroes don’t wear capes. But they do sometimes wield a microphone and twiddle knobs on vintage hardware.
Before a packed house at The Forge in Sheffield, England on the weekend, Fred Again and Amy Taylor, singer with Amyl And The Sniffers, gave us the Anglo-Australian collaboration that we absolutely need, but didn’t realize was possible.
Fred Again welcomed Taylor on stage during his set late Saturday, maybe early Sunday, where they debuted a full remix of the Australian punk rock outfit’s “Big Dreams”, from their third and latest studio album Cartoon Darkness.
The reimagined cut is part of Fred Again’s ongoing USB project, and was performed to a sweaty, heaving crowd on the eve of the Aussie act’s typically incendiary spot at Leeds Festival.
Fred Again shared the moment on his social media accounts. In the footage, Fred first, then Amy, step onto the mixing desk and hype the crowd with air-punches. “This is footage of me witnessing the degree of icon that amyl is,” he writes, “she’s playing Leeds today so joined us in Sheffield last night. yesterday was the first time we got to meet and then we play this out for the first time. cannot waitttt to get to play it live with the full band and everything.”
Amyl And The Sniffers have been making friends everywhere in recent years, and collected awards left and right. Among the most glittering of honors, the 2025 APRA Award for song of the year (“U Should Not Be Doing That”), a hattrick of AIR Awards, and a brace at the 2025 Rolling Stone Australia Awards.
Although they were pipped to the post in the international category at the 2025 Brit Awards, winners D.C. Fontaines gave the Aussies a special shout out.
“Amyl and the Sniffers,” frontman Grian Chatten said during his acceptance speech, “if you’re there, we’re sorry we’re not having a drink with you. You’re one of the most inspiring bands in the world at the moment. This is for all of us.”
Released last October, Cartoon Darkness hit the top 10 in the UK (No. 9) and Australia (No. 2), and impacted the Billboard 200 (No. 196).
Fred Again, one of the world’s most in-demand electronic music producers and DJs, cracked the top 40 on the Billboard 200 with his last full-length album, Actual Life 3, a recording that peaked at No. 27 in 2022.
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